Iran

Why Iranians chant death to America and Israel

Operation Ajax (1953) - In 1953 the CIA and MI6 overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Installing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. His secret police, the SAVAK were known for murdering and torturing people.

The Federation of American Scientists' list of SAVAK torture methods includes: "electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the testicles, and the extraction of teeth and nails". The SAVAK received training and support Mossad, alongside the CIA.

Nojeh Coup Plot (1980) - ''In July 1980 a cadre of high ranking air force officers had hatched a plan to decapitate the entire Revolutionary government by bombing key government and military sites in Tehran, starting with Khamenei's home. The commander of Iranian air force, major General Said Madijun was to spearhead the effort inside Iran. The son of a wealthy Tabriz merchant and reputedly one of the air force's best pilots, he quietly assembled several dozen f4 aircraft at a large fighter base in Nojeh near Tehran. Under the cover of darkness three aircraft would bomb Khamenei's house, hitting every building in the compound with a massive ordinance of 750 pound bombs, cluster bombs and precision guided weapons. In quick succession other jets would strike the prime ministers and the president's residences, army barracks and the headquarters of the revolutionary guard. With Khamenei dead, Shapour Bakhtiar would enter the country from Iraq at the head of a force of exiles. He would join forces with disaffected elements within the army to overthrow the Islamic republic. The Nojeh coup, as it became known involved much of the expatriate community. Ahmed Madani in Germany provided funding, yet neither Bakhtiar or any other coup leaders disclosed the plans details to the CIA, perhaps to avoid revealing Saddam Hussein's complicity. During a meeting with Cave [George Cave] in Paris, Bakhtiar asked to be provided helicopters to move his operatives inside of and around Iran. When Cave pressed for specifics, when where, why how many men, Bakhitar remained evasive. Shortly before the attack was to begin, someone inside the expatriate community tipped off the Iranian embassy in Paris. The Iranian government moved quickly, rounding up hundreds of people. General Mehdiyoun, the air force commander was forced to confess before a video taped kangaroo court and his executers gouged out one eye before riddling his body with bullets.'' - The Twilight War by David Crist

Iran–Iraq War (1980) - The Carter Administration with Zbigniew Brzezinski encouraged Saddam Hussein to attack Iran. Ronald Ragan and Donald Rumsfeld continued to fund Saddam, providing him with the precursors used to make chemical weapons which were used on Iranian soldiers and civilians. Intelligence was hand carried to the government of Iraq by Walter Patrick Lang. The war killed between 300,000 to 500,000 or more Iranians.

Iran Air Flight 655 (1988) - During the Iran-Iraq war, the USS Vincennes, a U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, resulting in the deaths of all 290 passengers and crew on board, 66 of whom were children. Despite receiving warnings and the identification of the flight as a commercial airliner, the Vincennes crew regarded it as a potential military threat and launched missiles against it. The crew of the USS Vincennes was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon for their engagement with Iranian gunboats that day. Captain William C. Rogers III was awarded the Legion of Merit for his overall performance as commanding officer from April 1987 to May 1989. Although the United States never officially acknowledged wrongdoing, it agreed to pay Iran millions of dollars in compensation.

Economic warfare - In 2010 Obama signed the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, accountability and Divestment Act (CISADA), which applied secondary sanctions to Iran, which punish non US persons or companies who do business with Iran. These were then expanded to Iran's central bank and oil industry. US sanctions cost Iran 160B dollars in oil revenues since 2012. Iran's GDP shrank by 9% in the two years ending in march 2014. Sanctions on Tehran tripled from 370 under Obama to over 1,500 under Trump, making Iran the most sanctioned nation in the world.

In 2018 the US banned Iran from purchasing US dollars and prohibited third parties from selling dollars to Iran. Sanctions also restricted third parties from engaging in transactions using Iran's currency, the rial. Iran's central bank was designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

Scott Bessent, US Secretary of the Treasury, admitted that America crashed the Iranian economy.

It isn't out of the realm of possibility that before the protests, someone was buying up rials on the market and then dumped a bunch of them real cheap to crash the currency by 40%. Read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man for further insight on how this works.

