Foya Jahandar - The launch of the "Sacrifice your life for Iran" campaign by a group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shows that the Islamic Republic is trying to rebuild the image of the forces associated with oppression through a new name and pave the way for attracting new volunteers.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij Mustafain have become notorious and hated institutions among a large part of Iranian society due to their direct role in the bloody suppression of protests and the killing of protesters in recent decades, as well as in the January 1404 National Revolution.
Examining the experience of authoritarian regimes in Syria and Venezuela shows that there was a history of changing names and reorganizing the security forces and militias. In these countries, the repressive forces were reorganized in some cases with the aim of reducing publicity, maintaining the security structure and recruiting new forces.
But the "janafada" campaign in Iran also has another characteristic: the use of a word used in the Islamic Republic's opposition literature to honor the dead after the killing of protesters in January.
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