Basij forces hold major military parade in Tehran

25 November 2011 | 22:31 Code : 18225 Latest Headlines

Mehr News Agency – Fifty thousand Basij forces held a major military parade on Monday outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which is called the Den of Spies, to commemorate the anniversary of the establishment of the Basij in 1979 at the behest of the late Imam Khomeini.

Basij Commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi reviewed ranks of Basijis on parade.

in an address to Basijis, Firouzabadi said that the establishment of the Basij dealt a severe blow to the United States and the Zionist regime.

“Today they should know that anyone, who has the intention of invading Iran, should prepare to receive hard slaps from the Sepah (the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps) and the Basij,” he asserted.

He went on to say that the main strategy of the enemy is to undermine the principle of velayat-e faqih (rule of the supreme jurisprudent), the Sepha, the Basij, and the Iranian nation’s unity.

He also said that the Basijis’ parade was held in support of the Islamic awakening movement rolling across the Middle East and North Africa region and the Wall Street movement in the U.S. and some other Western countries.