Terrorist proxies - The Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) is an Islamo-Marxist militia which lost in a power grab to the Islamic Republic when the Shah was overthrown. The CIA started funding them when they moved into Baghdad in 2003. MEK was formed in 1965 and killed some American soldiers in the 70s, causing them to be listed as terrorists by the state department, a designation later removed by Hillary Clinton and Obama. MEK was sent to be headquartered in Albania, from where they would be used for assassinations and terrorism. MEK assassin Majid Jamali Fashi admitted to being trained and financed by the Mossad. While Maryam Rajavi, the leader of MEK, and Zahra Marykhi, the second-in-command of the group, have red notices and are under judicial pursuit by Interpol, Paris has granted them new identities to live freely, issuing a passport in the name of Farzaneh Darbahani for Maryam Rajavi and a passport in the name of Parvin Hamadani for Zahra Marykhi. In 1985 a MEK suicide bomber killed at least six people in an attempt to get Ali Khamenei during his Friday prayers speech.

On April third, two days after Israel hit the consulate in Damascus, Baloch terrorists attacked police and military bases in Iran, killing 11 security members.

Stuxnet (2007) - The Stuxnet virus, joint crafted by the US and Israel, blew apart around 1000 Iranian centrifuges. It almost caused another Chernobyl when it leaked to the rest of the world from an engineer's laptop.

Soleimani Assassination (2020) - Legendary general and Iranian folk hero, Qasem Soleimani, most known for fighting ISIS, was killed by an airstrike on Trump's order after John Bolton whispered in his ear. An Iranian cleric, Shahab Moradi, said Iran would struggle to hit back against the US by striking a parallel figure because the US has only "fictional" heroes: "Think about it. Are we supposed to take out Spiderman and SpongeBob?"

Natanz bombing (2021) - In 2021 Israel hit the Natanz Nuclear Facility in Iran.

Assassination of Nuclear scientists - 2007: Ardeshir Hosseinpour. 2010: Fereydoon Abbasi, Majid Shahriari, Masoud Ali-Mohammadi. 2011: Darioush Rezaeinejad 2012: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan. 2020: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. 2025: Mohammad Reza Sedighi Saber, Isar Tabatabai-Qamsheh, Abdolhamid Minouchehr, Ali Bakhouei Katirimi, Ahmadreza Zolfaghari Daryani, Mansour Asgari, Saeed Borji, Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, Akbar Motalebizadeh, Seyyed Amir Hossein Feghhi and Fereydoon Abbasi. 2026: Hossein Zaki Dizaji assassinated by Israel.

Most of these were openly targeted by Israel through airstrikes. Some were killed by MEK, an assassin of which admitted to being trained and financed by the Mossad. This has been corroborated by US intelligence officials interviewed by NBC and Time Magazine, and an ex Mossad Chief. At the time Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya'alon said: "We will act in any way and are not willing to tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran. We prefer that this be done by means of sanctions, but in the end, Israel should be able to defend itself."

Hillary Clinton email released by State Department: “The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad. Negotiations to limit Iran’s nuclear program will not solve Israel’s security dilemma. Nor will they stop Iran from improving the crucial part of any nuclear weapons program — the capability.”

Soleimani funeral procession bombings (2025) -Somebody bombed General Soleimani's funeral procession, killing 103 people.

12 day war

Consulate Airstrike (2025) - On April 1st, Israel bombed the Iranian consolette in Syria, killing eight of Iran's highest ranking Generals and eight civilians and 8 civilians. Shortly after on April 3rd Baloch terrorists, attacked police and military bases in Iran, killing 11 security members. After the strike, Iran asked the UN Security Council to condemn the attack on its territory, which was refused. Even though to retaliate is legal under article 51 of the UN charter, Iran gave Israel and its allies two weeks notice, in alignment with Ramadan an Eid: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in official statement and CNN interview. Turkey's Foreign Ministry said it had been informed, and had informed Washington before the attack. An Iraqi government security adviser and a security official said Iran had used diplomatic channels to inform Baghdad of the attack at least three days before it happened. A senior Jordanian official said Iranian envoys informed them, though did not specify the timing. They did not target civilians; Iran hit Israeli military and intelligence targets, including the Nevatim Airbase, which, according to Iranian Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri, helped launch the initial attack on April First. As Israel said, 99% of the 300 drones which flew were intercepted. The only human damage was a Bedouin girl who got winged by the debris. So Israel, made an illegal declaration of war by killing 8 generals on Iranian Soil, and Iran responded legally by damaging a few bases. Meanwhile in Gaza, residents reported that night being the first in which they could sleep without the sound of Israeli drones buzzing over their heads.

