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Iran will fall in the next 48 hours, I reckon
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Nothing will happen in Iran. The terrorist Ayatollah will just order his satanic army to shoot and kill all protesters until every one shut up. That's their version of Islam. Siaolang Islamic people.
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If that is the case i would target US bases in kuwait /saudi, qatar first . Get friendlies in iraq to attack US bases there. This can be done using cheaper shirt range missiles and drones. Unless qatar/ saudi forbid US from using its bases to attack third countries. Which could be the case as last bombing US had to use long-range bombers based in US for the job.
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Those were not protesters but violent Instigators. agents provocateurs. But suddenly no news on mass media about huge numbers coming out peacefully in support of the country. Iranians should be proud they stood up to two entities that killed the most people in middle east. The US and israel.
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The devil self proclaimed god on Earth Ayatollah with absolute power over life and death of Humans had declared that protestors would be sentence to death, just as he had instituted a horrific system of justice that ensures if a female did not a wear a hijab, the sentence is death or beatings/torture and NO mitigating circumstances allowed.
It is HORRIFYING that some, even here, are supporting those monsters....Are they even Human with a heart?
It is just one of the few of the MANY DEMENTED MEGALOMANICAL crimes that he had committed to Humankind with NO remorse, along with his self serving military commanders.
It was reported by the brutal Iranian authorities mouthpiece in the press that at least 100 security died in the protests, probably doing their usual - killing and harming innocent protesters and badly beaten up by an already starving and angry mob whom saw their loved ones slaughtered, summarily executed on spot....
It was ALSO reported by them those dead in body bags in the morgue ARE ALL terrorists......shown on National Television....
May those undervalued and underpaid security officers still alive realize FINALLY how they are being treated by the brutal and savage regime. No matter how loyal you are, you are but only another number to be sacrificed so that the evil regimes' elites get to live like gods on Earth, regardless if they win in Iran or lose but get to flee to another Nation, fooling and scamming others.......You are considered a terrorists if you fail....
A soldier's first duty is to the Nation. But WHO is the Nation? It's the People, at least the Majority, - your family, loved ones, relatives and friends, not the elites. Alone, one soldier cannot defend all, but COLLECTIVELY, one be assured each will do their duty to defend EACH OTHERS' loved ones.
Thus, is the evil Iranian Ayatollah regime worth defending?
It is HORRIFYING that some, even here, are supporting those monsters....Are they even Human with a heart?
It is just one of the few of the MANY DEMENTED MEGALOMANICAL crimes that he had committed to Humankind with NO remorse, along with his self serving military commanders.
It was reported by the brutal Iranian authorities mouthpiece in the press that at least 100 security died in the protests, probably doing their usual - killing and harming innocent protesters and badly beaten up by an already starving and angry mob whom saw their loved ones slaughtered, summarily executed on spot....
It was ALSO reported by them those dead in body bags in the morgue ARE ALL terrorists......shown on National Television....
May those undervalued and underpaid security officers still alive realize FINALLY how they are being treated by the brutal and savage regime. No matter how loyal you are, you are but only another number to be sacrificed so that the evil regimes' elites get to live like gods on Earth, regardless if they win in Iran or lose but get to flee to another Nation, fooling and scamming others.......You are considered a terrorists if you fail....
A soldier's first duty is to the Nation. But WHO is the Nation? It's the People, at least the Majority, - your family, loved ones, relatives and friends, not the elites. Alone, one soldier cannot defend all, but COLLECTIVELY, one be assured each will do their duty to defend EACH OTHERS' loved ones.
Thus, is the evil Iranian Ayatollah regime worth defending?
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Those are not protestors but violent instigators working for foreign powers. The shot at police stations and burn gomen buildings and kill policemen. Thanks to iranian technical skill, they shut down the internet, mobile service and jam the starlink network. And arrested those they deemed were the leaders who lead them to more arrest and deservedly tortured and executed.
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It was a brilliant security operation.
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Luckily TS never say he will chop off his own lan Jiao
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Iran’s swift crackdown on protests shows lessons learned from the summer war | CNN
us.cnn.com
Iran has deployed new techniques to swiftly and decisively crush nationwide protests, signaling a tactical shift by a regime that now views domestic dissent as an extension of the summer war with Israel.
What began as the regime’s age-old riot-control methods quickly escalated into advanced techniques to suppress protests, combining cutting-edge military technology with sophisticated psychological operations, according to experts.
Low-flying surveillance drones, signal jammers, a rapid-response propaganda apparatus, and the violent deployment of force were unleashed simultaneously by a regime keen to learn from each wave of unrest.
Iran’s latest playbook to crush dissent reflects lessons adopted after deep Israeli infiltration of the country shocked and embarrassed the regime due to the role in played in Israel’s success in the 12-day war in June. The increasingly paranoid government now frames the latest wave of domestic unrest as the “thirteenth day of war” with Israel, painting protesters as foreign agents that need to be “dealt with.”
