As someone who is interested in Persian culture, it feels wrong having a bordering Persian speaking country ruined by islamic radicalism. Many secular Afghans that I've met in America seemed to have solidarity with Iranians.

Nikita Kapoor breaks down the high-stakes, two-front offensive crippling Tehran. At sea, the US Navy executes 'Operation Economic Outcast,' sinking Iranian tankers and shutting down oil revenues. On land, Israel launches a massive multi-front blitz across Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen in just 24 hours. From blocked ports and a hyper-inflated Rial to crumbling proxy networks, discover how coordinated strategy is choking the regime from all sides.

Azadiye mardumemun nazdike bavaram shode. Aknun, fishar tuye Iran balatarine.

Banka hich kudumeshun nemizaran mardum pul dar biyaran. Benzin chenun gerun shode, khorak chenun gerun shode. Mardumaye Iran goshnashunan.

Ye ruzi bidar mishin tuye televizyon mibinin parchame shiro khorshidemuno hameja tuye Iran dare mitabune, azad shodim. Az en zamane tariki gozashtim.

Hamin ruza be payane farmanravayiye islami miresim.

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Recently, there have been calls from an unknown source (Syrian country code) with the Iranians in the south, urging them not to support the IRGC:

"The reactionary IRGC has disconnect you from the world, they keep you far away from the intel of the world, they have taken your economy away from you, they do not allow you to have freedom and make decisions for yourselves and your families, do not support the IRGC and think about the survival/prevail of your own families ×2"

Iranian authorities have repeatedly publicised arrests and clashes with small armed cells inside the country, or skirmishes with armed groups along land borders, particularly in the lead-up to and during the war with Israel and the United States.

In one of the latest instances, state media said on Sunday that members of an eight-member network allegedly affiliated with “anti-revolutionary” and “pro-monarchy” groups were arrested.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the southern province of Fars accused those arrested of using Molotov cocktails and burning tyres during nationwide protests in January.

The leaders of Iran’s Islamic Republic have in recent weeks also expressed concern about more potential protests as public discontent rises amid deteriorating economic conditions.

During Iran’s January protests and on social media, a number of Iranians have expressed support for the return of the country’s monarchy, which was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic revolution.

US President Donald Trump, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, did openly discuss the goal of overthrowing the Iranian state during the opening months of the war, which began in late February. Calls for the monarchy to replace the Islamic Republic have been particularly prominent in demonstrations outside of Iran.

The Iranian government has since then announced a large number of arrests of people it says are supporters of the monarchy.

That has included 111 so-called “monarchist cells” arrested across 26 provinces, as announced on March 18 by the Intelligence Ministry.

Iranian authorities consider the January protests a “coup” orchestrated by armed agents of the US and Israel, including pro-monarchists.

The judiciary has executed dozens of prisoners since the start of the war, including some of those who protested in January. Numerous students, artists, businesspeople, journalists, healthcare workers and others have also been arrested over recent months for acts perceived by the authorities to be against national security.

Kurdish fighters active close to Iran’s western borders with Iraq are the country’s largest non-state armed threat.

Multiple groups, designated as “terrorist” outfits by Iranian authorities, have been based in the semiautonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq for years.

Aside from the Kurdish forces, Iran’s disenfranchised and restive southeastern border areas are also home to separatist Baloch fighters.

In late August, security forces said they had broken up a cell belonging to Jaish al-Adl, the most prominent of the Baloch armed groups. One rebel fighter was reported to have been killed, six arrested, and rifles, grenade launchers and explosives seized. But sporadic attacks from the group have been ongoing, at times killing police officers and IRGC figures.

Alex Vatanka, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Middle East Institute, said that external support for the Kurdish and Baloch rebel groups could increase the security challenge facing the authorities.

“The Iranian state might see any signs of increased external support for ethnic militants to be of an existential kind this time around due to the war situation,” he told Al Jazeera.

“I only see ethnic militant groups as possibly decisive [in the war] if they are part of a broader externally-funded push to pressure the regime in Tehran, which the Islamic Republic is already anticipating and calls a foreign-led hybrid-war campaign,” Vatanka added.

For his part, Trita Parsi, the Quincy Institute’s co-founder, said that while separatist militias don’t pose an existential threat to the government, they “may prove tremendously problematic for Tehran if the war with the US escalates after the mid-terms and the US decides, for instance, to deploy ground troops”

“If Trump decides to accept military risks after the midterms that he earlier eschewed, such as deploying ground troops, then it is highly conceivable that the US will seek to use armed militias inside the country,” Parsi added.

