Iranian crowd attempts to stop the hanging of 2 men to no avail

Just before dawn on Tuesday, hundreds of Iranians gathered in Isfahan in the hope of preventing the hanging of two young men.

The security forces instead dispersed the crowd with violence and publicly executed 25-year-old Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and 28-year-old Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi. Both men had been convicted on charges arising from clashes which the Iranian authorities claim left four security officers dead.

Human rights groups state that the sentences followed proceedings marked by allegations of torture, forced confessions and closed-door trials.These executions form part of the regime’s response to the nationwide uprising that began in late December, after a currency collapse, soaring inflation and worsening living conditions sparked protests across Iran.

The forces of the Iranian regime answered with a sweeping crackdown that included internet shutdowns, mass arrests and the widespread use of lethal force.

The hangings, which reportedly took place at 3:40 a.m. local time and coincided with the morning call to prayer, proceeded despite last-minute appeals from United Nations experts, international human rights organizations and the State Department.

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"Javid Shah!" Iranians calling for return of Pahlavis, their king

Reza Pahlavi

In the streets of Iran, a phrase once banished to the whispers of exile and treason, has roared back into the open: “Javid Shah” – Long Live the Shah.

What was for decades politically radioactive is now echoing through Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Ahvaz, Hamadan, and even the clerical stronghold of Qom. Videos smuggled out of the country show crowds chanting it without fear, alongside calls for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic and open support for the exiled Pahlavi dynasty. For a regime whose entire legitimacy rests on the destruction of that dynasty and the systematic erasure of its memory, this is an existential threat. It signals that public fury has transcended complaints about prices or policy and become a wholesale rejection of the theocratic order itself.

The unrest began when Tehran’s bazaari merchants, that ancient and formidable class, shuttered their shops in response to the catastrophic collapse of the rial, which at one point traded at over 1.4 million to the dollar on the open market against an official rate of 42,000. 

Economic despair, long simmering, exploded into outright defiance. But the slogans quickly outgrew mere grievances over bread and butter. Crowds chanted, "This is the final battle! Pahlavi will return," and "The shah will return to the homeland, and Zahhak (despot) will be overthrown," drawing on the ancient Persian myth of the tyrannical Zahhak to cast the current Supreme Leader as the monster of the age. Other voices rang out with "No to Gaza, no to Lebanon, I give my life for Iran," a blunt repudiation of the regime’s lavish funding of foreign proxies while its own people starve.

The security forces have so far responded with restraint: tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets. Reports speak of at least one death, a Basij militiaman killed in clashes, but the regime seems cautious, offering vague promises of "dialogue" rather than the full brutality it has deployed in the past. 

It knows that excessive force could tip the balance, turning manageable discontent into uncontrollable revolution. Yet the chants already suggest that a deeper shift is underway.To Western ears, "Javid Shah" might sound like a naive plea for literal monarchy restored. In Iran, its resonance is far more profound.

The Islamic Republic has spent forty-six years demonising the Pahlavi era as a time of corruption, foreign subservience, and moral decay. To invoke the Shah now is a deliberate assault on the regime's founding myth. More than that, it expresses a yearning for an Iran rooted in its own pre-Islamic, imperial history, an Iran ruled by kings and emperors for millennia, not by clerics obsessed with a pan-Islamic ummah and the export of revolution. 

The Islamic Republic, should it limp to its fiftieth anniversary in 2029, will still represent less than two per cent of Iran's recorded history. The return of monarchist symbols is a reminder that the clerics are the historical interlopers.

Political change often begins with the breaking of taboos. The Woman, Life, Freedom uprising of 2022 shattered the enforced consensus around compulsory hijab. Now, protesters are reaching for symbols the regime has spent decades trying to bury. When people abandon the language dictated by the state and embrace the forbidden, authority begins to crumble. "Javid Shah" is precisely such a forbidden symbol.

Iran's bazaaris have always been more than traders. For centuries they have been a political force, their strikes capable of paralyzing the economy and shifting the course of history: toppling the Tobacco Concession in the 1890s, driving the Constitutional Revolution, supporting Mossadegh’s oil nationalization, and, most fatefully, helping bring down the monarchy itself in 1978–79 through prolonged closures that starved the Shah’s government of revenue.

Even under the Islamic Republic, born of an alliance between clerics and bazaaris, the merchants have periodically flexed their muscle during economic crises. The question this week was whether their strike was merely about money or something more fundamental. The fact that Pahlavi's name now passes their lips provides the answer.