In June, the Mossad had hundreds of agents involved in Israel’s 12-day war, which set back Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missiles program, air defense systems, and killed dozens of its top military and intelligence officials. Following the war, Mossad Director David Barnea released a rare statement foreshadowing the spy agency’s activities in Tehran, telling the general public that Israel “will [continue to] be there, like we have been there.”

Iran War (2026)

Lebanese perspective

Battle for national resistance

The protests started off peaceful when merchants took to the streets to demonstrate against rising inflation rates triggered by Western sanctions. Iran’s government responded sympathetically to the bazaar protests, providing them with police protection. I was only on the third day when the Western and Israeli backed terror cells were activated. Reminder that the US did this in Syria and tried doing it in Cuba among other countries. Much of what ensued resembles the failed bay of pigs invasion, when there was no Cuban people's uprising.

Western/Israeli backing - Former US SoS, Mike Pompeo said on X: ''Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them...''

During the riots, the Mossad said on its official Farsi account on X: “Go out together into the streets. The time has come... We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.”

An officer from Channel 14 said on X: ''We reported tonight on Channel 14 foreign actors are arming the protesters in Iran with live firearms, which is the reason for the hundreds of regime personnel killed. Everyone is free to guess who is behind it.''

Journalist Trey Yingst to Fox News: “President Trump told me the United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters... He told me, ‘We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them to the Kurds.’ And the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them. He went on to say. ‘We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them.’”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Al Jazeera on 13 January: “The internet was only cut after we confronted terrorist operations and realized that orders were coming from outside the country. We have recorded voices of individuals giving orders from abroad to terrorist agents, instructing them to fire at police forces and fire at demonstrators if police forces were not present. Their intention was to spread killing,”.

The insurgents used Elon Musk-produced Starlink terminals to communicate and coordinate with Western/Israeli intelligence and each other, until the government jammed them, ending the violence. Elon was so butt-hurt about this that he changed the Iranian flag on X to the Shah flag. When the insurrection started failing the Israelis tried sending them huge packages of Starlink upgrades, which were captured by the Iranians. According to a report, some of the equipment was also slated for intelligence-gathering operations near military and missile sites in preparation for a potential future conflict. Later in February, Iran caught a Dutch diplomat trying to smuggle Starlink units and satellite phones into the country.

Damon Wilson, the head of the US government's National Endowment for Democracy (NED), was interrupted by a member of Congress during a House oversight hearing on February 24 after revealing that his agency “began supporting the deployment [and] operation of about 200 Starlinks early on”. Before he could finish the sentence, he was cut off by the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, Rep. Lois Frankel, who told Wilson: “You know what, I’m going to interrupt you – we’d better not talk about it.” He also said: “What we’re seeing today, the Endowment has been making investments over years that have ensured that there have been secure communications, including Starlinks… that allowed information to go both in and out of the country,”

In early January, Iranian security forces arrested a "Mossad agent" operating among protesters in Tehran, who reportedly confessed to being recruited via social media and assigned to interact with riot leaders. On February 28, Iran reported arresting hundreds of people, including 97 individuals linked to Israeli espionage networks, for allegedly sharing intelligence and creating instability.

The Iranian government announced the seizure of 60,000 smuggled weapons

and 200kg or explosives. Another Cache of weapons seized in Tabriz province. Many of these arms aware US built.

When Iranian police arrested the main perpetrators of riots in Abadan city,

Khuzestan province. The rioters said: "I was tricked and fooled, I'm deeply sorry."

