Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday dismissed US calls for Tehran to stop enriching uranium. "The key to nuclear technology is ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The commander of Iran’s Basij (mobilization) Force described plans to strengthen his organization as a national duty. In comments on Sunday, Brigadier General Gholam Reza ...

Some time after the Taliban’s first fall, when National Geographic Explorer Shabana Basij-Rasikh was eleven years old, she was taking a school placement test in Kabul. According to official ...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Afghan education activist and co-founder of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan, will deliver Barnard’s 2025 Commencement address on Tuesday, the college announced in a ...

On April 30, 1980, a bill to set up the National Basij Organization was approved in the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the bill, Basij is tasked with countering any foreign military aggression ...

Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year Shabana Basij-Rasikh was driven away by the Taliban. Undeterred, she hopes to build a global model for educating displaced children. Shabana Basij ...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh is co-founder and president of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan. Basij-Rasikh, co-founder and president of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), writes about the ...

The group is weaponized with its own naval, aerospace, intelligence, ground, and foreign forces (Quds), along with its own militia—the parliamentary volunteers known as Basij, whose unrestricted ...

In Iran the Basij Organization, that was formed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, exemplifies the most effective volunteerism. Basij members do services to people without any expectations. Now Basij ...

Basij militia forces attend a meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran November 26, 2022. (photo credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/West Asia News Agency ...

DUBAI :Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday Iran's Basij militia forces have sacrificed their lives in what he called riots, the wave of protests sparked by the death in custody ...