Widespread uprising in Iran -

[Arcturian108]

From the Epoch Times, we have this opinion: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epocht...erview-5969600

[Bright Skies]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Syrian Girl (Dr Maram Susli, an Australian journalist) was interviewed on Redacted yesterday.

As could be expected, she explained exactly what's really happening: violent protests entirely orchestrated by western assets, now dispelled by the Iranian authorities. Almost all of the news reports in western mainstream media are falsified anti-Iranian propaganda or very greatly exaggerated.

IRAN GOES DARK: You’re Watching The WAR PSYOP LIVE (CIA, MOSSAD, FSB all involved) | Redacted News

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X6tV9Hc6arM

Maram Susli lives in the same city as me. I am very close to her godmother who is a woman of Russian heritage.

Maram recently completed her PhD however due to her stances she was almost prevented from graduating.

Posted by Arcturian108 (here)
From the Epoch Times, we have this opinion: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epocht...erview-5969600

One has to sign up to view the video. However, Bijan Kian is an Iranian-American banker who supports the Zionist-US Empire.

When he tweets "People in Iran will get their country back with this revolution" he also means that The Empire will once again own Iran.

Not all 92 million Iranians agree with a foreign takeover and certainly not those involved in the counter-protests.

Additionally, those calling for the return of the King seem to conveniently forget that the Shah's Iran was also a brutal police state and many opponents of the Shah were disappeared, tortured and murdered by the hands of the SAVAK.

The following is the commentary of a secular British-Iranian who is opposed to The Empire:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MV0TMTP7Hlo

[rgray222]

Posted by Bright Skies (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Syrian Girl (Dr Maram Susli, an Australian journalist) was interviewed on Redacted yesterday.

As could be expected, she explained exactly what's really happening: violent protests entirely orchestrated by western assets, now dispelled by the Iranian authorities. Almost all of the news reports in western mainstream media are falsified anti-Iranian propaganda or very greatly exaggerated.

IRAN GOES DARK: You’re Watching The WAR PSYOP LIVE (CIA, MOSSAD, FSB all involved) | Redacted News

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X6tV9Hc6arM

Consider the gravity of the casualties, even with these extremely unreliable numbers, 2150 dead, 600 missing, and 500 injured. If any Western government, be it Canada, Australia, the United States, or a European nation, were responsible for such loss of life and injury among its own citizens, it would provoke widespread outrage. People across the political spectrum and from all walks of life would demand that the government step down and be prosecuted for their crimes against its citizens. Clayton Morris and his wife lack credibility and have little regard for accuracy and truth. They are agenda-driven, and it is crystal clear that they will say and do anything to promote their beliefs. Peace does not seem to be a word that is in their vocabulary.

There are only two reasons for the government to shut down all internal and external communications, to prevent protesters from organizing and to stop the flow of images, videos, and news from inside Iran to the outside world.

Nobody dispute that the CIA, Mossad and even MI6 may have supported or encouraged these protests, but this does not prevent people from seeing the reality that the Khamenei government is an oppressive regime. It is simply hard to deny.

[Bright Skies]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
Nobody dispute that the CIA, Mossad and even MI6 may have supported or encouraged these protests, but this does not prevent people from seeing the reality that the Khamenei government is an oppressive regime. It is simply hard to deny.

Of course. I once had a conversation with one of the best friends of Ghazaleh Chalabi who was shot in the head by the Revolutionary Guard during the 'Zan, Zendegi, Azadi' protests in 2022.

This evening I will meet with an Iranian friend where I live to discuss the current situation.

Although impossible to achieve, I would like an accurate break-down of the opinions of the ~92 million Iranians within Iran and the ~4 million Iranians within the Iranian diaspora.

From the Iranians I know personally there is division and mixed feelings. For example, one Iranian I know who lives in Karaj was clapping and cheering when the Zionists launched their surprise attack in June last year whilst another Iranian I know, although not a supporter of the theocracy, was fully supportive of the defence of their nation against a foreign attack and possible invasion.

But I haven't heard anything from my contacts in Iran for days now due to the outages.

