The Basij militia: The Iranian regime’s bloody baton of suppression and terror against its people

. . .According to Kasra Aarabi and Saeid Golkar of the United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) think tank, the regime has a four-tiered system of national-security threat levels: White (normal); Yellow (abnormal); Orange (extraordinary); and Red (critical). The entire country is divided into 11 areas, each with around three provinces, which have an IRGC operational security-military headquarters responsible for them.