The Fatahin Special Unit is one of the militia groups under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps whose members have received special military training beyond the common training of Basij members. These forces, who participated in the Syrian civil war, were deployed in the capital in the midst of the 1401 uprising in Iran with the same military uniforms to deal with the protesters. Fatihin Special Unit was established in 1378 in the middle of the university by Majid Fathinejad and Basijian West of Capitaln in Moqdad district under the title of Airborne Special Operations Unit under the branch of Mohammad Rasulullah Guards of Greater Tehran.