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	Qods (Jerusalem) Force, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC - Pasdaran) Iran Intelligence Agencies
		Established under a decree issued by Khomeini on May 5, 1979, the Pasdaran was intended to guard the Revolution and to assist the ruling clerics in the day-to-day enforcement of the government's Islamic codes and morality.
		By 1986 the Pasdaran consisted of 350,000 personnel organized in battalion-size units that operated either independently or with units of the regular armed forces.
		The Pasdaran has contacts with underground movements in the Gulf region, and Pasdaran members are assigned to Iranian diplomatic missions, where, in the course of routine intelligence activities they monitor dissidents.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/iran/qods (922 words)

	Pasdaran
		The Pasdaran was intended to protect the Revolution and to assist the ruling clerics in the day-to-day enforcement of the new government's Islamic codes and morality.
		The Pasdaran, under the guidance of such clerics as Lahuti and Hashemi-Rafsanjani, was also "to act as the eyes and ears of the Islamic Revolution" and as a special task force of the Imam Khomeini to crush any counterrevolutionary activities within the government or any political usurper against the Islamic Government.
		In contrast to the Pasdaran, which had a primary responsibility for upholding the Revolution, the major concern of the Iranian military was the prosecution of the war with Iraq.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iran/pasdaran.htm (1723 words)

	Pasdaran - Risultati della ricerca - MSN Encarta
		Pasdaran - Risultati della ricerca - MSN Encarta
		Pasdaran Componenti gli speciali corpi volontari d'assalto istituiti in Iran dopo l'avvento al potere dell'ayatollah Khomeini (1979) con il compito...
		Dal 1982 iniziò una guerra di logoramento, dalle caratteristiche analoghe a quelle della prima guerra mondiale, con i due eserciti attestati lungo le...
	it.encarta.msn.com /Pasdaran.html (51 words)

	Pasdaran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The old name for this road was "Saltanat Abad", which means "kingdom land", and refers to the palace of the Shah (the last king of Iran), situated at the top of this street.
		The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or Pasdaran is a paramilitary organization established in Iran after the 1979 Revolution as a counter to the power of the regular military.
		It was established by a decree of Ayatollah Khomeini on May 5, 1979.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pasdaran (123 words)

	Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Established under a decree issued by Khomeini on May 5, 1979, the Pasdaran was intended to guard the Revolution and to assist the ruling clerics in the day-to-day enforcement of the government's Islamic codes and morality.
		By 1986, the Pasdaran consisted of 350,000 personnel organized in battalion-size units that operated either independently or with units of the regular armed forces.
		The Pasdaran has contacts with underground movements in the Gulf region, and Pasdaran members are assigned to Iranian diplomatic missions, where, in the course of routine intelligence activities they monitor dissidents.
	www.meta-religion.com /Extremism/Islamic_extremism/irgc.htm (851 words)

	PASDARAN MENACE PRESIDENT AND REFORMISTS WITH A COUP
		Iranian political analyst and observers immediately interpreted the unprecedented declaration to a "rampant military coup" aimed at annulling the recently held Majles (parliament) elections that was swept by the reformists.
		Investigations carried by the independent press revealed that the terror team belong to the Pasdarans Intelligence section led by Revolutionary Guard General Mohammad Reza Zolqadr while the conservatives say the killers are from the reformists and consequently, arrested Friday Mr.
		One wrong move and the Pasdaran could go into operation, declare a state of emergency, striking thunder-like at the moderates, without exception, as they have promised, that means including himself.
	www.iran-press-service.com /articles/pasdaran_coup_16400.htm (589 words)

	National Security
		Pasdaran clergy were also engaged to disseminate Islamic justice and were assigned to units of the armed forces to help communicate Khomeini's instructions and to provide religio-political indoctrination.
		Generally speaking, Pasdaran, Gendarmerie, and National Police units operating in an internal security mission, particularly against insurgents, were detached from the operational area command and subordinated to the senior Pasdaran commander in the province in which they were engaged.
		The Pasdaran was intended to protect the Revolution and to assist the ruling clerics in the day-to-day enforcement of the new government's Islamic codes and morality.
	www.parstimes.com /history/national_security.html (20325 words)

