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BREAKING 5: IDF has also confirmed assassinations of Basij national leader and his deputy who wer hiding in a tent to avoid attacks on their HQs
@jeremybob1 ^ | Mar 17, 2026

Posted on 03/17/2026 4:52:50 AM PDT by Milagros

BREAKING 5: IDF has also confirmed assassinations of Basij national leader and his deputy who wer hiding in a tent to avoid attacks on their HQs. The Basij are possibly the worst. Literally hooligans hired for 1 purpose: to beat and kill their own people.


TOPICS: Iran; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: elimination; epicfury; ramadan; roaringlion
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Israel's Roaring Lion in action. Tehran’s Iron Grip Shattered: Top Basij Leadership Eliminated in Daring Nighttime Raid. An Israeli precision strike has reportedly wiped out the Basij high command during a secret meeting at a makeshift tent complex. Military officials confirm the elimination of the Basij chief and dozens of regional commanders who were hiding in the desert to avoid assassination. Bianca Jones. Mar 17, 2026 05:35 https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/basij-paramilitary-force
1 posted on 03/17/2026 4:52:50 AM PDT by Milagros
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To: Milagros
Amir Tsarfati news feed about 47 minutes ago:


The IDF elimanted Ali Larijani - the de facto leader of the Iranian terror regime -   The IDF announces that yester...



The IDF elimanted Ali Larijani - the de facto leader of the Iranian terror regime
The IDF announces that yesterday, March 17, 2026, the Israeli Air Force, acting on IDF intelligence, and through the integration of unique operational capabilities, conducted a precise strike that eliminated Ali Larijani, the Secretary of Iranian Supreme National Security Council, who operated as the de facto leader of the Iranian terror regime. The strike was conducted while he was located near Tehran.Throughout the years, Larijani was considered one of the most veteran and senior figures within the Iranian regime leadership, and was a close associate of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.Following the elimination of Khamenei, Larijani consolidated his status as the de facto leader of the Iranian regime and led the combat efforts against the State of Israel and countries across the region.As a part of his role, Larijani led the regime’s national-security coordination and directed its international activity, including engagement with members of the axis.During the most recent wave of protests against the Iranian terror regime, Larijani advanced violent enforcement measures and repression operations, and personally oversaw the massacre that was carried out against Iranian protestors. His elimination adds to the elimination of dozens of senior commanders and leaders of the Iranian terror regime, who were eliminated by the IDF during Operation Roaring Lion, and constitutes a further blow to the Iranian regime’s abilities to manage and coordinate hostile activity against the State of Israel.

t.me
47m
2 posted on 03/17/2026 4:55:37 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Milagros

Ali Larijani has reported to be eliminated as well.


3 posted on 03/17/2026 4:56:22 AM PDT by Nifty
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To: Milagros

Why do they call it “assignation”
In the headline. Its war, Iran started it 47 years ago and hasn’t stopped.


4 posted on 03/17/2026 4:56:37 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Milagros; af_vet_1981

I love good news in the morning!


5 posted on 03/17/2026 4:56:50 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: Milagros

…real good! Any more volunteers wanna step up to the plate?


6 posted on 03/17/2026 4:59:24 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Milagros

So much for them bomb-proof tents.

CC


7 posted on 03/17/2026 5:01:00 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Yup


8 posted on 03/17/2026 5:01:30 AM PDT by Milagros
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RELATED:::

What we know about the Basij, the shadowy paramilitary volunteers arresting and killing civilians in Iran’s protest crackdown.
By Daniel Jeffrey.
2:05pm Jan 15, 2026
[...]
What is the Basij?
Established in 1979 as Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for a “20 million army” to defend the revolution, in 1981 it was incorporated into the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), which Australia listed as a state sponsor of terrorism last year.
Initially, its members were deployed in the Iran-Iraq War, suffering heavy casualties as they were used in human wave attacks designed to overwhelm enemy troops and minefields through sheer weight of numbers.
Reports vary as to whether the organisation was disbanded following the war and revived in later decades or continued uninterrupted, but the ultimate outcome is the same: today, the Basij is predominantly focused on domestic societal control.
Estimates on the number of members vary.
In 2022, when the Basij was involved in the crackdown on the protests in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death, Reuters put the figure at 1 million active members, and potentially millions more overall volunteers.

How does the Basij respond to protests?
According to the US-based thinktank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Basij is one of three Iranian organisations typically tasked with restraining protests, alongside the Law Enforcement Command (LEC) – the country’s national police force – and the wider IRGC.
The paramilitary force was particularly noticeable in the response to protests over the 2009 presidential election, as well as in major demonstrations in both 2017-18 and 2022.
During the latter, an Amnesty International report detailed how Basij agents disguised themselves in the crowds, before breaking cover to assault protesters with batons, stun guns and rifle butts, and arrest them.
That Amnesty report also outlined how sexual violence was used by Iranian security forces, including the Basij.

Agents repeatedly took [a protester] and the other women into different rooms for 15-30 minutes at a time to rape them and then throw them out into the hall in a degrading manner when they had finished with them,” a mental health worker who treated several survivors said in the report.
“She said the rape was systematic, that it was very clear they knew what they were doing, as if they had planned this,” the health worker added.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/iran-protests-update-basij-paramilitary-force-crackdown-explained/23fa8255-d14f-499d-8171-a05a6cc556c9

(HOW TO IDENTIFY A BASIJ?
History News Network. June 22, 2009.
The basij are a mixture youth movement (like the infamous Hitler youth) and thugs.
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/blog/93912)


9 posted on 03/17/2026 5:01:43 AM PDT by Milagros
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To: af_vet_1981

Good riddance


10 posted on 03/17/2026 5:02:15 AM PDT by Milagros
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To: Milagros

If true regarding the tents in the desert, it means the Israeli spies are everywhere.


11 posted on 03/17/2026 5:06:36 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

They’ll NEVER find me out here in the middle of nowhere.


12 posted on 03/17/2026 5:08:11 AM PDT by OKSooner (Susie might be Rasputin.)
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To: Milagros

Well done (in both ways).


13 posted on 03/17/2026 5:08:45 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Milagros

Lots of job openings in Iran these days....


14 posted on 03/17/2026 5:10:22 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (AOC for President, 2028. And don't forget to detoxify your liver.)
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To: Milagros

I’d guess the Basij are also the biggest cowards too - tough when the regime was behind them, squealing p*ssies otherwise.


15 posted on 03/17/2026 5:11:30 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
And, from Amir Tsarfati news feed:


IDF Chief of Staff: "In recent days, foreign elements connected to the Palestinian arena have been eliminated in Iran"
These are senior figures involved in terrorist activities from Gaza and Judea and Samaria, who were hiding in a safe house.

t.me
2h
16 posted on 03/17/2026 5:13:38 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

These people all need to be identified and dealt with. The do-gooders who think they’re entitled to due process will make consolidation of power impossible. History dictates that they must all be killed in a quick and ruthless manner. The new rulers will be forgiven as long as it doesn’t drag on.


17 posted on 03/17/2026 5:15:19 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (Curt)
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A ‘tent’??? Hmmmm... must’s been one of these

img src =”https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.-2OWtnNHkJvCjqiOCU9F4AHaFj?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3” />


18 posted on 03/17/2026 5:17:15 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Milagros

Basij forces number an estimated 175,000.
That’s on top of the Iranian army which is estimated at 600,000.


19 posted on 03/17/2026 5:18:55 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: Pete Dovgan

I noticed that first off as well… But they’ll call the absolute assassination of Charlie Kirk anything but


20 posted on 03/17/2026 5:19:04 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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