The Observers - Members of Iran’s Basij militia mount online intimidation campaign to deter protests
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“Members of Iran’s Basij militia mount online intimidation campaign to deter protests”
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“Heavily armed and dressed in camouflage, members of Iran's Basij paramilitary force have been circulating photos of themselves patrolling the streets of Tehran with portraits of the new supreme leader since early March”
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“Members of the Basij – the paramilitary branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards – are posing in the streets of Tehran, holding photos of the country’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei”
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“They have been posting images like these on social media since March 8, when Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen to succeed his father, killed in a US-Israeli airstrike”
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“The aim is to show that Iran’s security forces are ready to resume their brutal repression of protests”
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“The security forces still have weapons in their hands, and the situation is not yet one where people feel they can overcome them. They are ready to shoot and kill”
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“Iranian authorities have also organised pro-regime rallies – another way to occupy the public space and deter any anti-regime protests”
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“The war started with the idea that the US and Israel were coming to support the Iranian people”
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“The regime has already weakened significantly and they're still executing people”
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