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Methodology of Basij attacks:

The following is compiled from what has been observable during the election protests.

The Basij dress in normal clothes.No identifying mark, symbol, or signal has been discerned. Thus, it is assumed that they identify friends/foes by

1) their actions - the people who are being aggressive are their friends, the ones who react by fighting back, running, or pleading are foes. The size of their combat cells (15-20) means they are also capable of

2) face recognition as a means to identify their comrades. However, they usually execute missions and objective in groups larger than that, meaning that method 2 may not be being used.

They sometimes masquerade as protesters, wearing green and marching with them, and then attacking by beating them. During the day, they skirt around the larger crowds and tend to target smaller groups of protesters in side streets, along with the riot police.

Their main objectiveseems to be to push protesters (or have the protesters chase them) down side streets in order to fragment groups into manageable sizes, and then use overwhelming force to attack and arrest them. This conclusion was reached because the only videos and pictures of direct attacks from Basij are in areas enclosed by buildings or roads that force protesters to form smaller groups.

At night is presumably when they do the majority of their work - beginning at dusk they will pursue arrests of opponents to the government, raid buildings, and attack protesters going home. Troubling is that unlike with the police, it is unclear where they take prisoners and how they treat them. Some students from the university they raided are still missing.

They have been taped firing into crowds.It is unclear, but it seems the ones that do will fire a few warning shots in an attempt to disperse crowds, and then fire into crowds. It is unclear what they have been told about how much death they can cause. The lack of a big massacre thus far leads one to believe that the killings that are committed are a result of the rhetoric of their superiors, rather than any express commands.

Under the law of God:

"Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly; surely Allah loves the doers of justice" Koran (60-8) “…take not life, which God hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.” [Al-Qur’an 6:151].

“Otherwise, as I have already said, a government not respecting the people’s vote has no religious or political legitimacy. I ask the police and army personnel not to “sell their religion”, and be aware that receiving orders will not excuse them before God.”  Grand Aiatollah Montazeri June 2009.

The ones that  kill innocent citizens, are blasphemers are blasphemers because they go against the law of God.

Under the law of men.

“The Iranian government at this time has ceased to be a legitimate government. A government primary role is to protect its citizens. They have done the exact opposite. They have hired thugs from the rural areas of Iran, Syria and Lebanon to beat, terrorize andkill its citizens. They pay the Lebanese more than the Iranian. 200,000 Tomans or $200. When your government takes measures to kill you…that is no longer your government! This is no longer about an election!” Anonymous post on Youtube.

“Crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced” (Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 30^th September and 1st October 1946, Cmd. 6964, Misc. No. 12, London: H.M.S.O 1946, p. 41)

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