Last week, Trump discussed the possibility that the pressure from war, sanctions and a naval blockade of Iran’s southern ports could ultimately lead to an internal uprising, or even the fall of the establishment.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the pressure could prompt Iranians to take to the streets again, or even create divisions within the IRGC.

“Maybe the people will rise up,” he said. “There is 100 percent inflation, queues, the military isn’t getting paid, [and] the central bank governor was in a panic last week.”

Iran's currency has fallen to an all-time low, trading at more than 2.25 million rials per US dollar.

The country is also facing severe energy shortages, with fuel smuggling, damaged or neglected oil and gas infrastructure and the high fuel consumption of domestic vehicles contributing to the problem.

The government is under pressure to address fuel shortages while limiting the impact of higher petrol prices on households and the wider economy.

Pezeshkian has acknowledged the difficulty of imposing further economic pressure on the population.

"People are now on the edge; if I impose another pressure, they may fall off," he said during a televised appearance about domestic petrol prices and inflation.

His administration plans to halve monthly petrol quotas and double the price of one of the three petrol quota tiers. Pezeshkian has avoided broader price increases because they could raise logistics costs and add to inflation, which is already affecting households across the country.

Iranian authorities are increasingly concerned that economic hardship could trigger protests similar to the large antigovernment fuel demonstrations of 2019 and 2020.

IRGC intelligence has said the United States, Israel and their Western allies are shifting towards encouraging "pressure from within" to foment protests.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has described domestic unrest as a distinct security challenge alongside the country's other areas of confrontation.

"The fourth battlefield is the street – the social field," Ghalibaf said, referring to the threat of unrest alongside military, diplomatic and economic battlefields.

Police Chief Ahmad-Reza Radan has ordered continuous monitoring of potential "pretexts" for protests, including petrol prices, unemployment and livelihoods.

I googled Reza Shah and I noticed that the first result is not the Wikipedia Article, which is reasonably accurate but Sponsored Results by Mehdi Alavi, an advocate for "Peace" whose positions coincidentally align with the IRI's, such as opposing American Imperialism (translation: Jealousy that they are more successful than us), opposing Reza Shah and the Shah (translation: Jealousy that they have done more for Iran than he ever could), and opposing Israel (translation: Jealousy that they are more successful than the Palestinians). In the article, he even credits the Mullahs for the fact that "Persia never became a protectorate thanks to the resistance of Shia religious leaders."

But reading the articles, its basically an unhinged, unsourced rant about things that have been widely debunked by Abbas Milani, Yann Richard, or Stephanie Cronin. Such as the the British brought Reza Shah to power in 1921 (truth: The British wanted Seyed Zia-Tabatabai and the British General who is often accused of backing him, General Edmund Ironside, was crashed in a mountain in Hamedan during the coup), Reza Shah looted the Antiquities of Iran (truth: he cancelled the French Archeological Mission and forced the head of it, Andre Godard to work under the Iranian Government), Reza Shah built the Trans-Iranian Railway to support the British (truth: the British vehemently opposed it and wanted a Turkey to Pakistan route to realize Lord Curzon's dream of connecting a the Empire to India), Reza Shah turned people against him by suppressing religion (truth: most people had turned against religion by 1941, and even most mosques were disused due to the general lack of interest, only his son reversed that..), Reza Shah allied with the Nazis and the Iranian Military melted away in 1941 (truth: Reza Shah's closest relationship was with the Czechoslovakians and Scandinavians, and many of the Iranian Military fought bravely but the defense was quickly halted due to Reza Shah refusing to risk the destruction of Iran's infrastructure, including the prevention of the blowing up of the Ahvaz and Veresk Bridges).

Normally, I wouldn't have cared about such rants but the fact that this guy has paid Google to post his idiotic thoughts speaks more to his personality than Reza Shah. Clearly, Mehdi Alavi hasn't learned that if it wasnt for "Reza Shah destroying Iran" he would not be a Texas A&M Engineering graduate making bank in the Free World but a Goat Herding, Chador Wife Beating Mullah in some Dahat. Roohet Shaad Reza Shah Kabir.

