Iranian Cleric Claims Lingering Aroma of 'Burned Flesh' Near Late Supreme Leader's Compound Is Proof of Divine Favor: turns out he was very wrong

Gone but not forgotten

An Iranian Shi'ite cleric [which, when you consider what religion is generally thought to be, makes the claim of cleric an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp] has confirmed that the blessed scent of "burned flesh" continues to perfume the air near the compound of Iran's late supreme leader, according to video circulated by Iranian media and shared Friday by Iran International.

This is the same Iranian Shi'ite 'cleric' who had once claimed that Ayatollah Khamenei's body odor caused by overdressing in the summer, was also a blessed scent, as was also his flatulence.

"Someone told me that when you go near the Supreme Leader’s compound, you can still smell burned flesh. I went there myself and found it was true — you can still smell burned flesh," the so calledcleric told a nighttime gathering of Islamic Republic supporters in Tehran's Tajrish Square.

The guy further clarified that Western media had wildly understated the glorious intensity of the assault.

“Our leader had a frail body, but contrary to reports that seven or eight bombs were dropped on the site, they hit the Supreme Leader’s compound with 110 bombs and missiles,” he said, slightly exaggerating to the extent by about 102 bombs.

Iran International did not identify the cleric in its X post or provide independent confirmation of his account, though regime loyalists insist the persistent odor serves as a fragrant reminder that martyrdom comes with the ultimate barbecue.

Ironically, it was later discovered that the actual cause of the malodorous environment was a sewer pipe that had ruptured from the attack. 

The cleric is said to be in hiding.

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Iran warns US Navy their ships in Strait of Hormuz are within missile range

Iranian military personnel took part in the “Smart Control of the Strait of Hormuz” exercise in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz on February 16, 2026. (Press Office Of The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A senior Iranian official has issued a stark warning: American warships now sailing through the Strait of Hormuz lie within easy striking range of Iranian missiles. The United States Navy, he declared, is “under our missile launchers.” 

Try not to chuckle.

According to Iran International, Mohsen Rezai, a military adviser to the now deceased Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered the threat in a video that does nothing to calm the rising tensions in one of the world’s most vital waterways.

“The launchers have most likely been moved by our brothers and are now aimed at the Abraham Lincoln and all American warships,” Rezai said. “They are all under our launchers now and we will sink them all. We will not allow a single one to escape us.”

Such language is not new from Tehran, yet it carries the familiar blend of bluster and menace that has long defined the regime’s posture toward the West. 

The Islamic Republic delights in painting itself as the bold David to America’s lumbering Goliath, even as its own economy buckles under sanctions and its people grow restive under clerical rule. One wonders how many times the mullahs must issue these theatrical threats before the world ceases to treat them as serious statements of policy and begins to recognize them for what they are: the desperate posturing of a regime that senses its own fragility.

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IAF devastates Hezbollah: more destruction than 2024 pager attack

Hezbollah, that kooky, crazy, Iran-backed terrorist outfit, saw its command structure across Lebanon take one of the most devastating blows of the war on April 8.

Nearly simultaneously, explosions ripped through Beirut, the Beqaa Valley and southern Lebanon as roughly 50 Israeli aircraft hammered more than 100 Hezbollah targets, blowing many top terrorists into kibbles and bits.

These were not rocket launchers or weapons depots, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, the IDF went after the nerve centers: command rooms, intelligence headquarters and the offices where Hezbollah commanders sat around planning their next round of murder, until shock and awe sent them straight to their celestial goat farm.

The strike marked a new phase in the war between Israel and the Hezbollonians, which kicked off March 2 after the scumcrumpets jumped in to help Iran the day after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Since then, Hezbollah has been lobbing rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles into northern Israel, and sometimes just down the road, while Israel has answered with ever-widening airstrikes and a ground offensive in southern Lebanon.

"Within only a minute, the IDF eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists in three areas simultaneously," the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that the assessment is still ongoing.

Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an IDF spokesman, told Fox News Digital the strike was the result of weeks of intelligence work.

Israeli intelligence agencies had tracked Hezbollah operatives as they shuffled between apartments, offices and safe houses across Lebanon, no longer loving death more than normal people love life.

"The timing had to do with the preparations," Shoshani said. "There was weeks of amazing intelligence."

Asked whether the operation showed Israel still has deep penetration inside Hezbollah despite months of war, Shoshani pointed to the sheer scale of the attack, and one might have noticed a tiny smile at the corner of his mouth.

"The fact that we were able to find 250 terrorists hiding in different locations in Lebanon, many of them in locations for recent weeks, eliminating them in real time, I think the capabilities speak for themselves," he said. The smile grew almost into a grin.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned Wednesday's strikes because he is no fan of Israel and some might say he's a Jew-hating weasel.

"The scale of the killing and destruction in Lebanon today is nothing short of horrific," said United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk. "Such carnage, within hours of agreeing to a ceasefire with Iran, defies belief."

But let us be perfectly clear: There is no active ceasefire specifically between Israel and Hezbollah as of mid-April 2026. Diplomatic talks between Israel and Lebanon have begun or are scheduled, but Israel has rejected pausing operations until Hezbollah is sufficiently degraded. Iran and some others argue the U.S.-Iran truce should extend to Lebanon; Israel and the U.S. disagree. One ceasefire does not translate to a different ceasefire with different operators.

Of course Hezbollah and other terrorist groups would never fire rockets at Israel in the sheer hope of killing Jews during an actual ceasefire, would they?

"This response will continue until the Israeli-American aggression against our country and our people ceases," Hezbollah said in a statement. It must have been backwards Wednesday when he said that.

