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Poor religious volunteer forces mobilized by the revolutionary regime; Jiang presents them as a mass source of sacrificial military power.
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Basij
Poor religious volunteer forces mobilized by the revolutionary regime; Jiang presents them as a mass source of sacrificial military power.
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Jiang describes the Basij as poor religious village volunteers, often teenagers, mobilized with rifles and keys to heaven to run across minefields and exhaust the Iraqi army through sacrifice.
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Jiang argues that Iran's military strength comes from IRGC leaders who are fanatics with revolutionary passion and from mass religious volunteers the state can draw on.
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"And the reason why is that the Revolutionary Guard Corps had arrested or exiled or executed the officers of the military. Because they were..."
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"And they're supported by the Bajajis who are these poor, illiterate religious volunteers. And there's tens of millions of them for Iran to draw..."
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"And they gave each of these guys a rifle and a key to put over their necks. Okay? And the idea is that this..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central move: the crash was probably an accident, but if it was not, Jiang asks who had opportunity, motive, and the most to gain.
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