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Iran's Security Forces Have Remained Loyal
(Ynet News) Ron Ben-Yishai - The Iranian regime has given a clear directive to security forces - the police, the Revolutionary Guards, and the Basij militia - to shoot to kill. The result has been hundreds of deaths. Unlike in Egypt, Tunisia and other countries during the Arab Spring, where the security forces ultimately refused to fire on civilians, the regime's security forces have remained loyal. This loyalty stems in large part from the regime's religious-jihadist character. The Arab regimes that fell during the Arab Spring were all secular. Iran's regime is a jihadist theocracy whose loyalists are driven by extreme Islamist ideology - making them willing to do what their counterparts in other countries would not.