The judiciary will show no leniency says the report, as they had been warned since

3 days ago. Another said: ''they trained me from start to finish, telling me what to do and what not to do.''

Damage - Much of the damage to property and human life done by the rioters was caught on video (GORE WARNING) either by security cameras or the rioters themselves. During the failed insurrection, rioters: fired automatic weapons at police, tried breaking into a Basij armory, burned police and civilians alive, stabbed police and civilians to death, beheaded police, beat unarmed guards to death, performed throat-slashing, mutilation, grenade attacks, set a public bus aflame, burned the historic Abazar Mosque, burned copies of the Quran inside the Grand Mosque of Sarableh and the Muhammad ibn Musa al-Kadhim shrine, set fire to a large municipal building in Karaj, while burning the marketplace to the ground in central Rasht, torched a historic library filled with ancient texts, burned the marketplace in the Iranian city of Rasht to a crisp, torched fire stations, burning fire fighters alive, while setting buses alight, attacking city workers, vandalizing Metro stations and causing over $18 million in damage, according to local municipal authorities. Civilians have testified to having been attacked by the protesters:

During the failed insurrection, rioters shot and killed 3 year-old Melina Asadi.

This is currently being reported as a killing by the regime although her father said she was killed by the insurgents. Other martyrs include a 70-year-old man, a ride-hailing driver, a student with family, a nurse who was burned, and workers and pedestrians killed by concrete blocks thrown from rooftops. According to the Iranian government, over 100 police and security officers were killed during the unrest. There is footage of protesters being shot by men in car, and others randomly being shot. Footage also emerged from Shushtar of a young woman wielding a sword: ''I was among the rioters when a guy on a moto cycle handed me a sword.'' she would go on to talk about how the insurgents stopped a young boy who's face wasn't covered and threw him in a fire.

The Iranian foreign ministry invited ambassadors from Britain, France, Germany, and Italy to view footage of the violence carried out by rioters first hand, including a picture of a guard with his face caved in.

Overall they set fire to 305 ambulances and buses, 24 gas stations, 700 shops, 300 homes, 750 banks, 414 government buildings, 749 police vehicles, 120 Basij bases, 200 schools, 350 mosques and 1000s of copies of the Qur'an, Dozens of libraries, 89 Islamic seminaries, 253 bus stations, 600 ATMs and 800 vehicles.

Khamenei bombing - The US killed Ali Khamenei while he was having dinner at his home with his family. Along with Khamenei, the US, with foreknowledge, killed his daughter, daughter-in-law grandchild, son-in-law and Zahra Haddad-Adel wife of the current Ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Sinking of the IRIS Dena - Pete Hegseth is up on stage bragging about how they sunk the IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka, which is a war crime: ''An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that though it was safe in international waters. Instead it was sunk by a torpedo, Quiet death.'' The ship was unarmed, in international waters and was 200km from Iranian shores, returning to Iran from a naval show hosted by the Indian government. The worst part is that aside from sinking an unarmed ship in international waters, America didn't offer rescue, which in itself is a war crime. Luckily the survivors were rescued by the Sri Lankan navy.

Trump: "They’re totally defeated. You know, we killed their Navy, in, would you say three days, Pete? Gone. In fact, I was a little upset with Pete, I said: ‘Why didn’t you save the ships? We could have used them!’ He said ‘It’s more fun shooting them down!'"

Air striking civilian areas

School bombings - Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School bombing: On 28 February 2026, a primary school for girls was struck by multiple missiles, before and after the arrival of ambulances, killing between 150 and 175 people, most of whom were children. Independent investigations by Amnesty International and BBC Verify suggest the use of a U.S.-manufactured Tomahawk cruise missile in this attack. Although this was claimed to be a mistake, an Al Jazeera investigation and analysis by other outlets found that the school had been separate from an adjacent military site for at least 10 years, featuring visible murals and small sports fields. An expert told The Times that given the intelligence capabilities of the US, it was unlikely they were unaware of the location's nature. US media reported that US military investigators believed American forces were likely responsible, perhaps unintentionally.

In an interview one of the Iranian tribesmen who downed a US helicopter with his Mauser said: ''my kids came out all excited, cheering, 'Dad, shoot him! Come on, shoot!'''

