
Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, announced a new “headquarters” on Wednesday to combat soaring prices in Iran.
In a speech a day earlier, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had raised concern over the skyrocketing cost of essential commodities and called on the IRGC’s Basij Force to step in and rein unaffordable prices in coordination with President Hassan Rouhani’s administration.
The Basij or the “Mobilization Resistance Force” is one of the five forces of the IRGC and a paramilitary volunteer militia established in Iran in 1979.
It initially consisted of civilian volunteers urged by the Islamic Republic founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, to fight in the Iran–Iraq War.
However, after the devastating war, Iranian authorities unleashed Basij members to suppress anti-regime protests.
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Per Salami, following Khamenei’s remarks on the ever-increasing cost of essential goods in Iran, the IRGC held a joint meeting with the Ministers of Agriculture Jihad, Mines, Industry, and Trade, Justice, the Islamic Republic Prosecutor-General, and the representatives of the country’s police, and all other relevant monitoring and intelligence services. The officials decided to combine the IRGC and Basij’s influences with other state entities’ capabilities to control essential commodities’ prices, Salami said, and a “headquarters” for combating soaring prices were proposed.”The IRGC has a variety of capabilities that it will mobilize to assist the two ministries,” Salami said, praising the potential of coordination between Basij, MIMT, and Ministry of Agriculture Jihad. The establishment of various headquarters by the IRGC or in tandem with other state-run entities is one of Iran’s methods whenever the nation confronts a critical situation. Most of these headquarters are established by Khamenei’s direct orders, though a clear final report.