The strike drew comparisons to the "beeper" operation back in September 2024, when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah operatives exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria in an operation widely attributed to Israel. Many men received transgender transformations when their device went off.

The blasts killed more than 40 people and wounded roughly 4,000, according to Lebanese authorities, while Hezbollah later admitted that about 1,500 fighters were taken out of action. That operation shattered Hezbollah's communications network and set the gold standard in Israel for a strike that actually changed the battlefield.

"The beeper had more . . .  effective injuries. That was the purpose of it," Shoshani said. "But both targeted hundreds of terrorists and within 60 seconds."

Like the beeper operation, he said, the April 8 strike was meant not just to kill terrorists but to throw Hezbollah into complete disarray and create a state of confusion.

"It was important to the aspect of creating disarray, of breaking their chain of command, breaking their command and patrol capabilities and kind of tilting the organization out of balance," he said. A former Israeli intelligence official, speaking on background, said the strike may not have reached the level of the beeper operation, but it appeared to hit an unusually broad layer of Hezbollah's middle ranks.

Hezbollah remains in shock from the blow, according to the former official, even if that has not yet shown up in a drop in its haphazard rocket fire.

But he cautioned against judging the operation only by the body count. The real measure, he said, is whether the strike changes the course of the war and leaves Hezbollah less able to operate.

The IDF said many of those killed were members of Hezbollah's Radwan Force, the group's most capable and best-trained combat unit, along with its intelligence apparatus, missile units and aerial Unit 127.

The Israeli military noted that most of the targets were embedded inside civilian areas where the IDF is inclined not to return fire when engaged in combat, unless it's known the civilians have evacuated."Most of the infrastructure that was struck was located within the heart of the civilian population," the IDF said.

Shoshani said Israel warned civilians to evacuate before the strikes, but Hezbollah simply moved its operatives into new civilian locations. They like to use schools and hospitals if available.

"When we gave the warnings for areas, civilians moved out, then Hezbollah saw that they moved out and started hiding behind civilians in new locations," he said.

Despite the hit, Israeli officials say Hezbollah remains a major threat. Shoshani said the group, which before the war possessed between 150,000 and 200,000 rockets and missiles, still has the ability to fire into Israel.

"They still are a real threat for our civilians," he said.

The strike comes as Israel and Lebanon opened their first direct talks in more than three decades at the U.S. State Department in Washington.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has signaled willingness to discuss normalization and the eventual disarmament of Hezbollah, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted there will be no ceasefire until Hezbollah is dismantled and pushed back from the border.

Within hours of that diplomatic opening, Israeli warplanes struck Lebanon again and Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel.

Because that's how these people operate. Always.

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POTUS says the US is "starting the process of clearing out" Strait of Hormuz

The United States is beginning to clear sea mines laid by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz as the two-week ceasefire remains in effect, President Trump announced on Saturday morning.

Trump said the only threat that Iranian forces had left was that a ship may “bunk” into their sea mines, which the Islamic regime apparently can’t locate. Trump suggested this was the case because Iran doesn’t have the means to retrieve them.

“All 28 of their mine dropper boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea,” he wrote on Truth Social. [You gotta love 'mine dropper boats'. Technically they're called minelayers.]

“We’re now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz as a favor to Countries all over the World, including China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, and many others,” he said. “Incredibly, they don’t have the Courage or Will to do this work themselves.”

Shortly before the announcement, Axios reported several U.S. Navy ships crossed the strait on Saturday in a move that was not coordinated with the Islamic regime.

Iranian state media reported that Tehran threatened to attack a U.S. destroyer if it continued sailing toward the Strait of Hormuz, communicating their warning to a mediator in Pakistan. The U.S. did not receive word of such a warning, according to an Axios reporter.

Both sides are engaging in peace talks in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Saturday after a tentative deal to pause the fighting was made earlier this week. Vice President JD Vance is heading the U.S. delegation.

A U.S. official said the operation was “focused on freedom of navigation through international waters,” referring to the sea mine recovery efforts.

Trump continues to boast that much of Iran’s military capabilities are destroyed and its senior leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been killed.

“Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft apparatus is nonexistent, Radar is dead, [not Radar O'Reilly from M*A*S*H* since capitalizing that word might have confused older readers] their Missile and Drone Factories have been largely obliterated along with the Missiles and Drones themselves and, most importantly, their longtime ‘Leaders’ are no longer with us, praise be to Allah,” he said in a comment appearing to mock Islam.

Look, this is classic Trump, turning a military mop-up into a global public service announcement while the mullahs are still pretending they have a navy. The Iranians spent years bragging about their "asymmetric warfare" with those cheap little mine boats, and now all 28 of them are decorating the seafloor like some kind of underwater parking lot for losers.

The man is out here doing the world a solid, clearing the Strait of Hormuz so China and Europe do not have to get their soft little hands dirty, and they are still too cowardly to say thank you. 

Meanwhile, Tehran is issuing threats through Pakistani middlemen like it's 1979 all over again. Newsflash, guys, your destroyers are at the bottom of the ocean, your leaders are checking in with Allah and the Goats, and nobody in Washington even got the memo on your big scary warning.

This is what winning looks like when you actually have a president who is not interested in managed decline. The mullahs are finished, their toys are smashed, and Trump is out here mocking them in their own holy language. Praise be, indeed.

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Ali Larijani [aka Lory Jane] threatened Trump and POTUS answered: BAHDAHBING!

Ali Larijani, one of the most powerful mullahs in Iran's theocratic clown show, got himself taken out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after spending months yapping threats at President Donald Trump and U.S. service members like he was auditioning for a starring role in his own demise. Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar confirmed the strike, pointing out that Larijani had a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head.

“Ali Larijani had a $10 million prize on his head. We did it for free,” Sa’ar said.