When asked to confirm this, his daughter said: ''Yeah... For little martyr girls of Minab, for our dear leader... ...Because they're child killers.''

Parand schools: On 5 March 2026, Iranian media reported that missiles hit two schools in the town of Parand, southwest of Tehran.

Imam Reza Elementary School: A schoolboy was killed on 28 February 2026 after a nearby strike shattered windows and sent debris into the playground.

As of 7 March 2026, the head of the Information and Public Relations Centre at Iran’s Ministry of Education announced that at least 66 schools across Iran have been damaged or destroyed since the conflict began. Iran’s Ministry of Science reported on 31 March 2026 that at least 21 universities have been damaged in strikes.

Bombing of a playground in Tehran: https://x.com/iraninarabic_ir/status/2028436068186439807

Bombing of a fish market in Infahan: https://x.com/RT_com/status/2036650972101927269

Bombing of Gandhi Hospital in Tehran: https://x.com/IrnaEnglish/status/2028181418774327619

Damage to Tehran’s University of Science and Technology.

A goldfish survived the American and Israeli bombing, but its owner, a 99-year-old Iranian grandmother, was martyred in this airstrike in west of Tehran.

B1 Bridge bombing - A US strike on Iran's B1 bridge, a recently-constructed overpass that connected the city of Karaj to Tehran caused at least 8 deaths and nearly 100 injuries.

Kamal Kharrazi assassination attempt - Kamal Kharrazi, the 81-year-old head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and former foreign minister, was seriously wounded in a strike on his home in Tehran. His wife was killed in the attack. Kharrazi was actively involved in Pakistani efforts to arrange a potential meeting between senior Iranian officials and US Vice President JD Vance, making him one of the most active backchannel diplomats in the war. Some analysts have accused Israel of trying to sabotage US-Iran talks.

Netanyahu says Israel targeted the “family members of the Basij members” during the war. - https://x.com/clashreport/status/2041931096313508328

False accusations against Iran

1983 Beirut barracks bombings - Carried out by a group called Amal, organized in 1972, seven years before the Ayatollah. The only reason they did that is because the US had warships off the coast firing shells into Lebanon for Israel.

''Developing Nukes'' - Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa against developing Nukes on religious grounds. Iran's nuclear program was developed to focus on power generation. Iran signed the JCPOA, allowed inspectors in, abided by IAEA guidelines in exchange for the US lifting sanctions, which they never did.

Leading up to the 2026 war, Iranian negotiators told Steve Witkoff that Iran had 460kg of Uranium Hexafluoride enriched at 60%, and that this could be verified by American inspectors.

''Oppression''

''Islamic fundamentalism'' - Actual footage of a park in Tehran shows Iranian women, loosely wearing head scarfs and some not wearing head scarfs at all and wearing jeans. Islamic traditional head ware in Iran goes back before the Pahlavi family took control in 1921 and was nothing new when the Islamic Republic restored things to how they had been. Tommy Robinson campaigned for insurrection on the grounds that Persian women are too beautiful to wear head scarfs. Right wing X user, Specter posted about how the regime needs to be toppled so Iranian women can be put on OnlyFans.

Many of the countries hosting US bases also have mandatory hijab laws. Forced marriage, however, is illegal in Iran unlike in Jordan and Iraq, (since Saddam left) both of which America is firing missiles from. The one guy who threw acid in his wife's face in Iran was sentenced to have his eye cut out, however the doctors refused to do so, and he was executed instead.

Ali Khamenei on women: ''Islam wants women to grow intellectually and scientifically and socially and politically and above all in terms of virtue and spirituality to reach the highest level so that their presence as a member of society and family reaches the maximum level of benefit and impact.''

''Another issue is social jobs and management positions. Some ladies have asked me about this. Here too, gender is not the main issue. In different kinds of management, various social and government jobs, there's no limitation on women's participation at all. You just have to look at who's qualified. There's no preference given here to anyone. It is all about meritocracy.''

