The new units will begin work during the New Year vacation period – a two-week holiday which begins on March 20.
The force includes the plain-clothes agents used in the suppression and murder or protesters during the mass uprisings of the 2009 election.
The IRGC’s Special Units Commander Hassan Karami announced the launch of the new police at a meeting of IRGC commanders on March 17, the regime’s state-run news agency reported.
Thee fist unit would be made up of children of those already in special IRGC units, and their would be counter ‘internal and external subversives’, he told the meeting.
He added: “At the present time, the enemy has launched a economic and social war against us and the oppressors are trying to undermine our struggle in defense of the Supreme Leader.”
State Security Forces chief Esmael Ahmadi Moghaddam also referred to the creation of the honorary police force in February, when he told a meeting of State Security Forces (Police): “The enemy has plans to create tensions in the society.”