The 67-year-old hardliner had popped up as Tehran's go-to mouthpiece after getting tapped to head the National Security Council in the wake of that 12-day war mess. He was fingered for running the regime's savage January crackdown on protests, which racked up over 30,000 dead by some counts. The U.S. slapped sanctions on him for being one of the first to “call for violence” against the demonstrators.

In the lead-up to his dirt nap, Larijani was all over social media, slinging increasingly unhinged warnings at the United States, including direct threats against President Donald Trump and promises to “hunt down” American troops.

This guy was a regime lifer, holding down gigs like head of Iran's state broadcaster, chief nuclear negotiator, security adviser to the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and speaker of parliament until 2020. He was tight with the IRGC, that delightful U.S.-designated terrorist outfit, and even commanded during the Iran-Iraq War.

Sure, some left-wing journalists tried to paint him as the pragmatic type you could sit down and negotiate with, but in January he was out there saying Iran would have “no choice” but to go nuclear if the U.S. or Israel hit them. On March 1, after the U.S. strike, he declared Iran “will not negotiate with the United States.”

Since January, The New York Times was claiming he was basically running Iran because Khamenei handed him the wheel amid the protests and the looming war vibes with the U.S. and Israel. Just last week, Larijani was posting pics and videos from a Quds Day protest in Iran, mingling with the crowds like he was untouchable and the regime was rock-solid.

“Mr. Hegseth! Our leaders have been, and still are, among the people. But your leaders? On Epstein’s island!” he tweeted.

In another post about the protest, he blathered that the combo of brave people, brave officials, and brave leaders “cannot be defeated.”

Larijani never bothered toning down the crazy. In the weeks before the IDF turned him into yesterday's news, he was flooding social media with tough-guy threats aimed at the U.S. military, regional allies, and President Donald Trump. Here are some highlights from the greatest hits collection:

“We will make the Zionist criminals and the shameless Americans regret their actions. The brave soldiers and the great nation of Iran will deliver an unforgettable lesson to the hellish international oppressors.” (2/28/2026)

“To the countries of the region: We are not seeking to attack you. But when the bases located in your country are used against us, and when the United States carries out operations in the region relying on these forces, then we will target those bases. For these bases are not part of the land of those countries; rather, they are American soil.” (3/1/2026)

America and the Zionist regime have scorched the heart of the Iranian nation. We will scorch their hearts… (3/1/2026)

“TRUMP HAS BETRAYED “AMERICA FIRST” TO ADOPT ‘ISRAEL FIRST.’” (3/2/2026)“Iran, unlike the United States, has prepared itself for a long war…We will fiercely defend ourselves and our six thousand years old civilization regardless of the costs and will make the enemies sorry for their miscalculation.” (3/2/2026)

“Trump’s wishful thinking has dragged the whole region into an unnecessarily war and now he is rightly worried about more American casualties. It is indeed very sad that he is sacrificing American treasure and blood to advance Netanyahu’s illegitimate expansionist ambitions.” (3/2/2026)

“The story has not ended yet, and the martyrdom of Imam Khamenei will come at a heavy price for you, God willing.” (2/4/2026)

“Some American officials have said that they intend to enter Iran on the ground with a few thousand troops. The valiant children of Imam Khomeini and Imam Khamenei are waiting for you to expose those corrupt American officials with a few thousand killed and captured. The land of Iran is no place for the hellish dance of demons.” (3/5/2026)

“It has been reported to me that several American soldiers have been taken prisoner. But the Americans claim that they have been killed in action. Despite their futile efforts, the truth is not something they can hide for too long.” (3/7/2026)

“When the enemy attacks us from bases in the region, we respond — and we will continue to respond. This is our right and a standing policy. Regional countries must either prevent the US from using their territory against Iran, or we will have no choice but to do it ourselves.” (3/7/2026)“Some American soldiers have been captured. They are lying that 5-6 American soldiers have been killed. Later, they will inflate the number of deaths under the pretext of an accident too.” (3/7/2026)

“We won’t let #Trump off the hook; he must pay the price—he’s martyred our leader and our people. This isn’t a simple matter; we won’t let it go until we retaliate in kind.” (3/7/2026)

“The Ashura-loving nation of Iran does not fear your hollow threats. Those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation. Watch out for yourself lest you be eliminated!” (3/10/2026)

“Trump has said ‘we can take apart Iran’s electric capacity within one hour, but we have not done it.’ Well, if they do that, the whole region will go dark in less than half an hour and darkness provides ample opportunity to hunt down US servicemen running for safety.” (3/12/2026)

“Trump says he is looking for a speedy victory. While starting a war is easy, it cannot be won with a few tweets. We will not relent until making you sorry for this grave miscalculation. #TrumpMustPay” (3/12/2026)

Talk about going out on a high note of delusional bluster. The IDF just sent the invoice for that $10 million bounty, courtesy of the free market in consequences.

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Buxom daughter of senior Islamic Republic of Iran leader fired from Emory Medical School

Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani and her teeth

Ali Larijani sits at the heart of Iran's top leadership. He enforces the brutal crackdown on protesters that has now claimed at least 36,500 lives and left 330,000 wounded. He rails against the Great Satan, America, and even more fiercely against the Little Satan, Israel. Just two weeks ago he claimed the only people on the streets in Iranian cities were Mossad agents. He also blamed Trump for the protests, because Trump and the Jews obviously run the world and all that happens in it.

An Iranian defector has called Larijani the mastermind behind the massacre of protesters. See more in "Ali Larijani Masterminded the Massacre says Former Official," IranWire, January 18, 2026:

According to a former Islamic Republic official, speaking to IranWire through a traveler, Ali Larijani, the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, has been at the center of the January 2026 crackdown. The source says Larijani is positioning himself for the post-Khamenei era, using his close ties with IRGC commanders and intelligence agencies, along with his family's connections to senior clerics, to build support across different factions and prepare to lead the system after Khamenei's death.

