Iran's Basij Islamist Militia Called out to Protect the Regime.....
And they better not catch you banging your neighbors goat....
TEHRAN (AFP) - The Islamist Basij militia is to start patrolling streets in urban areas across Iranto try to curb security threats, a Basij commander was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
"Upon people's request and due to the social circumstances, we will launch patrols in different neighbourhoods and towns from May 23," Fars news agency quoted the Basij commander of operations, Ahmad Zolqadr, as saying.
The decision comes after a deadly mosque blast in the southern city of Shiraz that killed 13 people and injured more than 200 in mid-April.
"Such operations are aimed at creating insecurity in Iran but with the presence of Basji patrols they will get a decisive response," vowed the commander, echoing allegations of US involvement in the Shiraz blast.
Basij is a volunteer militia attached to Iran's elite ideological army, the Revolutionary Guards Corps, which defends the Islamic republic against foreign and domestic threat.
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