Instead of the options on offer (Shia Islamic theocracy vs Zionist-US subjugation) I really wish there was a third independent alternative - true freedom, true azadi. !ئازادی

[jaybee]

Posted by thirtythree (here)
Worth listening to an actual Iranian speaking from Iran.

video snipped - see#18 on first page -

He's not just Iranian, though, and has dual nationality - he's American/Iranian - was born in the US and lived in America for the first 13 years of his life - apparently he didn't learn to speak Farsi (the official language of Iran) until he left the US - that's why he has no trace of an accent -

He did his PhD at Birmingham University in the Midlands, UK (Lord Byron, his critics and Orientalism (2003) - so I'm surprised he didn't develop a touch of a Brummy accent lol....(I jest)...

Mohammad Marandi is a very eloquent and engaging personality - and comes over as honest, calm and rational - basically he is a Middle Class academic....who's father fled Iran at some point and then returned becoming the personal physician to the Ayatollah Khamenei - there is NO information about his mother anywhere... wiki page and another article about him....

Does all this matter...? Maybe not - but at the end of the day he isn't your typical Iranian citizen -

[thirtythree]

Posted by rgray222 (here)

Posted by Bright Skies (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Syrian Girl (Dr Maram Susli, an Australian journalist) was interviewed on Redacted yesterday.

As could be expected, she explained exactly what's really happening: violent protests entirely orchestrated by western assets, now dispelled by the Iranian authorities. Almost all of the news reports in western mainstream media are falsified anti-Iranian propaganda or very greatly exaggerated.

IRAN GOES DARK: You’re Watching The WAR PSYOP LIVE (CIA, MOSSAD, FSB all involved) | Redacted News

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X6tV9Hc6arM

Consider the gravity of the casualties, even with these extremely unreliable numbers, 2150 dead, 600 missing, and 500 injured. If any Western government, be it Canada, Australia, the United States, or a European nation, were responsible for such loss of life and injury among its own citizens, it would provoke widespread outrage. People across the political spectrum and from all walks of life would demand that the government step down and be prosecuted for their crimes against its citizens. Clayton Morris and his wife lack credibility and have little regard for accuracy and truth. They are agenda-driven, and it is crystal clear that they will say and do anything to promote their beliefs. Peace does not seem to be a word that is in their vocabulary.

There are only two reasons for the government to shut down all internal and external communications, to prevent protesters from organizing and to stop the flow of images, videos, and news from inside Iran to the outside world.

Nobody dispute that the CIA, Mossad and even MI6 may have supported or encouraged these protests, but this does not prevent people from seeing the reality that the Khamenei government is an oppressive regime. It is simply hard to deny.

And reason 3

To stop the agitators from co-coordinating with their foreign counterparts.

[rgray222]

What I find so fascinating about the Iranian situation is that so many people from the West are willing to overlook the oppressive government in Iran because they have a shared opposition to Western policies, have a shared solidarity with the Palestinian plight, they disapprove of Israeli policies, and they have an anit zionism approach to the Middle East. All these issues are overlapping factors, and so many people do not seem to be (or are not willing) to separate these issues and deal with them on their own merits.

This fact is allowing so many people to overlook the cultural clash, cultural conflict and most importantly the cultural incompatibility of Muslim immigration into Western countries.

[thirtythree]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
What I find so fascinating about the Iranian situation is that so many people from the West are willing to overlook the oppressive government in Iran because they have a shared opposition to Western policies, have a shared solidarity with the Palestinian plight, they disapprove of Israeli policies, and they have an anit zionism approach to the Middle East. All these issues are overlapping factors, and so many people do not seem to be (or are not willing) to separate these issues and deal with them on their own merits.

This fact is allowing so many people to overlook the cultural clash, cultural conflict and most importantly the cultural incompatibility of Muslim immigration into Western countries.

I agree, maybe it's the old adage 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'.

Many support Iran because of it's principled stance against the Zionist political ideology and Neo-colonialism.

Same can be said for those who are in favor of war with Iran because they have an axe to grind against Islam.

Iranian Muslims do not wish to impose their way of life onto the west. If life is hard for the average Iranian, that is because of crippling sanctions which have been weaponized in order to force the regime into compliance.

As for cultural clash, the world is beautiful because it's diverse.

Also, concessions were made in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini when the government lifted the decree of mandatory head scarves for women. Tehran feels like any other modern middle-eastern capital city.

