Leaders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sought to reassure the public after Israeli strikes targeting Basij checkpoints and security facilities across Iran, raising concerns about the regime’s ability to maintain internal control during the widening conflict.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranians on the ground have been transmitting information in Persian through Israeli social media accounts. Israel has been relying in part on target information

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Israel’s assassination of most of the paramilitary Basij’s leadership signals a new phase in the war, in which the political repression apparatus in Iran is becoming the primary target. On the night of Monday into Tuesday,

A Basij commander spoke to soldiers, urging them not to panic during attacks by Israeli drones and not to abandon their posts.

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The Israeli Air Force targeted Iran’s internal security forces, known as the Basij, after they had set up traffic checkpoints in multiple areas across Tehran. Israel’s military announced on Thursday that it had been targeting the Basij soldiers manning those checkpoints “during the past day,

US and Israeli strikes against the Islamic Republic are expanding to include additional military infrastructure, command centers, and production facilities. At the same time, the Tehran regime is tightening security across Iranian cities amid reports of arrests,