Protesters were heavily surveilled with CCTV cameras on the streets, but even those who chose to protest from their homes by shouting anti-regime slogans from their windows were being watched. Iranian police distributed a video titled “Identifable Sounds” showing drones hovering outside apartment buildings to find people chanting against the regime.
Set to ominous background music, the footage showed a drone operator peering into residential windows to identify people chanting “death to the dictator,” followed by scenes of security officials marking buildings with warning stickers, and in some cases, arresting residents.
“We got information that someone in your building was chanting and it was coming from your apartment,” a member of the security forces tells a man in the blurred video posted by Iranian media outlets on social media. The post citing Iran’s national police read, “Everything is under surveillance.”
Another tactic involved a communications blackout at an unprecedented scale. For days, Iran became nearly impossible to reach from the outside world. Even SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet terminals, used by Iranians to circumvent the restrictions, were jammed using what experts describe as military-grade technology.
“I haven’t seen anything like that at all. It was not regular jamming, they have some sort of military equipment,” Amir Rashidi, an Iranian cybersecurity expert and director at New York City-based Miaan group, a digital advocacy group, said.
The country’s decades-long push to nationalize its internet infrastructure – accelerated by intensifying international sanctions – has given the state far greater capacity to censor, throttle and control online activity.
Iran completely shut down the internet during the 2019 fuel-price protests and the 2022 women’s rights demonstrations. But the scale and sophistication of the recent blackout demonstrates significant advancements in the government’s ability to activate and enforce communications control.
“You now see near total automation of the process… and it’s almost an instantaneous process at that point,” Alp Toker, the founder of internet monitoring group Netblocks, told CNN. “It’s amongst the most severe internet disruptions we’ve tracked around the world.”
Rashidi said the Starlink terminals were being jammed, using methods like those employed by the Russian military in Ukraine.
“They (the regime) haven’t tried to jam Starlink before. They are definitely better than ever,” Rashidi said.
Although Starlink is not officially licensed to operate in Iran, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX which owns Starlink, had previously stated that the service is active and available in the country.
Nationwide protests have continued in Iran for two weeks but escalated significantly on January 10. Crowds, some of them violent, took to the street demanding the overthrow of the regime, triggering an unprecedented level of violence that left hundreds killed, with thousands arrested.
The crackdown that followed, lasting almost three days, may have produced one of the highest death tolls since Iran’s 1979 revolution. Iran has yet to take responsibility or admit that it killed protesters, instead claiming that protesters were killed by “rioters” employed by Israel and the United States.
In past protests, that level of response would have taken the government weeks to activate. But the rapid mobilization of the Basij paramilitary force – which was also deployed on the streets to identify infiltrators during the war with Israel – signals a willingness of authorities to employ deadly violence as it grows increasingly paranoid of dissent and labels it as a foreign conspiracy.
“It’s a delicate time for them. It’s not a surprise that they have responded in a such an aggressive and heavy-handed manner as they’re afraid,” Matthew Levitt, a counter terrorism expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “The regime is now fighting against its own people.”
Following the war with Israel, official discourse in Iran acknowledged that the strikes exposed the country’s weaknesses. This appears to have shaped internal thinking about the country’s strategic position and allowed the regime to portray protesters as agents of the enemy, while granting itself greater justification to unleash intensified violence against them.
The regime’s propaganda apparatus, operating through state-run and government-affiliated media outlets, has worked to instill fear, repeatedly warning citizens that they are under constant surveillance and cautioning against joining the protests. In an unusually grim move, state television aired a report from a morgue showing rows of body bags, apparently intended to deter potential demonstrators from joining.
It was also quick to release figures on security force deaths and to accuse “rioters” of killing civilians. State media aired footage of dozens of blindfolded detainees lined up against walls, broadcast confessions, and released images of seized weapons, including what appeared to be axes and daggers carried by the protesters.
Massive crowds filled public squares in state-sanctioned demonstrations to show unwavering support for the regime, as loyalists reacted with outrage to footage of violence against the Islamic Republic.
By Monday, there were signs that protests in Tehran were not as big as they had been over the weekend, following the massive regime crackdown, though gauging the true scale is all but impossible given the ongoing communications blackout. Iran’s foreign minister felt confident enough on Monday to claim that the government had the situation “under control.”
It is possible, however, that protests could ramp back up following President Trump’s renewed call on Tuesday for Iranians to keep demonstrating, coupled with his vow that “help is on the way.”
“KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
us.cnn.com
Iran has deployed new techniques to swiftly and decisively crush nationwide protests, signaling a tactical shift by a regime that now views domestic dissent as an extension of the summer war with Israel.
What began as the regime’s age-old riot-control methods quickly escalated into advanced techniques to suppress protests, combining cutting-edge military technology with sophisticated psychological operations, according to experts.
Low-flying surveillance drones, signal jammers, a rapid-response propaganda apparatus, and the violent deployment of force were unleashed simultaneously by a regime keen to learn from each wave of unrest.