	Citizen Smash - The Indepundit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		My best guess is that the local Pasdaran forces captured these guys somewhere near the middle of the Shatt al-Arab (the official line of demarcation runs approximately through the center of the waterway), and the surprised mullahs have been trying to figure out how they can best play this to their advantage.
		The Pasdaran navy consists of several hundred small vessels, ranging from speedboats armed with machine guns and rocket launchers, to fast corvettes armed with anti-ship missiles.
		The Pasdaran are considered “guardians of the revolution,” and report directly to Iran’s ruling mullahs.
	www.lt-smash.us /archives/cat_iran.html (916 words)

	World Peace Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ahmadinejad, who won a sweeping 62 percent of the votes in Iran's presidential race, was the candidate of the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard, in which he served as a senior commander, and of the Basij security service and militia.
		The Pasdaran is the elite military force, founded by Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeni after the 1979 revolution that toppled the shah, to guarantee the Islamic regime's safety against the Iranian military which was suspect as packed with supporters or the former shah.
		The Pasdaran also provide the 50 tons of weaponry and explosives aboard the Karine-A, the Palestinian ship that was stopped by Israeli commandos before it could smuggle its deadly cargo to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
	www.wpherald.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20050625-045333-4306r (848 words)

	Iran - Operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Unverified reports have claimed that the Pasdaran has received organizational and training assistance from the PLO, but no Palestinians were known to have visited the Aliabad or other Pasdaran training grounds.
		In 1987 the Pasdaran's alleged involvement in anti-American terrorism in Lebanon remained difficult to confirm.
		The Pasdaran was also given the mandate of organizing a large people's militia, the Basij, in 1980.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-6530.html (390 words)

	Iran - The Bani Sadr Presidency
		Bani Sadr's program as president was to reestablish central authority, gradually to phase out the Pasdaran and the revolutionary courts and committees and to absorb them into other government organizations, to reduce the influence of the clerical hierarchy, and to launch a program for economic reform and development.
		Bani Sadr's appointees to head the state broadcasting services and the Pasdaran were forced to resign within weeks of their appointments.
		Ten of the alleged plotters were killed when members of the Pasdaran broke into their headquarters.
	bigboon.com /countrypages/iran/25.htm (2598 words)

	The Pasdaran’s private empires, by Jehan Lazrak
		The Pasdaran were set up by decree on 5 May 1979 as a force loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini to counterbalance the power of the regular military.
		The mission of the Pasdaran army (100,000), navy (20,000) and air force is to safeguard national security and defend the revolution.
		Since 1989 the Pasdaran, like the regular forces, have been subordinate to the ministry of defence and armed forces logistics.
	mondediplo.com /2006/12/05empires (562 words)

	Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore - In Profondità - Vanna Vannuccini:Teheran, il ritorno dei Pasdaran. Legge del Corano ...
		I pasdaran lasciano andare le straniere e fanno scendere le iraniane che a loro giudizio non sono vestite in modo conforme ai codici islamici.
		All'improvviso i pasdaran (che hanno le proprie forze di terra di mare e d'aria) hanno chiuso l'aeroporto impedendo che il primo volo di linea - un aereo degli Emirati Arabi - vi atterrasse.
		Eccone una: i pasdaran hanno bisogno dell'aeroporto per i loro traffici (era una loro società che aveva concorso con quella turca all'appalto per la gestione e aveva perso).
	www.zivago.com /FattiLibriInterna?id_fatto=3382 (1197 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Pasdaran str.''' is a road that connects Niavaran road (from the north) to Shariati road (from south).
		The old name for this road was "Saltanat Abad", which means "kingdom land", and refers to the palace of the Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the last king of Iran), situated at the top of this street.
		It was established by a decree of Ayatollah_Ruhollah_Khomeini Ayatollah Khomeini on May 5, 1979.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Pasdaran.html (160 words)