“In Islam, women have equal rights with men in social activity, business, political engagement, in most governmental posts, and in a variety of other fields. And in spiritual journeying, the path is completely open for them along with the effort necessary for personal and collective advancement.”

Intelligence role in misinfo - There's a group out of the Netherlands called GANAAM, set up by a dissident Iranian professor who conducts polling over the internet. They are funded by the US government's National endowment for Democracy and USAID. They claim from the results of their polling that 80% of Iranians are against their government. The University of Maryland had an institute for international studies which had also conducted polls in 2024, the old fashioned way, via telephone. Their results showed the exact opposite.

One of Mossad’s main methods to promote Reza Pahlavi was the use of fake and fabricated Farsi social media accounts. Investigations by Haaretz and Citizen Lab show that these accounts operated in a coordinated and premeditated manner, deliberately posting messages with hashtags such as #Shah_Reza_Pahlavi. These operations intensified after the 12-day war and Israeli and U.S. airstrikes against Iran.

''Killing Protesters'' - What people are calling shooting protestors on mass is Iran killing armed insurgents who were shooting at police and trying to get into an armory.

The official death toll given by the Iranian government is 3,117, with a third of which being classified as Martyrs, either Police and Basij members or civilians killed by insurgents.

In the West the alleged number of ''protesters'' killed has now risen to 45,000 according to Trump. Previously, in Michigan, Trump said that no one can give him an accurate number, and it could be one or the thousands. The earlier claim of 30,000 originates from a single anonymous source, who admitted extrapolating the figure by assuming without evidence that “officially registered deaths (3117) related to the crackdown likely represent less than 10% of the real number of fatalities.” The article in question is by Deepa Parent, who's work at the Guardian is funded by an NGO called Humanity United, which was founded by tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar has partnered with US intelligence cutouts like USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy to promote regime change from Ukraine to the Philippines. Parent also claimed the Guardian had obtained photographs showing “bodies with close-range gunshot wounds to the head that had been transferred from hospital morgues while still attached to catheters, nasogastric tubes or endotracheal tubes.” Though Parent freely acknowledged The Guardian had “not independently verified the photographs,” she nevertheless claimed they had been “verified by [an] Iranian factchecking organisation” known as “Factnameh.” However Factnameh isn't Iranian, but a subsidiary of “ASL19, a private company registered in Toronto, Canada.” Public records show that between 2022 and 2023 alone, ASL19 received nearly $2.9 million from the US State Department. TIME, who also span the 30,000 number, claimed to have received it from “two senior officials of [Iran’s] Ministry of Health.” Though TIME admitted it could not verify the figure, they claimed it “roughly aligns” with a count prepared by a German eye surgeon named Amir Parasta. Parasta is a close associate of and lobbyist for Reza Pahlavi, and openly serves as an advisor to NUFDI, the main US-based lobbying group working re-establishing a monarchy in Iran.

In assessing the death toll in Iran, outlets throughout the West have depended on two NGOs based in Washington and funded by the US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (responsible for the Iraq war): the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Activists in Iran. A 2024 press release by the NED explicitly described the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran as “a partner of the National Endowment for Democracy. Abdorrahman Boroumand Center prominently in their coverage of Iranian protests. Seated on the Center’s board of directors is Francis Fukuyama, the ideologue who signed the Project for a New American Century’s (PNAC) founding letter – PNAC, being the think tank which led to the Iraq War by lying about anthrax and WOMD. A 2021 statement from Human Rights Activists in Iran states that the group “expanded its network and decided to start receiving financial aid from the National Endowment for Democracy. Figures from Human Rights Activists in Iran have circulated even more widely, with the NGO’s recent estimated death toll of 544 people cited by dozens of US and Israeli mainstream outlets across the political spectrum, as well as by Dropsite. The “shadow CIA” intelligence firm Stratfor has also cited the NGO in an article entitled, “Protests in Iran Provide a Window for U.S. and/or Israeli Intervention.” The NED was created under the watch of the Reagan administration’s CIA director, William Casey, to enable the government to continue meddling abroad despite widespread distrust in US intelligence services. One of its founders, Allen Weinstein, famously admitted, “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” Despite its mission of promoting transparency and “fundamental freedoms” abroad, the NED is now a dark money group which conceals the names of its local partners under a “duty of care” policy announced in 2025. During his congressional testimony this February, Wilson insisted the policy was necessary for the security of grantees on the ground.

