Iran: IRGC Modus Operandi in Coping with the Rebellion in Larger Tehran, Tehran and Alborz Provinces

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The backlash over the mass killings of the protesters in November 2019 prompted the regime to formulate a brand new method to subsequent uprisings. On the regime’s Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei’s directives, the suppressive forces engaged in a mass arrest of protesters, particularly in Tehran and Karaj, as an alternative of the widespread use of reside ammunition. Their goal was to reduce the variety of casualties in order that, in Khamenei’s phrases, “enemy and hostile teams wouldn’t have an excuse” (to inflame the protests).    To this finish, on Khamenei’s orders, “non-lethal weapons with plastic pellets, have been used when vital.” The order, nevertheless, didn’t stop the “elementary consideration from being taken into consideration positively,” specifically using weapons and reside ammunition “throughout  the deployment and dispatch of army column” and “to arrest and confront with armed and terrorist components.”

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Date: October 11, 2022

Extremely Confidential

To the next respectable recipients

From the Sarallah Garrison Command in Tehran

Regardless of quite a few directives about using non-lethal weapons through the current riots within the nation and in view of the enemy’s design to incite and intensify violence and assaults on-premises, army forces and the State Safety Power to trigger mass casualties, generally unwarranted and unjustified use of firearms by some items have been noticed, which is able to result in undesired outcomes, akin to rising fatalities, intensifying unrest and offering propaganda fodder.

Due to this fact, with a view to stop human casualties and additional injury to the Islamic Revolution, the next have to be applied:

1. Emphasis have to be laid on acquiring intelligence and correct prediction of doable gatherings and disturbances with a view to take preventive measures and preemptive operations and stop the formation of unlawful gatherings and disturbances.
2. The safety of police and army areas and headquarters, particularly the areas near the gatherings and riots (hotspots of unrest) ought to be totally assured, intensified, and strengthened. Needed preparations have to be taken to take care of the doable assaults by rioters on these areas by utilizing anti-riot non-lethal instruments and tools. These utilizing such weapons have to be correctly skilled. This matter is to be repeatedly monitored.
3. In instances when it’s required to defend areas the place rioters or armed persons are infiltrating and getting into them, solely non-lethal weapons akin to Winchester (with non-lethal plastic pellets) ought to be used as wanted and by skilled folks.
4. If there isn’t any alternative however to make use of firearms to defend army areas, these weapons ought to be used solely by particular and skilled folks and in a very focused method.
5. It’s anticipated that the sphere commanders, making an allowance for the orders of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and following the directives of the Normal Workers of the Armed Forces, will act properly and neatly in such a means that the human losses amongst our personal forces, rioters and odd folks (killed or wounded) could be minimized and no excuse could be offered to the enemy and hostile teams.

It ought to be famous that within the implementation of paragraphs 1 to 4 above, the next primary issues have to be taken into consideration:

1. Carrying firearms for the safety of our operational forces through the deployment, and safety of columns, is allowed, and its use on this scenario can be in accordance with the regulation governing using weapons.
2. Carrying and use of firearms by Particular Operations groups to arrest and confront armed and terrorist components are allowed in accordance with the permitted guidelines and laws.

IRGC Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, Commander of Sarallah Garrison in Tehran

Signature: Deputy, IRGC Brig. Gen Hossein Nejat

Recipients:

1)    For the eye and required implementation of the Honorable Commander of the Hazrat Muhammad Rasulullah Corps of the Larger Tehran

2)    For the eye and required implementation of the Honorable Commander of Hazrat Seyyed al-Shohada Corps of Tehran province

3)    For the eye and required implementation of the Honorable Commander of Imam Hassan Mojtaba Corps of Alborz Province,

Copy to:

– Operations Deputy of Sarallah Garrison in Tehran, to comply with up and take vital actions

– Intelligence Deputy of Sarallah Garrison in Tehran, for follow-up and take vital actions

Nationwide Council of Resistance

Safety and Counterterrorism Committee

October 20, 2022