Basij

Basij
Basij
Motto	"20,000,000 man army"
Formation	26 November 1979; 46 years ago (decreed); 30 April 1980; 46 years ago (founded)
Type	Paramilitary volunteer militia
Purpose/focus	Auxiliaries
Commander	Brig. Gen. Gholamreza Soleimani
Parent organization	None (1980–81); Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (since 1981)
Budget	$357.08 million
Website	basij.ir

The Basij (Persian: بسيجcode: fa is deprecated , lit. "The Mobilization"), Niru-ye Moghāvemat-e Basij (Persian: نیروی مقاومت بسیجcode: fa is deprecated , "Mobilisation Resistance Force"), full name Sāzmān-e Basij-e Mostaz'afin (Persian: سازمان بسیج مستضعفینcode: fa is deprecated , "The Organization for Mobilization of the Oppressed"),^[2]^[3] is one of the five forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).^[4]

References

↑ Iran decreases IRGC budget for next year. AzerNews Newspaper (18 January 2016). Retrieved 30 March 2016.
↑ John Pike. GlobalSecurity.org Intelligence: Mobilisation Resistance Force. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
↑ AEI Outlook Series: What Do Structural Changes in the Revolutionary Guards Mean? Archived 27 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Forozan, Hesam. The Military in Post-Revolutionary Iran: The Evolution and Roles of the Revolutionary Guards (2015)Taylor & Francis. p. 56–58. ISBN 978-1317430735.

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[1] Iran decreases IRGC budget for next year. AzerNews Newspaper (18 January 2016). Retrieved 30 March 2016.

[GlobSecNiruy-2] John Pike. GlobalSecurity.org Intelligence: Mobilisation Resistance Force. Retrieved 10 November 2014.

[3] AEI Outlook Series: What Do Structural Changes in the Revolutionary Guards Mean? Archived 27 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[4] Forozan, Hesam. The Military in Post-Revolutionary Iran: The Evolution and Roles of the Revolutionary Guards (2015)Taylor & Francis. p. 56–58. ISBN 978-1317430735.

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