Larijani hails from a powerful clerical dynasty. His father, Mirza Hashem Amoli, was a prominent Shia Grand Ayatollah and a key figure at the Qom Seminary before the Revolution. His eldest brother, Mohammad Javad Larijani, served as a senior diplomat and Deputy Foreign Minister. His younger brother, Sadeq Larijani, is a seminary professor in Qom and a former Chief Justice of the Islamic Republic. Sadeq is often named as a potential successor to Khamenei.

Ali Larijani was naturally delighted when his daughter, the plump and pampered offspring of the regime's sinister elite, landed a teaching position at a U.S. medical school. Iranian exiles have long complained that the children of their oppressors study in the West, with tuition and living costs covered by funds their fathers stole from Iran's treasury. Then these same children secure jobs in the West as post-grads. They are the golden youth of Iran's nomenklatura. Now the daughter of this same Ali Larijani, one of Iran's worst non-clerical killers, has lost her teaching job at Emory Medical School. More details on her justified dismissal appear in "Daughter of top Iranian official who led regime crackdown fired from US medical school," Times of Israel, January 25, 2026:

The daughter of a top Iranian official has been dismissed from employment at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, following US sanctions on her father in the wake of the Iranian regime's brutal crackdown on protesters, according to the university’s newspaper Saturday.

Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani is the daughter of Ali Larijani, senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and has served as assistant professor at Emory's medical school, teaching hematology and medical oncology at the prestigious southern US university.

"A physician who is the daughter of a senior Iranian government official is no longer an employee of Emory," said the university's Winship Cancer Institute, following requests for comment from media.

"Because this is a personnel matter, we are unable to provide additional information," an Emory spokesperson added.

Ardeshir-Larijani's dismissal from Emory came some two weeks after sanctions were placed on her father by the US Treasury Department, in response to his alleged role masterminding the regime’s crackdown on protests that rocked the country this month.

In announcement of the sanctions earlier this month, the treasury said that Ali Larijani "is responsible for coordinating the response to the protests on behalf of the Supreme Leader of Iran and has publicly called for Iranian security forces to use force to repress peaceful protesters."…

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency on Saturday put the death toll at 5,137, with the number expected to increase. More than 27,700 people have been arrested, it said. Those earlier figures on deaths and wounded have been overtaken by the latest estimates, accepted by Iran International, TIME journalists, and American analysts with sources among medical personnel in Iran. They conclude that at least 36,500 protesters have been killed, and 330,000 wounded, by the IRGC, the Basij, and the police.

Was it wrong to fire Larijani’s daughter? Is she just an innocent who should not pay for her father's crimes? No. She, her father, and the rest of the Iranian elite who torture and murder their opponents while ensuring their own families enjoy Western freedoms for study and even teaching are not innocent. We need to drive home to that elite that their children are no longer welcome in the West. Their fathers cannot keep slaughtering tens of thousands in Iran and expect their kids to face zero consequences.

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Larijani’s daughter has lived as one of the most privileged children of the Iranian elite. Her father, once in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and head of regime security, now serves as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and a key architect of the latest murderous crackdown. In the past month of bloodshed she could have spoken out against the regime. 

She could have joined exile demonstrations here in America. She could have signed a protest letter. She did none of those things.

She has been fired from Emory. Now it is time to send Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani back to her country, where her murderous father and his ilk will welcome her. She has overstayed her welcome here long enough.

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At least 36 killed during Iran protests

Once again, the streets of Iran bear witness to the predictable brutality of a regime that has long since forfeited any claim to legitimacy. In the past ten days alone, and as of this writing, at least 36 lives have been extinguished amid protests that began as cries of economic despair but have swiftly revealed the deeper rot at the heart of the Islamic Republic.

According to the exile-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), 34 of the dead were protesters, with just two affiliated with the security forces. The authorities in Tehran, true to form, have offered no official tally but insist only three of their own have fallen. BBC Persian, meanwhile, has verified the identities of 15 victims.

HRANA reports over 60 injuries and more than 2,076 arrests as the unrest—ignited by economic collapse—has reached 27 of Iran's 31 provinces.

On Tuesday evening, semi-official media claimed a policeman was shot dead by "rioters" in Malekshahi, Ilam province, scene of recent widespread demonstrations and a ferocious crackdown. Earlier that day, footage showed security forces unleashing tear gas on crowds in Tehran's Grand Bazaar chanting slogans against the clerical rulers.

Protesters are wisely removing surveillance cameras around the various towns.

The demonstrations erupted on 28 December when shopkeepers in the capital protested the latest plunge in the rial against the dollar. Over the past year, the currency has hit record lows, inflation has soared to 40%, and sanctions—compounded by chronic mismanagement and corruption, have strangled an already frail economy.

Students soon joined the merchants, and the protests spread to other cities.

Then came President Donald Trump's blunt warning of American intervention should security forces slaughter peaceful demonstrators: "We are locked and loaded and ready to go." The following day, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who wields, or wielded ultimate authority, insisted that "rioters should be put in their place" and vowed not to "yield to the enemy." Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei followed suit, promising to hear those with "legitimate" livelihood grievances while vowing zero leniency for "rioters."

UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep sadness over the reported deaths and injuries, with his spokesman stressing "the need to prevent any further casualties" and insisting: "All individuals must be allowed to protest peacefully and express their grievances."

