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By Amir Taghati<\/p>\n
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGS) of Iran, including its Basij Resistsnace Force and 22 other dependent financial sectors, are all in the United States\u2019 list of \u201cterrosists\u201d.<\/p>\n
With this label on Basij, its assets have become limited and American citizens have also gotten banned from doing any trades with it (or any organisation that affiliates with it).<\/p>\n
On 16th October, a statement was released from the US\u2019 Department of Treasury: \u201cToday, our office of Foreign Assets has taken action against a vast network that affiliate with Iran\u2019s Basij Resistance Force; this network provides financial infrastructure to the Basij\u2019s efforts to recruit, train, and indoctrinate child soldiers, who are coerced into combat under the IRGC\u2019s direction\u201d.<\/p>\n
In response to this action, IRGCs immediately removed their shares from Etemad-e-Mobin (which is a public trust consortium for the Iran\u2019s telecommunications), as announced by the regime itself: \u201cFollowing the direction of Iran\u2019s General Staff of Armed Forces, the IRGC has sold off its shares from Etemad-e-Mobin\u201d.<\/p>\n
This is a clear retreat from Iran\u2019s regime, which some state media refer to as a \u201cheroic compromise\u201d (a term that was first created by Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Khamenei, to justify instances of retreat like this).<\/p>\n
A platform named Rouydad24 comments regarding Rouhani\u2019s government: \u201cIt seems that the IRGCs, who normally criticize or disregard the directions of the parliament and the government itself, have finally give into a heroic compromise following the recent sanctions; and that they have exited the Telecommunication sector (and sold off their billion-dollar shares) just to prevent any damages to their own financial resources\u201d.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth reminding that the biggest business deal of the regime\u2019s history was signed in 2011, when IRGCs bought 50% plus one share of \u201cTose\u2019e Etemad-e-Mobin\u201d stock, in less than half an hour.<\/p>\n
Etemad-e-Mobin consists of several different sectors, all of which affiliate with either the IRGC or the Execution of Imam Khomeini\u2019s Order (like \u201cGostareshe Electronic Mobin\u201d for instance).<\/p>\n
US Sanctions include the Revolutionary Guards Cooperative Foundation.<\/p>\n
Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary of the US emphasises on the evil role of Basij in violent crackdowns and serious human right abuses; and on the fact that this force trains child soldiers as young as 12 years old, and send them off to Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime: \u201cThe international community must understand that business dealings with Bonyad Taavon Basij have real world humanitarian consequences and any continued dealings with this Force will only fuel Iran\u2019s tyranny further across all Middle East\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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