What makes the present moment especially dangerous for the regime is that the bazaaris are not acting alone. Students, that other historic engine of Iranian upheaval, have joined them. University campuses, once hotbeds of Islamist and leftist fervor that helped destroy the monarchy in 1979, are now filled with young people chanting in support of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. For a generation born long after the revolution, the Pahlavi era is not lived memory but a symbol of an Iran free from clerical control, ideological compulsion, and the squandering of national wealth on foreign adventures.

When bazaaris and students align, Iranian governments have rarely survived. In 1979 they combined to fell the Shah. Today they converge against the very system they once helped install.

Against this backdrop, Reza Pahlavi has positioned himself as the natural focal point for a fragmented opposition. In recent months he has grown bolder: calling openly for regime change, convening broad coalitions of dissidents, and outlining principles for a future Iran, territorial integrity, equality, individual liberties, separation of religion and state. He has stressed that any return of monarchy must be decided by referendum and that he seeks no personal power unless freely chosen by the people.
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As protests escalated, he issued a direct appeal: "Today is a time for greater solidarity. I call on all segments of society to join your fellow citizens in the streets and raise your voices demanding the downfall of this system."

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One exiled opposition figure told reporters this week: "It is crystal clear that the population accepts the leadership of Prince Reza Pahlavi… Now it is up to the prince to expand his circle and show that his professional cadres can take over the government. In that case, the military could join the people."

Whether these protests will gather the momentum to topple the regime remains uncertain, but it's looking as if it will. Several police stations have been overrun and burned and clerics are removing their clerical garb and running for the hills.

Repression could yet intensify. But something irrevocable has already happened. On the streets of the Islamic Republic, the people are once again calling for their king. And in a land with such a long memory, that call carries a weight no theocracy can easily dismiss.

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Trump’s Iran Strike Claims Under Fire: Leaked Report Questions “Total Obliteration” of Nuclear Sites

The Trump administration is scrambling to spin a leaked Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report that pours cold water on President Donald Trump’s bold claim that U.S. airstrikes “completely and totally obliterated” three Iranian nuclear facilities, like never before in the history of airstrikes. The report, splashed across CNN and The New York Times, suggests the strikes, part of Operation Midnight Hammer, only set Iran’s nuclear program back by a few months, not the knockout blow Trump touted.

In a national address right after the strikes, Trump didn’t hold back, [does he ever?] declaring the sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan “completely and totally obliterated.” He doubled down Saturday, calling the operation “very successful” and insisting Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities were toast. But the DIA’s assessment, based on a U.S. Central Command battle damage report, says otherwise, claiming Iran’s stash of enriched uranium survived the onslaught, according to seven sources briefed on the findings.

The administration is now in full damage-control mode, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissing the DIA report as “low confidence.” That’s Pentagon-speak for “we don’t have enough data to be sure,” a point echoed by experts. 

“Low confidence means the analyst is not sure of the accuracy of their assessment,” said retired Navy Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, now a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “This is frequent with a Quick Look 24-hour assessment like this one.”

Montgomery’s colleague, piled on, noting that “low confidence assessments are usually issued when key facts have yet to be verified, which certainly applies in this case.” Translation: the DIA report might be more of a rough draft than a definitive verdict.

But the skepticism isn’t just coming from the leaked report. Experts are cautioning against snap judgments, both optimistic or pessimistic. 

Dan Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and now with the Atlantic Council, told Fox News Digital that early assessments, like the DIA’s, likely rely on satellite imagery alone. “That’s one piece of the puzzle of how you would really make this assessment,” Shapiro said. “You’d really want to have to test all the other streams of intelligence, from signals intelligence, human intelligence, other forms of monitoring the site, potentially visits by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, potentially visits by other people. So that’s going to take days to weeks to get a real assessment.”

Still, Shapiro’s not entirely bearish. “But I think it’s likely that if the munitions performed as expected, that significant damage was done, and would set back the program significantly,” he added.

Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tried to thread the needle Sunday, saying initial battle damage assessments showed “all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction” but admitted a final verdict would “take some time.” That’s a far cry from Trump’s chest-thumping.

The strikes, which followed escalating Israel-Iran tensions, dropped serious firepower, over 14 30,000-lb. bombs, according to Rob Greenway, a former Trump National Security Council deputy assistant now at The Heritage Foundation. 

Greenway says the sheer volume of ordnance means the facilities are likely “no longer serviceable.” “We were putting twice the amount of ordnance required to achieve the desired effect, just to make sure that we didn’t have to go back,” he told Fox News Digital. “There’s virtually no mathematical probability in which either facility can be used again by Iran for the intended purpose, if at all, which again means that everything now is within Israel’s capability to strike if that’s required.”

