The baseej, Iran's thuggish militia, were less impressed. They arrested him and dragged him away to a local clerical court, on the grounds that his sprouting hairdo was a dangerous Western import.

Baseej Commander Gen. Naqdi: With conflicting accounts of what happened in Lausanne, someone must be lying . I hope it is the Americans! — Amir Taheri (@AmirTaheri4) April 7, 2015.

Now think of what this foretells: a baseej is cornered, switches sides and is carried aloft in the streets triumphantly. Unfortunately, that doesn't say much to me. That says that a man was ...

Are Some Baseej Defecting? By The Daily Dish. December 27, 2009. Share. Save. That seems to be what is happening in this clip. My previous interpretation has been challenged by several readers.

“We honour and thank the people of Iran and especially the hackers. Baseej have guns we have brains.” “Persiankiwi“, a blogger who has posted a stream of messages about the Iranian ...

Indeed, Hamid Reza Mazaheri-Seif, head of the Spiritual Health Institute in Qom, said that yoga’s new-age spiritualism was corrupting Islam and urged all decent Iranians, particularly members of ...