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style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Notable<br />commanders</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Mahdavi_Kani" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani">Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Insignia</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Flag</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Islamic_Revolution_Committees.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_the_Islamic_Revolution_Committees.svg/250px-Flag_of_the_Islamic_Revolution_Committees.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_the_Islamic_Revolution_Committees.svg/375px-Flag_of_the_Islamic_Revolution_Committees.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_the_Islamic_Revolution_Committees.svg/500px-Flag_of_the_Islamic_Revolution_Committees.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1423" data-file-height="1041" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p><b>Islamic Revolution Committees</b> or <b>Committees of Islamic Revolution</b> (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span lang="fa" dir="rtl">کمیته‌های انقلاب اسلامی</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Persian" title="Romanization of Persian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Komitehāye Enqelābe Eslāmi</i></span>), simply known as the <b>Committee</b> (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span lang="fa" dir="rtl">کمیته</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Persian" title="Romanization of Persian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Komīte</i></span>; commonly referred to as <i>Komiteh</i>, pronounced koh-mee-TAY), was a revolutionary organization turned <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement" title="Law enforcement">law enforcement</a> agency in <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>. Founded in 1979, it was succeeded by the <a href="/wiki/Guidance_Patrol" title="Guidance Patrol">Guidance Patrol</a> in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_Revolution_Committees&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Founded as one of <a href="/wiki/Organizations_of_the_Iranian_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Organizations of the Iranian Revolution">Organizations of the Iranian Revolution</a> in 1979, after the overthrow of the Shah they served as substitutes for some of the governmental institutions no longer functioning after the fall of the shah, "such as social services, security, and police".<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Komiteh were "more widespread and active in cities than rural areas". They were often "located in captured police centers, in the houses of former government officials, and in some public places such as the parliament".<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As an arm of Ayatollah <a href="/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini" title="Ruhollah Khomeini">Ruhollah Khomeini</a>'s network of clerics, they also served as "the backbone of a second power within the state, along with the militia, the army, the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Court" title="Islamic Revolutionary Court">revolutionary tribunals</a>", and the wealthy <a href="/wiki/Bonyad" title="Bonyad">Islamic foundations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kepel-113-4_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kepel-113-4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps" title="Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps">Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps</a> (IRGC) was established in 1979, the komiteh "were responsible for eliminating counterrevolutionary elements within Iran",<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia.com_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and worked to eliminate liberal, leftist, and Islamic leftist opposition to Khomeini's power.<sup id="cite_ref-kepel-15_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kepel-15-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They have been described (by Gilles Kepel) as much like the <a href="/wiki/Committees_of_Public_Safety" class="mw-redirect" title="Committees of Public Safety">Committees of Public Safety</a> of the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>, and served to control the working class supporters of the revolution who made up most of the revolution's mass of demonstrators.<sup id="cite_ref-kepel-113-4_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kepel-113-4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the Iran-Iraq War, the revolutionary committees also served on the war front.<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia.com_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the crushing of opposition, the komiteh turned to "enforcing Islamic regulations on social behavior",<sup id="cite_ref-Shenon-NYT-ankle-1990_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shenon-NYT-ankle-1990-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> hunting down <a href="/wiki/Hijab_in_Iran" title="Hijab in Iran">bad hejabi</a> and enforcement of other measures, particularly among the secular middle class.<sup id="cite_ref-kepel-117_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kepel-117-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They made </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>certain that unmarried men and women do not hold hands or walk together on the sidewalk, that storekeepers display in their shops large, glossy photographs of the nation's senior Islamic clerics, that liquor is not served at private parties and that women keep their hair, arms and feet covered, preferably in the black robes called chadors.<sup id="cite_ref-Shenon-NYT-ankle-1990_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shenon-NYT-ankle-1990-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Made up of "mostly uneducated, undisciplined revolutionaries",<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia.com_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at least as of 1990 they were allegedly more "feared or detested" than any of the other post-revolutionary Iranian government agency.<sup id="cite_ref-Shenon-NYT-ankle-1990_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shenon-NYT-ankle-1990-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the death of Khomeini and "during the <a href="/wiki/Akbar_Hashemi_Rafsanjani#Presidency_(1989–1997)" class="mw-redirect" title="Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani">first period of Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani's presidency</a>", the police <a href="/wiki/Shahrbani" title="Shahrbani">Shahrbani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gendarmerie" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian Gendarmerie">Gendarmerie</a>, and kominteh were merged, and a new organization, called the "Disciplinary Force" (<i>Niru-ye entezami</i>) or <a href="/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Command_of_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="Law Enforcement Command of Islamic Republic of Iran">Law Enforcement Command of Islamic Republic of Iran</a> (FARAJA), under the direct control of the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Iran" title="Supreme Leader of Iran">Supreme Leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Ali_Khamenei" title="Ali Khamenei">Ali Khamenei</a>, was established in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia.com_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2005, a branch of FARAJA known as the <a href="/wiki/Guidance_Patrol" title="Guidance Patrol">Guidance Patrol</a> serves as a successor organisation to the Komiteh.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_Revolution_Committees&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 April</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Encyclopedia.com&rft.atitle=KOMITEH&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.encyclopedia.com%2Freligion%2Fencyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps%2Fkomiteh%23%3A~%3Atext%3DThe%2520Komiteh-ha-ye%2520Enghelab%252C%2520or%2520Revolutionary%2520Committees%252C%2520were%2520created%2Cdeposed%252C%2520such%2520as%2520social%2520services%252C%2520security%252C%2520and%2520police.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIslamic+Revolution+Committees" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-kepel-113-4-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-kepel-113-4_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kepel-113-4_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKepel2002" class="citation book cs1">Kepel, Gilles (2002). <i>Jihad : The Trail of Political Islam</i>. 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