Hossein Bastani, a political analyst, says analyzing today’s Basij based on the wartime mindset is misleading.
Hossein Bastani, a political analyst, tweeted about the Basij in today’s Iran, stating that today’s Basij, with all its branches in offices, universities, or guilds, is an organization for distributing educational, financial, employment, or political privileges. The main condition for receiving these privileges is not readiness for war, but participation in repression. Analyzing today’s Basij based on the wartime mindset would be misleading.