Verified footage from Tuesday's clashes in the Grand Bazaar shows crowds chanting "Death to the dictator," an unmistakable reference to Khamenei, before fleeing clouds of tear gas and shouting "Dishonorable" at riot police. 

State-aligned Fars news agency dismissed these as "sporadic gatherings" over prices, quickly dispersed.

Elsewhere in Tehran, protests flared at markets and junctions; in Ilam province, large crowds marched through Abdanan. One clip showed police on a rooftop apparently waving in response to calls for their support; another captured protesters scattering rice into the air in defiance.Yet Fars also reported a police officer "directly hit by rioters' bullets" in Malekshahi.

On Monday, President Masoud Pezeshkian's office announced he had ordered the interior ministry to investigate the unrest in Ilam, prompted by outrage over footage appearing to show security forces storming Imam Khomeini Hospital, where wounded protesters were sheltering. 

Amnesty International condemned the raid, stating Revolutionary Guards and police "used shotguns and fired tear gas into the grounds, smashed glass doors to gain access, and beat those inside, including medical workers. The Iranian security forces' attack . . . violates international law and exposes yet again how far the Iranian authorities are willing to go to crush dissent," the group declared.

The US State Department's Persian-language account branded the hospital assault a "clear crime against humanity."

Kurdish rights group Hengaw reported protesters treated there had been wounded in clashes outside a government compound in Malekshahi, where it verified five deaths, including a retired brigadier-general, while semi-official sources claimed three fatalities when "rioters" attacked a security facility. 

Hengaw says it has confirmed at least 25 killings overall, including four children. Norway-based Iran Human Rights counts at least 27 protesters dead, among them five children, across eight provinces. Its director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, warned: "The Islamic Republic has a well-documented record of bloody repression and mass killings of protesters in past uprisings. Now, as the regime is more unstable than ever and seriously fears for its survival, there is a grave concern that the scale of repression this time may be even more violent and widespread than before."

These are the most sustained protests since the 2022 uprising triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish woman arrested for allegedly improper hijab. That revolt saw over 550 killed and 20,000 detained in a merciless crackdown, according to human rights monitors.

What we are watching is not mere economic discontent but the slow unraveling of a theocracy that has squandered its people's patience, and, perhaps, its time.

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BREAKING: Iran Begins Civil War: Shots fired and Iran Conducts a Ballistic Missile Test

Iran forces have begun shooting Iranian protesters as unrest has gone full-on. 

AK 47s have been used inside police stations as the Revolutionary Guards have been firing at the protesters. It seems that a 300$ inflation rate has angered the public as the Iranian rial has become as useful as toilet paper in Asia. 

The people are chanting that "this is the final battle," and "death to Khamenei," and it's beginning to look like the mainstream media might even report on the situation.

The IRGC thugs have been kidnapping people off the streets. 

The street scenes are chaotic.

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have sent words of support to the brave people of Iran who are out in the streets protesting the regime, being shot at and as mentioned, some are being kidnapped.

The Trump administration has put additional sanctions on Iran.

As there is no Second Amendment, since there's no Constitution, in Iran, the people are helpless against the IRGC goons.

As mentioned in the title, Iran has conducted ballistic missile test, after the warning by Trump to cease and desist. 

Obviously, this is an ongoing situation and more will follow.

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Iran accuses Israeli military of using the occult--can I get an LOL

Yeoh, buckle up, because Iran’s dropping some wild claims about Israel’s playbook in their 12-day war.

Abdollah Ganji, ex-boss of the IRGC’s mouthpiece Javan, took to X to spill the tea to his 150,000 crazed followers. The guy is out here saying Israel was straight-up summoning “the occult and supernatural spirits” to win the fight. Try not to laugh, you read that right: black magic and ghostbusters-level shenanigans. Iran International caught this gem on Friday, and it’s pure chaos, albeit of the laughable kind.

Ganji’s post on Wednesday was like something out of a sci-fi flick or just a bad joke. 

He said, “After the recent war, a few sheets of paper were found on the streets of Tehran containing talismans with Jewish symbols.” 

Say what? He’s doubling down, claiming that back in the Gaza war’s first year, word got out about Netanyahu chilling with "occult specialists." Like, Bibi’s out here holding séances or something? Ganji [not to be confused with ganja] even dragged the Supreme Leader into it, quoting him saying, "Hostile countries and Western and Hebrew intelligence services use occult sciences and jinn entities for espionage." 

Grok 3 concept of a jinn

Jinn. Freaking jinn. You know, those shape-shifting, superpower-wielding spirits from folklore? Apparently, they’re Mossad’s new interns.

Mossad’s Farsi X account wasn’t having it. They clapped back on Tuesday with a savage, "Using drugs and talking to the jinn are not desirable traits for someone leading a country." Oof, shots fired. Then Waleed Gadban, Israel’s political advisor at the UN, jumped in, reposting Mossad’s burn with a cheeky, “Jinn, jinn are everywhere,” complete with a ghost emoji. I'm almost peeing.

So, Iran’s out here accusing Israel of weaponizing the supernatural, while Israel’s like, "Bruh, lay off the hookah." This is peak 2025 geopolitics, and I’m just here for the popcorn, and maybe a talisman or two.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Confirms Major Damage to Nuclear Sites, Contradicting Ayatollah’s Claims

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi revealed in a state TV interview that U.S. military strikes caused significant damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities, despite Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s claim that the impact was minimal.

Araghchi stated, “the level of damage is high, and it’s serious damage,” according to the Associated Press.
Assessments after the strikes show that Iran’s nuclear sites were heavily damaged in both U.S. and Israeli attacks. Iran, Israel, and the U.S. agree on the extent of the damage, despite a leaked intelligence report suggesting otherwise.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, however, in spite of hiding in a hole somewhere and not seeing the result of the attack for himself, downplayed the impact, saying, “the Americans failed to achieve anything significant in their attack on nuclear facilities.” 

