Cont.
• IRGC-AF ballistic missile parade units— Khorramshahr and Qadr types on TELs— displayed at nightly municipal square pro-IRI rally events
• At Enqelab Square event, observed NOPO Spartak MRAP and a Traffic Police unit

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Cont.
• Also at Tehran, a Law Enforcement Command special unit Fateq variant armored vehicle with two observed policemen and checkpoint related traffic control devices

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🗯️ Protest ⚔️ Rebellion 🚨 IRI security visuals
🔎 Analysis of visual evidence

• Law Enforcement Command special unit position in Tehran, including Fateq series armored vehicle and tended DShK heavy machine gun mounted in soft-skinned weapon carrier

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🇨🇦 Sherman V tank Nº42 of C Sqn, 29th Armd Recce Regt (SAR)
🇨🇦 B Coy, 1st Bn, A & SH of C (Princess Louise's)

⚔️ Operation Tractable
🗓️ Image date: 19 Aug 1944
📌 Location: Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive, 48.819511° 0.075569°

Photographer
🇨🇦 Lt. Donald I. Grant
🗄️ LAC: 3396212

Cont.
• Ghodrat ("Power") police exercise conducted by Markazi provincial Special Unit in the city of Arak

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🗯️ Protest ⚔️ Rebellion 🚨 IRI security visuals
🔎 Analysis of visual evidence

• Basij women participants at "Iranian Girls' Sacrificing Life" event held in North Khorosan province, depicted with IRGC Kaviran tactical vehicle and Aras 3 light tactical truck

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Cont.
• Performance of an army band on occasion of Military Day, depicted at the nightly pro-IRI rally in Tehran

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🗯️ Protest ⚔️ Rebellion 🚨 IRI security visuals
🔎 Analysis of visual evidence

• IRGC/Basij bivouac post observed at edge of park setting in Tehran, including parked Safir tactical vehicle, Hilux light truck, and two heavy machine guns

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• Doll pink props observed at the "Iranian Girls' Sacrificing Life" event held in Tehran, including painted Fath Safir tactical vehicle, and weapon prop hardware

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🇬🇧 Soldiers from 4th Bn, Welch Regt, 53rd (Welsh) Inf Div

⚔️ Operation Blockbuster
🗓️ Date: 03 Mar 1945
📌 Location: Weeze, 51.627596° 6.200752°

Photographer
🇬🇧 Sgt R.H. Palmer, No.5 AFPU
🗄️ IWM: B 15066

🛰️ Imagery 🔲 Historical photo 📷 Street view ⬇️

Cont.
• Basij women issued with SA-7 pattern MANPADS launch tubes

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Cont.
• Basij women issued with PK type general purpose machine gun and S-5.56 type assault rifle

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Cont.
• Basij women issued with SVD type sniper rifle and AK-103 assault rifles

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Cont.
• Basij women paraded as DShK heavy machine gun operators, some with accompanying daughters
• Woman participant issued with FAST style helmet

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Cont.
• Basij women paraded as operators of ZU-23-2 autocannons mounted on technicals

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Cont.
• Basij women paraded with HM type mortars and ammunition crates, issued with AK-103 assault rifles

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Cont.
• Basij women issued with Type 56 assault rifles
• Woman participant issued with MARPAT style battle dress uniform

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🗯️ Protest ⚔️ Rebellion 🚨 IRI security visuals
🔎 Analysis of visual evidence

• "Iranian Girls' Sacrificing Life" event held in Tehran
• Basij women riding pillion, issued with Uzi type submachine guns

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🇺🇸 M4A3(75) tanks from CCB | 11th Armd Div

⚔️ Advance through Germany
🗓️ Date: 12 Apr 1945
📌 Location: Marktzeuln, 50.166397° 11.168813°

Historical photograph
🇺🇸 USASC
🗄️ 111-SC-336337

🛰️ Imagery 🔲 Historical photo 📷 Street view ⬇️

Cont.
• Rolling Basij rally including militiamen armed with AKM type assault rifles, soft-skinned weapon carrier mounting DShK heavy machine gun and public address loudspeaker vehicle

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🗯️ Protest ⚔️ Rebellion 🚨 IRI security visuals
🔎 Analysis of visual evidence

• Plainclothes security checkpoint armed with AKM type assault rifles at site location in Karaj, Alborz province

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🇬🇧 Universal Carrier Mk.II with soldiers from 4th Bn, Dorset Regiment, 130th Inf Bde, 43rd (Wessex) Div

⚔️ Operation Neptune
🗓️ Date: 27 Aug 1944
📌 Location: Vernon, 49.095617° 1.490186°

Photographer
🇬🇧 Sgt C.H. Hewitt, No.5 AFPU
🗄️ IWM: BU 213

🛰️ Imagery 🔲 Historical photo 📷 Street view ⬇️

Cont.
• Police Special Unit element including crewed, soft-skinned weapon carrier mounting DShK heavy machine gun (HMG), traversing Ahvaz in Khuzestan province

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Cont.
• Police special forces motorized element posted during night conditions at Shohada Square in Arak, Markazi province

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🗯️ Protest ⚔️ Rebellion 🚨 IRI security visuals
🔎 Analysis of visual evidence

• Armed Special Unit policemen (ranks: WO) posted during daylight conditions, downtown section of Arak in Markazi province

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Cont.
• Traffic police regulating a pro-IRI rally event on Ferdowsi Square in Tehran, using an IKCO (Peugeot) 207i police vehicle

Visual credit: @mkazeroun

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Cont.
• IRI media promotional image depicting wartime, volunteer charitable food distribution to policemen, emergency responders

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🗯️ Protest ⚔️ Rebellion 🚨 IRI security visuals
🔎 Analysis of visual evidence

• Maintained daytime police special forces presence at Valiasr Square in Tehran, including positioned Joshan type armored vehicle

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Cont.
• SL allegiance ceremony at night in Bojnourd, North Khorasan province: local Basij women branch issued with AKM assault rifles, men depicted with licensed hunting firearms

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🗯️ Protest ⚔️ Rebellion 🚨 IRI security visuals
🔎 Analysis of visual evidence

• Rolling pro-IRI rally in Tehran including NOPO counter-terror brigade: four Russia-sourced Spartak MRAPs (possible local full complement) and one Joshan armored vehicle

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