	GUARDS WARNS AGAINST PUSHING INVESTIGATIONS ON HAJJARIAN
		The statement by the Pasdaran was issued as the Intelligence Ministry was at loggerhead with the Judiciary over the handling of the terror case and was interpreted by observers to be a reaction to accusations in reformist camp concerning the participation of the Guards in the operation.
		Reminding that it was the Pasdaran that arrested the suspects, the statement called on the authorities to organise a public trial for the terrorists, demanding at the same time that all those who unjustly incriminate the Guards be also brought to justice.
		Hajjarian, the Pasdaran announced the arrest of the terrorists, without explaining how it happened that they and not the Intelligence machine or the Police arrested the culprits.
	www.iran-press-service.com /articles/hajjarian_pasdaran_5400.htm (594 words)

	Nowruz 1379: Iran at a Crossroads, The Estimate, March 24, 2000
		The Pasdaran leadership is generally supportive of the hard-liners, and last year the Guards Commander warned the media against certain types of reporting.
		If the Pasdaran and/or the security services are involved, or appear to be, then the attack may be part of a continuing pattern.
		Pasdaran and Basij vigilantes have been known to raid home suspected of having satellite dishes, for precisely that reason.
	www.theestimate.com /public/03242000.html (2581 words)

	Radical rebound in Iran - Printer Friendly Page - Iran: World Press - Iran Focus
		Moreover, because of the Pasdaran's takeover of new political posts and the rising price of oil - which has netted Iran upward of $30 billion in excess oil revenues over the past year - these elements have greater resources than ever to put their radical message into practice.
		Created by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 as a clerical counterpart to the country's standing armed forces, the Pasdaran is the Islamic Republic's principal ideological weapon.
		Since the Pasdaran serves as the regime's principal point of contact with terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, this nexus raises the alarming possibility that Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile advances could eventually translate into substantial terrorist gains.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=2570 (670 words)

	Iran Culture and Information Center
		This operation, another combined effort of the army, Pasdaran, and Basij, was a turning point in the war because the strategic initiative shifted from Iraq to Iran.
		Although Basra was within range of Iranian artillery, the clergy used "human-wave" attacks by the Pasdaran and Basij against the city's defenses, apparently waiting for a coup to topple Saddam Hussein.
		In early 1984, an estimated 500,000 Pasdaran and Basij forces, using shallow boats or on foot, moved to within a few kilometers of the strategic Basra-Baghdad waterway.
	www.iranvision.com /iraniraqwar.html (7496 words)

	History of Iran: Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988
		This operation, another combined effort of the army, Pasdaran, and Basij, was a turning point in the war because the strategic initiative shifted from Iraq to Iran.
		Although Basra was within range of Iranian artillery, the clergy used "human-wave" attacks by the Pasdaran and Basij against the city's defenses, apparently waiting for a coup to topple Saddam Hussein.
		In early 1984, an estimated 500,000 Pasdaran and Basij forces, using shallow boats or on foot, moved to within a few kilometers of the strategic Basra-Baghdad waterway.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/iran_iraq_war/iran_iraq_war2.php (2410 words)

	Iran - Lebanon
		The Pasdaran established posts in the eastern Biqa Valley and from there proselytized on behalf of Islamic revolution among poor and uprooted Shia young people.
		The support of the Pasdaran provided these groups with a direct link to Tehran, and this permitted Iran to become one of the foreign powers exerting influence in Lebanon.
		In 1987 an estimated 500 member of the Pasdaran were in Lebanon.
	www.supportfree.com /countrypages/iran/104.htm (369 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Iranian crash kills military commander
		The plane, a Falcon jet belonging to the elite Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran), was attempting an emergency landing when it crashed near the village of Aidinlou, 12 kilometers from its intended destination, the provincial capital of West Azarbaijan, Oroumieh.
		Jazayeri confirmed that the commander of Pasdaran ground forces was among the fatalities.
		Kazemi was appointed the new commander of Pasdaran ground forces in August in a reshuffle instigated by the newly elected president, having previously served as the head of the Guard's air force.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=14259 (765 words)