He seems more focused on appearing strong than acknowledging the truth. He called Iran’s attack on the U.S. airbase Al-Udeid in Qatar a “heavy slap to the U.S.’s face,” while President Donald Trump called it a “very weak response” and thanked Iran for providing “early notice.”

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confirmed on Tuesday that the agency observed “extensive damage at several nuclear sites in Iran, including its uranium conversion and enrichment facilities.”

Araghchi also discussed the possibility of resuming talks with the U.S., noting that the strikes “made it more complicated and more difficult” but did not completely rule out negotiations.

Nuclear talks were already uncertain before the U.S.’s Operation Midnight Hammer, as Iran accused the U.S. of being “complicit” in Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, according to Reuters, citing Iranian U.N. Ambassador Ali Bahreini.

On Wednesday, President Trump expressed hope about restarting nuclear talks with Iran, stating, “We’re going to talk to them next week, with Iran. We may sign an agreement, I don’t know. To me, I don’t think it’s that necessary. I mean, they had a war. They fought. Now they're going back to their world. I don't care if I have an agreement or not. The only thing we would be asking for is what we're asking for before about, we want no nuclear [program]. But we destroyed the nuclear.”

Despite Trump’s comments, there are no confirmed plans for the two countries to meet soon.

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Latest info on Iran-Israel war

As of now, we know that Mossad has eliminated 14 nuclear scientists. Most of these were direct successors of the initial nuclear weapons program.

Putin told any Russians in Iran must leave now. Trump already made that announcement to Americans.

There is a massive flood in Tehran as a water infrastructure has been hit and power plants have also been hit. The city is flooding and the lights are going to be out, apparently.

Over the last few hours there have been mass evacuations in the capital as people whose goal at this time is not to die, flee the city. The IDF gave the citizens an early warning asking them to leave because Israel does its best not to kill non-combatants. 

Isfahan is being hit by ballistic missiles in Isfahan as this is being written.

The Justice Ministry has ironically been destroyed by the IDF so they aren't taking any phone calls anytime soon. This department had been responsible for putting many of Iran's citizens to death, for such things that American leftists do reflexively, or with how they identify. 

Intelligence Headquarters 

We have just learned the President Donald Trump does not want Israel to eliminated the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, possibly because when all is said and done, the guy kind of looks Jewish . . . or is it a fake left?

This is not what Trump wants to see happen

Also gone but not forgotten is the IRGC Intelligence HQ. The head and deputy head of intel have been eliminated along with the building's snack bar.

The greater Tehran police headquarters, the main HQ for the country, has also been destroyed. [See the video below.] There have been reports that the Police Cheif of Tehran has also been given his 72 goats.

The people who have remained in Tehran have taken to the streets chanting "Death to Khamenei." So while President Trump doesn't want the old guy killed, Iranians who suffered under his rule have a different opinion.

Below is a somewhat current scorecard of the results of the IDF's efforts to end this terrorist Iranian regime.

The Foreign Ministry of Tehran has also been hit and destroyed by the IAF.

The HQ for the Iranian navy is also gone and soon forgotten.

The IRGC has just now launched another round of missile attacks, which means that Israel will return the favor in spades.

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Am Yisrael Chai.

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The IDF's hits of the week starring IRGC leaders and the nuclear scientists who loved them

The Hits Keep Coming

Based on the reports from a number of media outlets, Israel has eliminated numerous IRGC leaders and nuclear scientists who have been working feverishly to destroy Israel. "It ain't over until the Ayatollah meets his goats, but it's a good start," an anonymous source told Brain Flushings.

Anyway, the latest information from recent reports, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) June 12-13 strikes on Iran sent a number of high-ranking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders to meet their goats. These attacks also killed nuclear scientists.

Below is a list of these scumcrumpets confirmed or reported to have been killed in these strikes. Some of these reports may be subject to verification, but we can cross our collective fingers and hope that they are accurate. After all, don't they say that they love death more than we love life? Let's make them happy.

Our first IRGC dead dude is Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami [on rye]. He was Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC but the strike on the IRGC headquarters blew him to smithereens. This guy was a top figure in Iran's military and political arena and he reportedly reported directly to Supreme Leader and Hide-and-Go-Seek Champion Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Maj. Gen. Salami

Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri also made the hit list. This 'Mo' was Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces. He was the highest-ranking military official in Iran, but alas, he was blown to little bite-size pieces in Tehran. Prior to his untimely demise, Bagheri oversaw Iran's armed forces, you know who they are--they're the guys who march funny. However, the guy may still be alive according to some Iranian propaganda sources. His wives pray he is safe and remains the very model of a modern Major General.

Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri 

Maj. Gen. Gholam [My Precious] Ali Rashid could run but he couldn't outrun an air-to-ground missile. We don't know if the IAF got him with a Sparrow ALBM, a Popeye missile with datalink capabilities or a sweet Rafael Spike Precision-Guided Missile with their high accuracy and ability to engage both moving and stationary targets, but Rashid didn't care and never knew what hit him and his son in the airstrike. Rashid was involved in the unmanned aerial vehicle program (UAV) but it was a manned [or possibly a womaned] aerial vehicle that did him in. We don't know if it was an F-35I Adir, a nice, stealthy jet; an F-16I Sufa, based on the Lockheed Martin F-35; or the F-15 Ra'am with its heavy payload capacity. But again, Rashid didn't care. He got what he wanted and more.