As Bright Skies wrote above, A sweet-spot between Shia Islamic theocracy and Zionist-US subjugation would be ideal but definitely not another west-backed puppet.

[Jaak]

[norman]

Joaquin Flores seems to have some useful specifics to know about regarding the power plays revolving around the situation in Iran.

I don't know how much he really knows what he's talking about beyond that, though.


Joaquin Flores - Iran in Crisis: The Truth About the Internal Power Struggle
Crypto Rich - Jan 13, 2026


In this video, I sit down with analyst Joaquin Flores to break down what’s really happening inside Iran right now. We look beyond the headlines to explore the internal power struggles, street unrest, economic and diplomatic pressures


36 mins

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yTnNvDPTDdw

General Flynn, in a recent interview is concerned that Trump may be being served a foreign policy 'Turd' by elements within his own political teams. I hope those military planners under Cheyenne Mountain are well on top of that.





But, I still think Holt and Burlingame are the real adults in the room.

WW3 WARNING: The Trap Has Been Set in Iran (with EM Burlingame & Blaine Holt)
Crypto Rich - Jan 9, 2026


In short, but there's a lot more to it, The initial 'revolution' in Iran is an attempt to replace the political government (not Islamic elite) that Trump has a peace deal with and get their bipolar stressor dynamic restored in the region.

The active primary struggle is not the ground up 'revolution', it's the control and direction and big picture outcome from it. Trump has to make sure the imperialists who pulled the trigger don't hit their target and make the people's revolution a real one that ousts both the islamists and their European puppet masters.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0IwonmTHLeU

[Bill Ryan]

Here's Mohammad Marandi talking to Judge Napolitano yesterday. What he presents is surely accurate.

1. A western financial intervention to weaken or collapse the economy.
2. Legitimate, peaceful protests by business owners worried about their livelihood.
3. A sudden escalation of extremely violent protests, precipitated by Mossad and the US. The number of deaths, including those of many police and innocent people, was probably in the low thousands (but is very hard to know for sure).
4. The internet was shut down all over the country, certainly with technical help from Russia and/or China.
5. Order is now restored. Pro-government rallies took to the streets in numbers which Mohammad Marandi estimates as 3 million people. (He was there.)

LIVE FROM TEHRAN: Foreign Pressure or Internal Crisis? : Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p7_Z7lmL7j0

[Bill Ryan]

Copying this post by Helvetic on his thread. I've no doubt that this too is accurate.

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Iran’s Minister of Defense: We arrested an individual who received ~$6000 for killing people. | Jan. 15, 2026

Source: AryJeay on X

Description:

Iran’s Minister of Defense: We arrested an individual who received ~$6000 for killing people.

He says:

• We’ve precise intelligence indicating that the US, Zionist regime, and some of their allied countries set up coordination centers to work with separatists and terrorists to shape a future scenario.

• They even planned for each separated region to draft its own constitution, and they directed arms smuggling, as well as financial & logistical support.

• We have intelligence oversight of these matters, including that joint meetings to incite unrest in Iran were held in “one of the countries in the region,” where US intelligence services & some Western countries presented their own plans to increase funding.

• In those meetings, rates were set for acts of destruction in Iran:

- 500 million tomans for killing each person
- 200 million tomans for burning each vehicle
- 80 million tomans for burning police stations
- 15 million tomans for any form of harassment or disruptive action

• Paying 500 million tomans per killing means the objective was to manufacture deaths.

In this connection, a terrorist has been arrested who received 900 million tomans (~$6000) for carrying out such actions.

[jaybee]

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aaaaand relax (for now)......

after a tense build up of preparation America appears to be holding back from military action to support Iranians protesting against the Islamic Regime - Trump is saying that the killing is stopping and Regime plans to execute hundreds of protesters has been halted...

Trump softens his threat to strike Iran | 7NEWS (Australia) (2:27)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Z254kYEug

15 Jan 2026 World news | 7NEWS Australia
Is he buying time or changing tack? Donald Trump appears to have toned down his threat to strike Iran as the Islamic Republic's leadership fights back on the streets and the airwaves

While the whole situation appears to remain in a critical condition - there's a pause and as communications internally and with the wider world might now start to open up again - a better understanding will hopefully emerge -