Iran having big problems

[727Sky]

Some good news if true...some police and military laying down arms

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[Ninurta]

things appear to have gone kinetic in Iran.

The IRGC has been called out to massacre the people. The police and Basij have been pulled back to allow maneuver room for the IRGC forces. Since guns are in short supply on the people's side, they have resorted to using their cars to ram and run down the IRGC forces.

Pop some popcorn, and fire up your Tor nodes. The government has shut down internet channels, even for themselves, but Musk has fired up Starlink so in some places, people who have that equipment can bypass the shutdown, since they are not running through "official" internet channels. Once the information gets outside if Iran, Tor nodes can help with information routing and distribution inward and outward.

It might fall all to hell again, but there is little cost and no harm in trying.

Reza Pahalavi sent word in for the people to come out tonight and tomorrow night, and they got the word, coming out in droves.




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No word about it here.

[727Sky]

No word about it here.

Same thing in Iran as they have cut the internet..

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I have been hopeful something at the port would happen.. If true it is going down..

On the 12th day in Iran, the regime lost not only the streets but also the heart of its economy! The port of Bandar Abbas, a key point in the Persian Gulf, and the oil capital Ahvaz fell under the control of protesters. As port workers hoisted the ‘Lion and Sun’ flag on cranes, production at refineries came to a complete halt. This collapse is also ending Russia's logistics line and China's energy security. In this video, we analyse the Khamenei regime's ‘Economic Suicide’ and its global repercussions: THE FALL OF THE PORTS: How did the transfer of control to the people in Bandar Abbas close Russia's ‘Southern Gateway’? ENERGY CHOKEOFF: How did the strikes in Ahvaz shut down 4 million barrels of daily oil production? THE END OF THE PROXIES: With Iran's cash flow cut off, will Hezbollah and the Houthis be able to pay their salaries? TRUMP'S WARNING: How did the US threat to ‘target Khamenei’ scatter the security forces? This map shows where the lifeblood of Iran's economy lies and how the regime lost these critical points.

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Iran has placed its armed forces on the highest level of readiness as violence linked to nationwide protests coincides with rising regional tensions. Demonstrations driven by economic hardship have spread across much of the country, while Iranian leaders warn against foreign pressure and interference. As the government urges restraint at home and signals deterrence abroad, concerns are growing over whether Iran can contain unrest without triggering a wider confrontation.

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Well they are blaming America and Trump therefore the ever popular "Death to America" is back and alive with the hardcore regime supporters. Protestors are being shot ...I wish the population had a way of fighting back other than sacrificing their lives and bodies as the Army is shooting protesters now. 

A great time for a few B-2s to take out the current Iranian leadership.  

[Ninurta]

A great time for a few B-2s to take out the current Iranian leadership.  

IMO, what we need to do at this point is:

1)  Take out anti-air defenses and ballistic missile sites (to prevent retaliation against Israel and US bases in Iraq)

2) bomb IRGC facilities

3) air-drop weapons for the protesters - we have both CIA and Mossad people on the ground there who could co-ordinate and distribute such weapons.

and 4) maybe do a few strafing runs against IRGC/ police/ military masses arrayed against the citizens, just to give the hardliners something to think about.

Taking Khameinei and company out would, in my mind, follow after giving the citizens complete control of the streets. Maybe keep an eye open for choppers heading north without their transponders on, and blot those out of existence too, just in case... I maen, if they're flitting around without transponders, they MUST be up to no good, right?

I think the priority ought to be giving the citizens the streets, because the lackeys they are up against are the more present danger than the "leadership". The "leadership" ain't got the balls to shoot at the people themselves, so they can wait for mop-up operations. In other words, I think priority should be working upward from the most dangerous (to the citizens) at the bottom to the most ruthless at the top.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ira...98804.html

If Iran falls, the United Nations will be first to feel the shockwaves

he grisly images of morgues overflowing with corpses smuggled out of Iran are so shocking, they have silenced the usual apologists for the Islamic Republic.
As Donald Trump mulls some sort of military action to punish Iran’s hardliners for their crackdown, and Nato allies join in the condemnation of the ayatollahs’ brutal regime, it is easy to think that Tehran is isolated.
Sadly, official Western denunciations of repression in Iran are not shared worldwide.
The “usual suspects” – Russia and China – would reap geopolitical benefits from Iran continuing to be a pariah state. Tehran has to sell its oil at a discount to China, and provides up to a quarter of its needs, more important than ever after the Venezuelan crisis. For Putin, a repressive Iran also keeps an energy-rich authoritarian state like Kazakhstan hemmed in and without access to world markets.
It is a paradox that the dramatic weakening of the Islamic Republic’s international position – as its proxies, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, were devastated by Israel, and Assad’s allied regime in Syria collapsed – has removed the incentive for Arab monarchies to back US action against the mullahs now.
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Trump’s decisive intervention in the 12-day war last June removed Saudi and Emirati fears of Iranian sponsorship of Shiite insurrection on their side of the Persian Gulf. What the Arab monarchs there fear is that a democratised Iran could be much more subversive of their authoritarian regimes than a discredited ayatollah-run Iran would be.

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is vocal in his sympathy for Palestinian self-government, but relentlessly hostile to Kurdish aspirations in northern Syria, which his forces have helped the new regime in Damascus to crush. Iran’s large Kurdish minority has been very active in the demonstrations there, but Ankara fears that if change in Tehran meant autonomy, it would ignite the even bigger Kurdish minority in Turkey to demand concessions.
Turkey’s ally Pakistan fears that successful discontent in Iran could reinforce cross-border discontent among the Balochi minority.
A break-up of Iran is a risk – and, while none of these states are going to intervene directly on the regime’s side, they’re using their influence to protect it.
This partly explains the strange silence of the United Nations on the crisis in Iran. As Trump pulls out of UN sub-organisations en bloc, it’s a dirty little secret that its secretary general, Antonio Guterres, needs not just authoritarian states like Iran and its allies, but also the Arab monarchs, in order to keep the UN afloat – even if it’s at the expense of its “humanitarian” ethos.
Iran may yet prove willing to do a deal with Trump to forestall airstrikes on the regime’s key centres of power. The Venezuelan model – after swift decapitation, being allowed to continue with American oversight – has many attractions for Tehran. Minus Nicolas Maduro, the regime in Caracas has survived. It is the American Pope, not the US president, who has received the leader of the opposition there, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado.

The tragedy of Iranians could be that US pressure will cause the Islamic regime to abandon its nuclear ambitions and terrorist proxies as the price of solidifying its control at home. From Trump via the Arab monarchies to China and Russia, there are too many who would prefer the survival of a dictatorial but cynical regime to the “risks” of a different Iran. And the UN bureaucrats would be able to carry on cooperating with its appointees across its myriad committees and working groups.
Of course, there are dangers that an insurrectionary revolution will go sour rather than liberating Iranians. But stabilising the mullahs’ rule could well give their own “revolutionary” aspirations a new lease of life after a “decent interval”.