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ASVARAN (Persian: اسواران; officially blend word for "Asb Savaran",[1] Persian: اسبسواران, Hoursemounters; the word Asvaran itself also means Cavalries[2]) is the mounted police unit of Law Enforcement Command of Islamic Republic of Iran and a subdivision of its Special Units Command.[1] The unit specializes in crowd control and riot control.[3]
The mounted police, part of the Iranian Police Special Units, was established in 2013, following the reorganisation after the suppression of the Green Movement.[4]
See also
[edit]- Aswaran, cavalry unit in the Sassanian army
References
[edit]- 1 2 "ایسنا - یک روز با پلیسهای اسبسوار+عکس". Iranian Students' News Agency (in Persian). 21 April 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ↑ "اسواران". Abadis Online Dictionary (in Persian). Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ↑ "پلیس ایران با اسب آمد". BBC Persian (in Persian). 5 July 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ↑ Golkar, Saeid (2025). "Law Enforcement and the Judiciary in Postrevolutionary Iran". In Enayat, Hadi; Künkler, Mirjam (eds.). The rule of law in the Islamic Republic of Iran: power, institutions, and the limits of reform. Cambridge (GB): Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-108-48142-7.
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