People's Liberation and Resistance

"We protect our people... yet you call us the terrorists?"

- Faruk Al-Bashir during the execution of Miller

The People's Liberation and Resistance (آزادیبخش خلق و مقاومت), commonly abbreviated to PLR, is a fictional Iranian paramilitary insurgent group based largely in the Middle East, although with contacts in the Western world. It is led by Faruk Al-Bashir.

Global War of 2014
In Battlefield 3, the People's Liberation and Resistance fights against the United States Marines and the Russian Spetsnaz. They work hand-in-hand with the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran following a coup in which Faruk Al-Bashir, sympathetic to their cause, takes control. Thus, one of their more common weapons is the Iranian-made KH2002, while those outside of Iran use a less-standardized menagerie of weapons.



They successfully detonated a portable nuclear weapon in Paris, France, which implicates Russia as the perpetrator, thus sending the two superpowers into a state of war.

The Marines previously knew Faruk Al-Bashir to be the primary leader of the force, but during a capture mission, the Misfit team of Quinton Cole, and Henry Blackburn discovered truths that Solomon was in fact the mastermind behind all the chaos.

Weapons used
The PLR uses a variety of infantry weapons ranging from assault rifles, machine-guns, sniper rifles, shotguns, and rocket launchers.

Assault Rifles

 * KH2002
 * AEK-971
 * AK-74M
 * G3A3
 * F2000 (Captured)

Light Machine Guns

 * PKP Pecheneg
 * RPK-74M

Submachine Guns

 * AKS-74U

Sniper Rifles

 * M98B
 * M82A1 (Operation Swordbreaker only)

Shotguns

 * Saiga 12K
 * 870MCS

Explosives

 * RPG-7V2
 * IED

Other

 * Knife

Vehicles used

 * Technical (with mounted PKM)
 * T-90
 * T-72M1
 * Type 72Z
 * BM-21
 * BMP-2
 * SU-35 Flanker E
 * Ka-60 Kasatka

Notable personnel

 * Faruk Al-Bashir
 * Solomon
 * Hamid Al-Zakir (defected)
 * Abu Muhammad
 * Abdul Rahman

Trivia

 * The Iranian soldiers of the PLR wear green combat armor identical in style to that of the Russian Assault Model from Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
 * Occasionally, the PLR insurgents can be heard swearing in Farsi.
 * In accordance with above, a PLR insurgent can be heard yelling out "La'massab!". While the subtitles translate this to "dog", the word "damned" is more accurate.
 * In Operation Swordbreaker mission the PLR has insurgents instead of soldiers, however the insurgents are only seen in Operation Swordbraker, as well in all other levels they look soldiers.

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