Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri assured that the country’s military forces are ready to safeguard the Islamic Republic, even if it means sacrificing ...
They are the Basij, Iran's volunteer paramilitary ... Guard and law enforcement forces organized their reaction. See timeline of events in Iran » While experts say there is a hardline ideological ...
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks during a meeting ... the supreme leader is empowered to command the armed forces, dismiss any elected official, countermand parliamentary ...
Authorities in Iran ... The Basij are (at least in theory) subordinate to, and receive their orders from, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, to whom ...
The London-based organization says Iranian intelligence and security forces used brutal torture methods against children as ...
Citing a report by rights group Amnesty International CNN reported that child detainees in Iran face severe torture and ...
An informed source attributed the sound of an explosion heard by the residents of Karaj in northern Iran on Thursday night to a nocturnal military exercise performed by the Basij forces.
Iranian security forces re-arrested prominent activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian hours after she walked free from jail chanting slogans against supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...
DUBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Monday ... of this crime should be severely punished," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying by state media. Over a thousand Iranian ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called the wave of suspected ... a woman in the northern city of Rasht said security forces had fired tear-gas at concerned mothers protesting ...
