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Title: Recognizing the Enemy and Paying Attention to the Leader's Guidance Keeps the County Safe Date: July 15, 2014 / Tir 24, 1393 Source: Tasnim News Tasnim News: The director of intelligence in Sistan & Baluchistan said: Familiarization with the enemy, and paying attention to the guidance of the Supreme Leader [and the] Quran, is a roadmap for confronting the Arrogance and [protecting] the country against damage. In a conference on the activities of terrorist groups in the Islamic world, the director of intelligence in S&B said to Tasnim News in Zahedan: Our Islamic Revolution occurred in conditions that affect the whole world, an area of soft and hard confrontation between two poles of the world, in which one was located in America, and the other in the Soviet Union. He added: In Islamic Iran, Khomenei's leadership and his enlightened guidance based on Islam transformed the world order and the [balance] of power by taking a third form. The director of in...

In the third part of the 'Basij Organization' series, we now turn to our first case study: Semnan province. The first part covered the Imam Hussein battalion , and the second part covered the Beit al-Moqdas battalion . Index : Abbreviations/acronyms Introduction Province Area Zone, base and battalion Footnotes Appendix - Reference material translations Abbreviations/Acronyms : aZ: al-Zahra; battalion name. BaM: Beit al-Moqdas; battalion or exercise name. bn: battalion BRB: Basij Resistance Base; lowest administrative level. BRZ: Basij Resistance Zone; middle administrative level. BRA/SRA: Basij/Sepah Resistance Area; highest administrative level below the province. co: company HQ: headquarters. IA: Imam Ali; battalion name. IH: Imam Hussein; battalion name. IRGC: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (aka, Sepah) IRGCGF: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Ground Forces Introduction : The Basij in Semnan province are organized according to the Gen. Jafari's Mosaic Doctrine, wh...