IRAN
In 2001, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) established a special unit consisting of handpicked members of the IRGC’s land, sea, and air forces. Dubbed the Saberin Unit, its members were described as volunteers “seeking martyrdom,” tasked to carry out special missions and/or widespread cross-border attacks for the IRGC.
Amanollah Gashtasbi, who has led the Saberin Unit since 2014, described his group as having “a duty to confront the opponents and those ridiculing the values of the revolution. This duty has been appointed to the Saberin Unit alone and other special units have no such tasks.”
The unit first received widespread notice in 2011, when it led a crackdown on Iranian Kurdish dissidents. More recently, it has played an active role in Syria and Iraq; Mohammad Pakpour, a senior commander of the more well-known IRGC-Qods Force, admitted on February 18 that a number of Saberin troops have been killed in the two countries.
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