REK OKEAN,PAUL LEVINE,ERIC M SCHWERIN,BRENDA H BEAL,ALEXANDER S CASSIDY,J

aten by the Basij militia, gangs of young regime thugs on motorbikes who were given a green light to quell the uprising. As Iranian-American academic Shervin Malekzadeh reported from Tehran, the Basij seemed to be driven by a combination of class resentment and pent-up frustration. "They don't screw; they d