But assessing the damage isn’t straightforward. Greenway noted the strikes targeted underground facilities, which complicates things. “Each of these are one piece of a much larger puzzle, and you’re trying to gauge the ultimate effect of the entirety of the puzzle, not just one particular strike,” he said. Add in Israel’s prior strikes on the same sites, and it’s a messy intelligence jigsaw puzzle that could take “one or two months” to piece together with higher confidence.

Michael Allen, a former National Security Council senior director under George W. Bush, said the intelligence picture will get “richer” soon. “Stuff is pouring in, and we’re out there collecting it, and they’re trying to hustle it to the White House as soon as possible,” he said.

Meanwhile, the White House is as angry as a bag of cats about the leak. 

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the leaker “irresponsible” and vowed the FBI would hunt them down. “That person was irresponsible with it,” Leavitt told reporters Thursday. “And we need to get to the bottom of it. And we need to strengthen that process to protect our national security and protect the American public.”

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, weighing in on Fox News’ Special Report, outlined the broader impact of Operation Midnight Hammer on the Middle East, but the real question is whether Trump’s victory lap was premature. For now, the administration’s battling a narrative that its big win might not be as big as advertised, and it’s got a leaked report to thank for the headache.

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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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Iran executes 3 men supporting Amini protests: Democrat feminists silent

Amini protest

Iran executed three men on Friday who they convicted of violence against Islamic Republic's security forces at the Mahsa Amini protests. Amini died in custody last year after being arrested for not wearing Islamic head covering.

The men, Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi who were convicted of "moharebeh" or "war against Allah" were the feminists that women like AOC and her so called squad pretend to be. They are accused of drawing a gun during a protest in Isfahan, a central Iranian city, leading to the death of three security force members, according to the judiciary's Mizan Online news website.

Isfahan is known for its Nuclear Technology Facility where it's probable that here is where they are developing 'weapons of infidel destruction'. 

Iran experienced waves of protests following the September 16 death of 22-year-old Amini, an Iranian Kurd who had been arrested for not wearing a hijab.

During the protests, which Tehran generally falsely labeled as foreign-instigated "riots", thousands of Iranians were arrested and hundreds killed including dozens of security forces and many brave women fed up with their oppressed role in society.

Kazemi, Mirhashemi and Yaghoubi were arrested in November and sentenced to death in January.

They were also charged with membership of "illegal groups with the intention of disrupting national security and collusion leading to crimes against internal security," Mizan reported.

It noted "evidence and documents in the case and the clear statements made by the accused" show that "the shootings carried out by these three people led to the martyrdom of three security forces."

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Medics say: female Iranian protesters shot in face, genitals and breasts

Medical personnel in Iran treating protesters were disturbed to see the different types of injuries that were inflicted upon women than were inflicted on men. Female protesters were often shot in their faces, breasts and genitals as if these areas were targeted.

Doctors and nurses covertly treated the wounded demonstrators stemming from the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22. She was taken in custody for not wearing a head covering [hijab] properly and thereby causing Iranian men to have lustful thoughts and dreams, and then allowing them to beat their wives for no apparent reason other than they could with impunity.

One doctor from the Isfahan province, home of nuclear weapons research, speaking to the Guardian on condition of anonymity to avoid sudden death syndrome said he believed the authorities “wanted to destroy the beauty of these women.”

And apparently their reproductive capacity.

So far, over 475 people have been killed in the unrest and more than 18,000 have been detained by government forces as part of a brutal crackdown on the popular movement, which was spearheaded by women and girls fed up with the ayatollahs’ draconian rule.

Iranian authorities reportedly have been firing on demonstrators at close range with birdshot pellets made of metal or plastic. Doctors said shots to the eyes were particularly common because Iranians who shoot at unarmed Iranian women cannot suck enough.

The doctor from Isfahan told about his experience treating a young woman who was struck in her crotch area with a dozen pellets, two of which had lodged inside her genitals. 

This seems almost as bad as the US Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd, who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed woman, during the January 6th demonstration in our own country.

“Two pellets were a challenge, because they were wedged in between her urethra and vaginal opening,” he said, adding that the state of the patient left him anguished because she “could have been my daughter.”

Ashli Babbitt's wound was in her neck.

Another doctor from the city of Karaj suggested that the so-called security forces “shoot at the faces and private body parts of women because they have an inferiority complex and they want to get rid of their sexual complexes by hurting these young people.”

This sounds more accurate.

Mohsen Shekari

On Thursday, Iran carried out the first execution stemming from the protests by hanging Mohsen Shekari and was seeking the death penalty against 21 others.

The title "Religion of Peace" is an oxymoron.

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