Golham Ali Rashid

Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force. His father wanted to name him Mohammed, but his mother insisted on Amir as it's so much cooler, she said. Anyway, Amir was blown into kibbles and bits in an airstrike that destroyed an underground command center in Tehran. He was sent on an emergency meeting to discuss future plans with a guy named Cassem Soleimani, and was told to grab a shovel and stoke the fires. The guy was responsible for Iran's ballistic missile and drone attacks on Israel in 2024.

Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh,

Taher-pour, Commander of the IRGC’s UAV Force in the Aerospace Force. He was killed alongside Hajizadeh in the strike on the underground command center, which ended up saving a lot of money in the cost of bunker-buster bombs.

Davoud Shayhkian, Commander of the Aerial Command of the IRGC’s Air Force. Also killed in the same strike on the underground command center with Hajizadeh. It's beginning to look like that strike did a lot of good work for humanity.

Davoud Shayhkian's last known location

And then there's old Doc. Fereydoun Abbasi, a nuclear scientist and former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (2011–2013). Abbasi was killed in the strikes, reportedly along with his wife and child. He was a prominent figure in Iran’s nuclear program and sadly, he had previously survived an assassination attempt in 2010.

Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, another nuclear scientist and president of Islamic Azad University, where he and his comrades worked feverishly to find a final solution, if you know what I mean. Mo was involved in Iran’s nuclear weapons program and he too was eliminated and confirmed dead by Iranian state media. He will always be remembered as a guy with a mission: destroy Israel and everyone who lives there. 

Dr. Abdulhamid Minouchehr. He was a faculty member and dean of the Faculty of Nuclear Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University, where his students blew up so fast. He was eliminated in the strikes and confirmed by Iranian state media. Along with Abdul [as his friend called him] was Dr. Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, a professor at the same joint as Mo.

Gone and forgotten is Dr. Seyed Amir Hossein Faghihi and so forth, a nuclear scientist at the Shahid Beheshti University [GO Camels!] where he taught the kids how to blow stuff up around Israelis.

Hopefully, this is just the beginning of the end of Iran's nuclear capabilities. The Ayatollah has fled because he has changed his mind about loving death as formally advertised. 

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Khamenei goes verbally ballistic on Trump after Middle East visit

If you're an American or Israeli and have pissed off Iran's Supreme Leader for Life, the one, the only, Ayatollah Khamenei, you must be doing something right. 

Enter Donald Trump.

Fresh off President Donald Trump’s Middle East tour, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decided to throw a tantrum on X this Saturday, unloading a venomous rant against America and Israel. The guy’s got a PhD in hating the West, and he’s not shy about it, calling Trump a flat-out liar and demanding the Jewish state be wiped off the map.

So what else is new? They don't seem to have fresh material.

“Trump said he wants to use power for peace. He’s lying,” Khamenei posted, doubling down with, “Some of the remarks made during the US President’s trip to the region aren’t even worth a response at all. The level of those remarks is so low that they are a source of shame for the American nation.” 

Let’s get real: Iran’s been on Washington’s terrorism naughty list since the ‘80s. This isn’t just some grumpy old fart yelling at clouds—Khamenei’s regime is the world’s top dog when it comes to state-sponsored anti-Semitism, per the Trump admin. He called Israel, America’s ride-or-die ally in the region, a “cancerous tumor” that needs to be “uprooted.” 

For a man of the so called cloth, he's quite a Jew-hating, America-hating scumcrumpet.

Khamenei didn’t stop at Israel. He took swings at Sunni Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who’ve got the U.S.’s back in the Middle East. “This failed model, where Arab states are told they can’t survive ten days without US support, is being imposed again. But it will collapse, and America will leave this region,” he sneered. 

The 86-year-old revolutionary Islamist and open supporter of terrorism, who’s been at this longer than most of us have been alive, claims the U.S. is hell-bent on keeping these countries hooked on American power like it’s some geopolitical drug. “The US wants these countries unable to function without it—that’s the message in their behavior and their proposals,” he claimed.

Then he pivoted to Gaza, accusing the U.S. of bankrolling a bloodbath. Did he mean what Hamas did to 1200 Israelis in one day, or was he talking about something else?

“The US has used its power to massacre in Gaza, to stoke war wherever possible, and to arm its mercenaries,” Khamenei bloviated. Quick reminder: Hamas sucks the teat of Iran, and is the U.S.-designated terror group that stormed Israel onOctober 7, 2023, and Khamenei is the cheerleader of the Hamassholes.

Trump, meanwhile, wasn’t pulling punches during his stops in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. He called Iran’s regime the Middle East’s chaos kingpin. “The biggest and most destructive of these forces is the regime in Iran, which has caused unthinkable suffering in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen and beyond,” he said in Saudi Arabia. This is probably what got Khamenei's skivvies twisted.

Alireza Nader, a D.C.-based Iran expert, spoke with Fox News Digital. He said that Iran is losing bigly to the IDF, and Iranians are hoping to get rid of the regime.

 “President Trump has an overwhelming advantage in the negotiations and could severely restrict and limit the regime’s nuclear program,” Nader said. 

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Trump’s made it clear he wants a deal to slam the brakes on Iran’s illegal nuclear ambitions. In his speech, he told Tehran to drop the atomic bomb dreams. “While you have been constructing the world’s tallest skyscrapers in Jeddah and Dubai, Tehran’s 1979 landmarks are collapsing into rubble,” Trump jabbed, adding, “[Iran’s] corrupt water mafia . . . causes droughts and empty riverbeds. They get rich.” 

Khamenei’s out here screaming into the void, but with Iran’s military limping like Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Trump holding the cards, the Ayatollah's bluster might just be the sound of a regime running out of moves.

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Waltz tells Iran to give up their nukes program "or there will be consequences"

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Iran on Sunday that if they refuse to dump their entire nuclear program, they will face consequences.

