Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of the Basij, August 13, 2014

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Mohammad Reza Naqdi
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“The filthy monarchical British regime still feels pity for the black era of colonialism and it wishes to find new Khans to follow the footsteps of its former servants like Reza Khan (the father of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last king of the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran who was toppled in the 1979 Islamic Revolution in the country) and rule the Iranian people and it wishes to return to the black era of colonialism by sowing discord and creating distance between the Iranian people and the pivot of Islam and unity, but it will take this wish to the grave.”“Basij Commander Calls Britain’s Iran Embassy as ‘Spy Den,’” Fars News Agency, August 13, 2014, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930522001069.

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