Woman reacting to a news report of her own death during the protests: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yLlwXR0FkNQ

''Religious Persecution'' - A delegation of Orthodox Christian priests visited the Jamkaran Mosque in Qom in Iran to celebrate the birthday Imam Mahdi. The head of the holy Jamkaran Mosque stated: ''The promised savior is not limited to a specific country or ideology.''

Ali Khamenei visiting Christian homes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r63rEf3Wieg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlWITF7BLKE

In contrast, Pope Leo was blocked from entering the temple mount in Israel recently. This is on top of a long list of factors which make Jerusalem unsafe for Christians under the Zionist regime.

Loyalty - For every astroturfed anti government rally, there is a pro government rally in the thousands: https://rumble.com/v785bik-iranian-loyalty-compilation.html

Chants of "Death to Israel" by the people of llam Province during the funeral procession of martyred police officer "Aghajani," who was martyred by armed insurgents.

After the failed insurrection, millions of Iranian citizens poured into the streets to express their indignation at the riots, denouncing foreign elements. There were chants of "Death to Israel" by the people of llam Province during the funeral procession of martyred police officer "Aghajani," who was killed by the insurgents.

Guy on a train in Iran trying to get people to chant ''down with the dictator,'' and getting unanimously ignored: https://x.com/timand2037/status/2011358750041690357

Iranian girl burning Israeli flag with cigarette: https://x.com/SaraMirGilgity/status/2038286924897505457

Iranians chanting ''revenge'' for Khamenei: https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/03/02/iran-revenge-khamenei-video/

The US and Israel's incredibly bad optics

Epstein's war - Epstein discussed Iran with former Prime Minister Israeli Ehud Barak. Epstein replied in an exchange with Steve Bannon: ''they are very very bad guys''.

Epstein's personal bank account was allegedly called ''Baal''. The Iranians have incorporated this motif into their propaganda when depicting the West, going so far as burning an effigy of the Canaanite deity with pictures of Trump and an Israeli flag.

Epic Fury - Operation Epic Fury has been called everything from Epstein Fury to Aipac Fury to Epic Jewry, to Epic Furry to Epic Bacon.

Religious Zealotry - Paula White, Trump's faith advisor speaking in tongues and ranting about invading Iran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHsBIk1ZLr4

Pastor John Hagee of Christians United for Israel giving a sermon about Epic Fury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6hX5UFTBv4

US military commanders preaching to their unit that Epic Fury is part of the Biblical end times prophesy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric

Hegseth Sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjRyQCNU-Ns

Fictional heroes - A video posted by the White House on X shows a montage of scenes from various Hollywood movies, spliced with footage of US strikes on Iran with dubstep playing in the back.

On April 5th Trump threatened: ''Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP''

On the 7th, Trump threatened: ''A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.'' This was followed by a two week ceasefire.

Pahlavists - In 1921, Reza Kahn, a colonel with no royal claim, took power in Iran from the Qajar dynasty by military coup. By 1941, Briton and the Soviets forced him out installing his son as the new Shah. By 1953 Iran is governed by an elected parliament and prime minister, Mohamad Mosaddegh how he came into power. The CIA and MI6 overthrow the elected government and restore the Shah (Mohammad Pahlavi) to near unchecked power. Opposition is tortured jailed and killed by SAVAK until 1979.

Reza Pahlavi, son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, is who the US wants to install as Shah. He has branded government workers and state media outlets as “legitimate targets.” Pahlavi's wife, who was 17 when she married him at the age of 25, is probably banging her yoga instructor, Tom Morley.

Reza Pahlavi’s wife and daughter grinding on some random guy at a party: https://x.com/SameeraKhan/status/1811887920737059190

Pahlavi got tricked by Russian comedy duo Vovan and Lexus into thinking he was talking to a German official by the name of Adolf, with a toothbrush moustache who told him that Germany was ready to bomb Iran.