Iran’s latest playbook to crush dissent reflects lessons adopted after deep Israeli infiltration of the country shocked and embarrassed the regime due to the role in played in Israel’s success in the 12-day war in June. The increasingly paranoid government now frames the latest wave of domestic unrest as the “thirteenth day of war” with Israel, painting protesters as foreign agents that need to be “dealt with.”
Protesters were heavily surveilled with CCTV cameras on the streets, but even those who chose to protest from their homes by shouting anti-regime slogans from their windows were being watched. Iranian police distributed a video titled “Identifable Sounds” showing drones hovering outside apartment buildings to find people chanting against the regime.
Set to ominous background music, the footage showed a drone operator peering into residential windows to identify people chanting “death to the dictator,” followed by scenes of security officials marking buildings with warning stickers, and in some cases, arresting residents.
“We got information that someone in your building was chanting and it was coming from your apartment,” a member of the security forces tells a man in the blurred video posted by Iranian media outlets on social media. The post citing Iran’s national police read, “Everything is under surveillance.”
Another tactic involved a communications blackout at an unprecedented scale. For days, Iran became nearly impossible to reach from the outside world. Even SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet terminals, used by Iranians to circumvent the restrictions, were jammed using what experts describe as military-grade technology.
“I haven’t seen anything like that at all. It was not regular jamming, they have some sort of military equipment,” Amir Rashidi, an Iranian cybersecurity expert and director at New York City-based Miaan group, a digital advocacy group, said.
The country’s decades-long push to nationalize its internet infrastructure – accelerated by intensifying international sanctions – has given the state far greater capacity to censor, throttle and control online activity.
Iran completely shut down the internet during the 2019 fuel-price protests and the 2022 women’s rights demonstrations. But the scale and sophistication of the recent blackout demonstrates significant advancements in the government’s ability to activate and enforce communications control.
“You now see near total automation of the process… and it’s almost an instantaneous process at that point,” Alp Toker, the founder of internet monitoring group Netblocks, told CNN. “It’s amongst the most severe internet disruptions we’ve tracked around the world.”
Rashidi said the Starlink terminals were being jammed, using methods like those employed by the Russian military in Ukraine.
“They (the regime) haven’t tried to jam Starlink before. They are definitely better than ever,” Rashidi said.
Although Starlink is not officially licensed to operate in Iran, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX which owns Starlink, had previously stated that the service is active and available in the country.
Nationwide protests have continued in Iran for two weeks but escalated significantly on January 10. Crowds, some of them violent, took to the street demanding the overthrow of the regime, triggering an unprecedented level of violence that left hundreds killed, with thousands arrested.
The crackdown that followed, lasting almost three days, may have produced one of the highest death tolls since Iran’s 1979 revolution. Iran has yet to take responsibility or admit that it killed protesters, instead claiming that protesters were killed by “rioters” employed by Israel and the United States.
In past protests, that level of response would have taken the government weeks to activate. But the rapid mobilization of the Basij paramilitary force – which was also deployed on the streets to identify infiltrators during the war with Israel – signals a willingness of authorities to employ deadly violence as it grows increasingly paranoid of dissent and labels it as a foreign conspiracy.
“It’s a delicate time for them. It’s not a surprise that they have responded in a such an aggressive and heavy-handed manner as they’re afraid,” Matthew Levitt, a counter terrorism expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “The regime is now fighting against its own people.”
Following the war with Israel, official discourse in Iran acknowledged that the strikes exposed the country’s weaknesses. This appears to have shaped internal thinking about the country’s strategic position and allowed the regime to portray protesters as agents of the enemy, while granting itself greater justification to unleash intensified violence against them.
The regime’s propaganda apparatus, operating through state-run and government-affiliated media outlets, has worked to instill fear, repeatedly warning citizens that they are under constant surveillance and cautioning against joining the protests. In an unusually grim move, state television aired a report from a morgue showing rows of body bags, apparently intended to deter potential demonstrators from joining.
It was also quick to release figures on security force deaths and to accuse “rioters” of killing civilians. State media aired footage of dozens of blindfolded detainees lined up against walls, broadcast confessions, and released images of seized weapons, including what appeared to be axes and daggers carried by the protesters.
Massive crowds filled public squares in state-sanctioned demonstrations to show unwavering support for the regime, as loyalists reacted with outrage to footage of violence against the Islamic Republic.
By Monday, there were signs that protests in Tehran were not as big as they had been over the weekend, following the massive regime crackdown, though gauging the true scale is all but impossible given the ongoing communications blackout. Iran’s foreign minister felt confident enough on Monday to claim that the government had the situation “under control.”
It is possible, however, that protests could ramp back up following President Trump’s renewed call on Tuesday for Iranians to keep demonstrating, coupled with his vow that “help is on the way.”
“KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The US, as seen in the US-Iran conflict (Version 1.0), tends to prefer swift action—striking hard, causing significant damage, and then withdrawing, declaring victory. It’s likely that the same approach will be adopted in Version 2.
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Version 1 was staged to create a ceasefire situation which Israel was begging for.
It did not really hit any target.
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