	AllRefer.com - Iran - Command and Control in Iran \| Iranian Information Resource
		According to Speaker Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the service commanders in chief, the minister of defense, and the minister of the Pasdaran were removed from the operational chain to avoid further friction between the two groups.
		Generally speaking, Pasdaran, Gendarmerie, and National Police units operating in an internal security mission, particularly against insurgents, were detached from the operational area command and subordinated to the senior Pasdaran commander in the province in which they were engaged.
		In 1987 the SDC representative in the Western Operational Area Command was also the Pasdaran commander for the operational area command, a situation that further complicated the command and control system.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/iran/iran156.html (1664 words)

	Googlism where is pasdaran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		pasdaran is also believed to have a considerable influence on government policies which underlines their position as a powerful military instrument for
		pasdaran is also reported to have taken control of some of the 45 pilatus pc
		pasdaran is separate from and parallel to the regular iranian army
	www.googlism.com /where_is/p/pasdaran (87 words)

	Iran - Terror and Repression
		At least seventy guerrillas and Pasdaran members were killed before the uprising was put down.
		The government responded to the armed challenge of the guerrilla groups by expanded use of the Pasdaran in counterintelligence activities and by widespread arrests, jailings, and executions.
		The follow-up committee was soon dissolved, but the decree nevertheless led to a marked decrease in executions, tempered the worst abuses of the Pasdaran and revolutionary committees, and brought a measure of security to individuals not engaged in opposition activity.
	countrystudies.us /iran/26.htm (1791 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| One angry spy (Part 2)
		At that point, we had no idea what the Pasdaran was doing in the Caspian, but the possibility always existed that it intended to open a third front, in addition to Saudi Arabia.
		It was only a name the Pasdaran used for communiqués to claim terrorist operations.
		It was clear from the documents I dredged up that, by at least 1997, the CIA knew the Pasdaran's command structure inside and out, just as it knew that Ayatollah Ali Khameini and President Rafsanjani approved every terrorist operation to come out of Iran.
	www.guardian.co.uk /weekend/story/0,3605,630664,00.html (2437 words)

	WorldTribune.com: With 'election,' Iran's Khamenei throws caution to the winds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Given Ahmadinejad's background as a hard-line Islamist and Pasdaran security official, a participant in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, known for his torture and assassination of opponents, the election streamlines and accelerates the movement of the leadership in:
		In that regard, the Pasdaran was a third element, and it was dominated by Khamenei to defeat Rafsanjani.
		And while the Pasdaran leadership is absolutely answerable to Khamenei, its rank and file are increasingly disenchanted with the path of Iranian society, and have — like many even in the powerful Ministry of Intelligence & Security (VEVAK) — begun exploring how they could assist in the overthrow of the clerics.
	216.26.163.62 /2005/me_iran_06_28.html (2373 words)

	Iran News - Hezbollah's Iranian military advisors return home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		An information officer at the Iranian embassy in Beirut however told AFP that "this is an old piece of information that the embassy has already denied and that we deny again.
		After the September 11 attacks, the Beirut press had reported that hundreds of Pasdaran deployed in the Middle East and the Balkan region had returned home - an information then denied by the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
		The Pasdaran had arrived in Lebanon 1982 in the wake of the Israeli invasion of the country to help set up an Iranian-style Hezbollah movement based on the Iranian Islamic Revolution three years ago.
	iranmania.com /news/ArticleView?NewsCode=7781&NewsKind=Current+Affairs (921 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		Following his father's disappearance, the family's house was raided on numerous occasions by Pasdaran, the Revolutionary Guards, and as a result the author's mother fled to Sweden to join her youngest daughter.
		The author explains that this was dangerous work and that once the Pasdaran caught one of the subgroups when it was distributing flyers.
		These meetings were often raided by the Pasdaran and according to the author he was arrested and detained approximately 30 times during such raids, but he was always let go due to lack of evidence.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cat/decisions/89-1997.html (3510 words)

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