Basij militia to enhance Iranian defense

Middle East Newsline ^ | 2005 Oct 21

[Wiz]

NICOSIA [MENL] -- Iran has disclosed a plan to create a huge Islamic volunteer force to protect the regime from any Israeli or U.S. attack.

Iranian officials said supreme leader Ali Khamenei has approved a plan to greatly expand the regime-sponsored Basij militia. Under the plan, the Basij, which began as a volunteer movement, would essentially turn into Iran's third military ground force.

Under the plan, the Basij would have more than 1 million men under arms. The force would be deployed both along Iran's long borders with Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey as well as in major cities.

[CondorFlight]

Remember the mullahs did the same thing during the war with Iraq.
They mobilized eight-year-old boys, gave them plastic gold keys, told them these were the keys to paradise which they deserved for being martyrs; and sent them off to clear minefields by running through them until the mines exploded.

They were also given notebooks in which to write what they wanted to receive in paradise; they wrote pathetic things, like, "a pair of blue jeans".

If you ask for a reason to hate Islam, there it is.

[Wiz]

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[rlmorel]

I agree. But if it came down to that (and I hope it doesn't) it isn't anything some B-52's or B-1's couldn't whittle down to size.

This is just more bluster.

I would hope the Iranian people would finally tell their leadership to shove it before it came to that.