Waltz, appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," said that it's time for Iran to "walk away completely" from its pursuit of nuclear weapons, pushing for a "full dismantlement." 

"This isn't some kind of, you know, kind of tit-for-tat that we had under the Obama administration or Biden," Waltz said. "This is the full program. Give it up or there will be consequences."

Waltz obviously didn't tip his hand by saying exactly what those consequences would be, but he was clear that President Trump is keeping "all options on the table," and didn't rule out diplomacy.

He went on to explain that the administration wants Iran, the largest sponsor of global terrorism, to ditch its nuclear program "in a way that the entire world can see."

"If [Iran] had nuclear weapons, the entire Middle East would explode in an arms race," Waltz said. "That is completely unacceptable to our national security. I won't get into what the back-and-forth has been, but Iran is in the worst place it has been from its own national security since 1979."

Since Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel immediately after Hamas attacked the Jewish state on October 7, 2023, tensions between Tehran and the US have been very high. And to increase that tension, Iran directly fired upon Israel twice in 2024.

Never a blushing flower, President Trump threatened to use the military if Iran doesn't negotiate a new agreement on its nuclear program. Although Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he isn't interested in talks with a "bullying government," he's been reported to have been changing his skivvies on unusually high occasions and Iranian diplomats such as Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had previously suggested talks could be the way to go. However, he talked tougher once Khamenei made his comment.

The original 2015 nuclear deal negotiated under former weak President Barack Obama allowed Iran to enrich uranium up to only 3.67% purity and to maintain a uranium stockpile of 661 pounds. The International Atomic Energy Agency's last report on Iran’s program put its stockpile at 18,286 pounds as it enriches a fraction of it to 60% purity. And we can bet that Iran was secretly enriching uranium much higher than that level of purity.

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U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Iran has yet to begin a weapons program, but has "undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so."

Anyone who knows anything about the Iranian mindset is aware that once they produce a nuclear weapon, they are not going to allow it to collect dust.

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What's going on with Iran's Ayatollah?

Is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei really sick or is he worried that Israel has a target on his back and he plans to go into hiding to avoid getting himself 'droned.'

Tehran’s top clerics are supposedly ready to choose a new supreme leader to replace the allegedly ailing Ayatollah, as per a recently published report by Iran International, a British-based, Saudi-sponsored dissident Farsi tv network. 

The report claims that Khamenei, 85,  who has ruled since 1989, is suffering from a medical condition which is increasingly impairing his ability to lead the country.

The 60-member Assembly of Experts, a council of Tehran’s top state Shi’ite clerics, met on September 26th at the behest of Khamenei to select his successor, the report claimed. They debated, evaluated, micturated and deliberated and eventually voted unanimously [under penalty of death, one supposes] to designate Khamenei's loyal son, Mojtaba Khamenei, 55, as Iran's next terrorist leader.

Mojtaba [let's call him Mo] teaches Islamic theology [e.g., jihad, sharia, anti-Semitism] for Qom Seminary, which is Iran's largest hawza school. Mo is a hardline Islamic terrorist supporter, which means that he's on board with the total annihilation of the world's Jews and eventually Christians.

Mo backed Holocaust denier, the then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and is thought to have a strong influence on his father’s anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic politics.

The report also suggests that Mo may have been in the camel's seat even before his father's death, due to Ali Khamenei's deteriorating physical condition and diminishing capabilities. It was also said that his father groomed Mo to replace him during his own lifetime and had considered stepping down to make way for the transition of power.

But the possibility also exists that Ali is planning to hide out from the IDF and their aircraft.

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Khamenei orders another attack on Israel: report

Warning: Not everything below is absolute fact, but hey, it's me. 

The White House has warned Iran not to respond to Israel's response to their attack with a wag of the finger and the overpowering word: "Don't."

Be that as it may, Iran's supreme leader for life [with a timeline of hit or miss] has told their Supreme National Security Council to get ready for another assault on the, you know, Jews, as reported by the former newspaper, The New York Times on Thursday.

The Times' report cited three Iranian officials saying Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reviewed a report from his senior military commanders regarding the extent of damage caused by those, you know, Jews, and decided on Monday to strike back lest he lose his credibility with his fellow Jew haters. Israel's strike hit their missile production capabilities, air defense systems which were soon exploited by the IDF, and critical energy infrastructure as well as a main port.

Khamenei, who dressed as a rabbi for Halloween, reportedly told his band of terrorists that the scope of Israel's October 26 spanking of their military capabilities was “too large to ignore.”

The sources said that military commanders were readying a list of dozens of targets inside Israel, but they would likely attack after the U.S. Presidential election on November 5, due to the concern in Tehran that additional tensions in the region could cause former President Donald Trump to win the election, because they know Harris is not capable of dealing with real problems and they would rather see her in office.

Earlier Thursday, two sources in Jerusalem told Axios, a left-leaning company, that Israeli intelligence suggests the Islamic Republic was preparing to attack the Jewish state from Iraq within the coming days.

The sources said the attack was expected to be carried out “using a large number of drones and ballistic missiles” because they have given up on the claim that they love death more than we love life.

On Thursday night, the Israel Defense Forces announced that aerial defense systems intercepted two drones that approached the country’s territory “from the east,” a phrase the military uses to refer to Iraq.

White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre warned the Islamic Republic on Wednesday not to respond to Israel’s Oct. 26 airstrikes, with the stern conjunction, "don't." 

Should Tehran choose to do so, “The United States will be standing by to assist Israel in its defense,” she added. Her remarks echoed those of U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, who is not gay, stressed on Wednesday that Iran “should not respond.”

Israeli officials said that "it would be a mitzvah [good deed] if Iran just let bygones be bygones."

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