Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed the need for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC ...

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 ...

Citing a report by rights group Amnesty International CNN reported that child detainees in Iran face severe torture and ...

“Basij agents forced ... In response, Iranian forces conducted a fresh wave of nationwide arrests. Iran’s judiciary head Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi announced on Monday that the country’s Supreme ...

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 ...

Amid renewed protests six months into the unrest, the Iranian establishment's heavy-handed response appeared to have failed ...

Worried parents protested in Iran's capital Tehran and other cities on Saturday over a wave of suspected poison attacks that ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Protests broke out across Iran on Thursday ... by security forces spearheaded by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its militia Basij.

Iran's interior minister ... video verified by Reuters. "Basij, Guards, you are our Daesh," protesters chanted, likening the Revolutionary Guards and other security forces to the Islamic State ...

The Iranian Azerbaijani people are an ethnic Turkic minority group, which constitutes close to a third of Iran’s population - ...