{"id":9944,"date":"2011-02-22T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T08:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/9944-irgc-commander-anxious-over-pmoi-role-in-protests"},"modified":"2023-01-13T20:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T19:01:11","slug":"irgc-commander-anxious-over-pmoi-role-in-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/irgc-commander-anxious-over-pmoi-role-in-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC commander anxious over PMOI role in protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ghasemi\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-36916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/02\/ghasemi.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 5px;float: left\" width=\"201\" height=\"185\" \/>NCRI &#8211; A former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) derided growing protests in Iran last week, blaming it on the main Iranian opposition and saying protestors demanded the complete overthrow of the entire regime.<\/p>\n<p>According to state-run news agencies, Saeed Qasemi rejected reports that tens of thousands of people participated in anti-regime demonstrations last week, saying, \u201c[It is claimed] tens of thousands poured into the streets. That\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdd the followers of Rajavi to the prisoners and you\u2019ll get single-digit numbers,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a [politically] polluted Tehran, they are showing their faces,\u201d he added anxiously.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a number of IRGC and paramilitary Bassij forces, Qasemi also said slogans chanted last Monday by demonstrators \u201cwere against the entire Islamic establishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told the regime\u2019s forces to \u201cbe on alert for the enemy\u2019s future attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; A former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) derided growing protests in Iran last week, blaming it on the main Iranian opposition and saying protestors demanded [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-9944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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