ARMED SPEEDBOOT Iran-Iraq conflict 1980s

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ARMED SPEEDBOOT Iran-Iraq conflict 1980s

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:39 pm

The armed speed-boot showed on this stamp was to honour the “Week of Basij”: Pasdaran Iranians resumed in the course of a maritime action during the conflict between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s. In my eyes it looks more a suicide mission, not any protection for the crew on the boat who did not have any change to survive this raid against a well-armed enemy.

Wikipedia gives on the Basij:
The Basij is a paramilitary volunteer militia founded by the order of the Ayatollah Khomeini in November 1979. The Basij are (at least in theory) subordinate to, and receive their orders from, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. However they have also been described as "a loosely allied group of organizations" including "many groups controlled by local clerics." Currently, the Basij serve as an auxiliary force engaged in activities such as internal security as well as law enforcement auxiliary, the providing of social service, organizing of public religious ceremonies, and as morality police and the suppression of dissident gatherings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_R ... orps#Basij
Iran 1992 40r sg 2727, scott 2546
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