در روزهایی که تفاهم‌های مقطعی پشت‌پرده در پهنه بین‌المللی تلاش دارند صدای ملت ایران را نادیده بگیرند، پنجمین گامِ مبتنی بر خِرَدِ دیاسپورا برداشته شد. این ویژه‌نامه سندی زنده از بیداری جامعه‌ای است که با فراخوان‌های ملی شاهزاده رضا پهلوی، انزوا را درهم شکست و زیر چتر پرچم هویت‌بخش شیر و خورشید، بزرگ‌ترین شبکه دیپلماسی شهروندی تاریخ را پایه‌گذاری کرد.

این شماره، مانیفستی است برای عبور از شوک‌های دیپلماتیک و تمرکز بر قدرت درون‌زای همبستگی ملی؛ گامی استوار برای یادآوری این حقیقت که رژیم پلشت اسلامی باید برود و اراده ملت ایران برای آزادی ماندگار است.

نسخه الکترونیک این ویژه‌نامه هم‌اکنون در دسترس تمام آزادی‌خواهان و مبارزان راه میهن است. پرچم را برافراشته نگه می‌داریم تا روز پیروزی نهایی.

لینک دانلود کامل ویژه‌نامه‌ی «رنسانس سیاسی دیاسپورای ایران».

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZx2OItkUjz/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=AO9dmr5tfJfnPvIGtcwpHcx

https://35anj.net/citizen-diplomacy/

The dollar is trading around 225,000 toman right now. A month ago it was around 184,000. That's a jump of around 23% in four weeks on top of a currency that's already lost the majority of its value over the past two decades.

I don't think these numbers mean anything to people outside of Iran unless you see it as a shape. So I took the exchange rate history and ran it through a game that turns price charts into terrain where you ride the chart like a motorbike.

Doroud azizan,

I am trying to figure out, what is happening.

From my understanding, in Iran there is three major influences. Russia (as we are in their sphere of influence, as how they trained etelaat, and as how they will do anything they can to not let Iran fall into American’s hand), CIA and Mossad (obvious reasons), and regime’s ideological forces. China is also an actor, but much less than Russia as we are much closer to Russia. China does gives Iran equipment and intelligence though.

I think, IRGC is split in three factions:
Russia’s
Mossad and CIA’s
Ideological

The actual fight under the hood is between these three, but no one holds absolute power hence, making a coup not likely.

A revolution is almost impossible, as in all modern revolutions, army sides with people (much like 79 and nepal), but with islamic revolutionary guards, that is not possible. Unless army wants to go to civil war with irgc (Russia and ideological faction), which is not much probable.

Israel’s goal appears to be making Iran a failed state. From one hand they fund Kurds, and from another hand, they influence with their psy ops that kurds are seperatists, e.g., wanting a federal state or the right to education in their mother language is seperatism (which is not but i have seen this fallacy numerous times). We are in a climate that unity between Kurds and monarchists seems impossible. I do not think these happened naturally. There is vast amount of money spent on psy ops in Farsi.

RP’s advisors are ex regimi politicians that are now getting money from NUFDi and and FDD which is funded by Israelis, which makes them most likely double agents with leaning more towards Israel. These advisors have pushed iranians toward polarisation, and destroyed the unity we had in the Mahsa charter in georgetown. It was not random that ex regimi and then pahlavi advisor started a disinformation campaign against esmailion, right after the charter was signed, and which was followed by a coordinated social media campaign. Regime wanted to give people hope, and then crush it.

What is your analysis?

Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand and Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, in a joint statement condemning Tehran, urged Iran to immediately cease its "destabilizing activities in the Middle East," pointing specifically to its "continued threats to vessels seeking to transit the Strait of Hormuz," its "pursuit of illicit nuclear activities" and its "support for regional proxy groups.”

They said Ottawa is working closely with G7 partners to support US-led efforts alongside France and the UK to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The joint statement highlighted ongoing support for Operation Economic Outcast, a US-led maximum-pressure sanctions campaign, and any other efforts to disrupt Iran's capability to "finance terrorist activities."

بخشی از سخنان نخست وزیر نتانیاهو در جلسه کابینه به مناسبت آغاز سال نو عبری: دستاوردها عظیم هستند، اما هنوز کارهای بیشتری برای انجام دادن وجود دارد. اولین و مهمترین آن‌ها، سرنگونی جمهوری اسلامی است. این رژیم در ایران - پایانش نزدیک است. ضعیف است، برای بقای خود می‌جنگد، متزلزل است. این کاری هست که باید انجام شود، و ما مصمم به انجام آن هستیم. این قطعاً چهره خاورمیانه و تاریخ مردم ما را تغییر خواهد داد. ما مصمم به انجام این کار هستیم و می‌دانیم که قادر به انجام آن هستیم.