ground forces based across Iran’s 31 provinces and Tehran, which number more than 150,000 troops; the Basij paramilitary ... is still superseded by that of Khamenei, with whom the IRGC shares ...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the head of state of Iran and commander in chief of its armed forces. After Israel ... emergence of factional blocs like the Basij-style militias, and marginal groups ...
Iran has launched ... police. Ali Khamenei also administers the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), which is in charge of internal security, and its volunteer branch, the Basij Resistance ...
but Khamenei claimed victory and tried to give it a patriotic color. “What matters most,” he said, “is the emergence of the will of the Iranian nation and Iran’s military forces in an ...
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards ... and provide a counterweight to the regular armed forces. It answers to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The IRGC has an estimated 125,000-strong ...
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force, as they hold posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and Iranian and Palestinian flags in an anti-Israeli gathering after Friday ...
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was formed to defend the regime from internal dissent and balance the power of the formerly royalist armed forces ... Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...
April 13 (Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary ... a counterweight to the regular armed forces. It answers to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The IRGC has an estimated 125,000-strong ...
The IRGC was introduced to provide extra protection for the new regime and to act as a counterweight to the regular armed forces. It answers to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
FILE - Iranian worshippers walk past a mural showing the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force ...