Posted on 10/08/2022 1:05:38 PM PDT by nuconvert
Iranian Regime national tv Channel One hacked about an hour ago. During a broadcast of Khamenie speech, a red crosshair appeared over his face and chanting of Women. Life. Freedom. There was writing to the side saying "Rise up. Join us". Also 4 photos at the bottom of the screen of young people killed and additional writing: "The blood of our youth is dropping from your paws".
Also, there was a huge banner in the middle of Tehran highway today that read: We are no longer afraid of you. We will fight.
Also, attempted attack on IRI ambassador in Denmark. Her bodyguard was stabbed. Diplomatic Security intervened before the attacker could stab the ambassador.
Iran Update, May 22, 2023
Iran condemned the Arab League’s resolution about arming militias in Syria and is very unlikely to stop supporting its proxies in Syria.
Iran is establishing a military base in eastern Syria, likely advancing efforts to secure permanent access to critical transportation routes across the country.
Rear Admiral Ali Akbar Ahmadian replaced Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani as the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary on May 22, and is unlikely to change the regime’s national security policy.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-22-2023
“Transferring the residents of Tabriz to another place requires 500 billion dollars while the cost of reviving the lake is about one billion dollars,” Isa Kalantari said, explaining that the salt dust would be unbearable for residents in Tabriz and its surrounding cities. Last year, he had also warned that if the lake is not restored, it will have security consequences, causing a flood of millions of displaced citizens.
Experts say groundwater extraction and using the water of the once bountiful Zarrineh Rud − which feeds Lake Urmia − for irrigating apple trees have both contributed to the lake shrinking by nearly 95 percent in volume over the past 20 years. In 2021 alone, more than 100,000 tons of apples of the province's production went to waste. Urmia, which is the largest lake in Iran and the sixth largest salt lake in the world, began shrinking in the mid-1980s and was in danger of disappearing altogether until recovery plans began to be implemented in 2014.
Japan, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) allocated nearly ten billion dollars to save the lake. It is not clear whether or how the earmarked budget was spent.
Iran Update, May 23, 2023
Iran and Iranian-backed militias facilitated the travel of Iranian religious pilgrims into Syria, possibly to expand Iranian influence in Syria.
Anti-regime protests organized by Iranian university students have increased in recent weeks, demonstrating the regime’s failure to suppress a key demographic of the Mahsa Amini movement.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-23-2023
Iran Update, May 24, 2023
Iran has transferred unsophisticated air defense weapons to Syria, possibly to protect advanced weapons shipments and IRGC Quds Force commanders from Israeli drone strikes.
The Raisi administration is pursuing greater economic cooperation with Indonesia, which could help Iran evade sanctions by transporting oil to China via Indonesia.
Media reports discussing former Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani may reflect an intra-regime struggle over Shamkhani’s future political trajectory.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-24-2023
Iran Update, May 25, 2023
Axis of Resistance news sources coordinated a disinformation campaign that claimed the United States will establish a new base in Iraq, likely to reignite domestic US pressure on policymakers to withdraw forces from the Middle East.
The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) stands to gain a significant increase in funds from Iraq’s 2023 budget, which very likely would position the group to improve its status as a parallel security institution in Iraq to state security forces.
Syrian regime military security coordinated with the IRGC Quds Force in Albu Kamal to monitor civilians, which may advance Iranian efforts to secure the Albu Kamal-Deir ez Zor City land route in eastern Syria.
An Iranian-backed militia leader stressed the need for secrecy around headquarters in Deir ez Zor City, likely to secure advanced weapons and IRGC Quds Force commanders from Israeli targeting.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-25-2023
Iran Update, May 26, 2023
Saudi media reported Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) is preparing to target US forces in Syria, which likely misrepresents the threat LH poses.
Iran has increasingly engaged in prisoner exchanges with Western countries in recent weeks, likely to signal its willingness to resume nuclear negotiations. Iran could be signaling its interest in nuclear diplomacy to preempt US or Israeli military action against its nuclear facilities.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-26-2023
ISLAMISTS AGAINST ISLAMISTS Taliban attack Iran
Taliban fighters and Iranian border troops fought heavy fighting on the Iran-Afghan border near the city of Zabol on Saturday and Sunday.
Videos on social networks show Taliban fighters with assault rifles, pick-up trucks and attached machine guns. Under machine gun fire, the Taliban approach a fortified facility and shell the Iranian border posts entrenched there. They responded with mortar shells, among other things. There were reported deaths on both sides.
The province in the south-east of the country is one of the poorest in Iran. The population there suffers even more than in other parts of the country from the mismanagement of the mullahs’ regime. In order to alleviate the drought in eastern Iran, the regime is trying to claim more water from the Hilmend River: Tehran is referring to an agreement between the two countries from 1973, although the governments in Iran and Afghanistan have since been taken over by hostile Islamists. The dispute over the water from the Hilmend has led to mutual accusations between the Islamist regimes in Tehran and Kabul in recent weeks; last week the foreign ministers of both sides announced that the dispute had been settled.
For the Iranian mullah regime, not only the water supply in the region is a threat to its rule: a large part of the population in the border region are Sunni Baloch, who have been brutally oppressed by the ruling Shiite mullah regime for decades.
videos:
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1662745858004197376
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1662733238509481984
https://twitter.com/GeneralLinda8/status/1662678316313133056
“Taliban fighters and Iranian border troops fought heavy fighting”
The more of each other they kill, the better
Thanks AdmSmith.
It was only a matter of time.
Balochs live in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, and number around 20 million people.
Setting up yet another Islamic dictatorship helps the long term goal of taking complete control of the UN General Assembly, hence all the separatist "movements" (astroturf) in, for example, Africa, and the ongoing dissolution of other hellholes.
Our main tactic should be to make sure neither side runs out of ammo, until both mostly vanish thanks to the Paradox of Zeno.
Agree !
Abas Aslani:Prospects of Iran-Taliban Hydropolitical Conflict Iran, Taliban forces exchange fire in border area
The dispute over rights to the Hirmand River has long been a contentious hydropolitical issue between Iran and Afghanistan, projected to significantly shape the future of Tehran-Kabul relations in light of recent tensions and environmental developments. Tehran steadfastly demands the enforcement of the 1973 water-sharing treaty, while the Taliban contends the Hirmand’s water supply is inadequate. Contrarily, Iran recently presented satellite images depicting considerable water reserves in Kajaki and Kamal Khan dams. Consequently, Iran's foreign minister issued an uncommon statement asserting that the nation does not recognize the ruling regime in Kabul. The exchange of fire in border area that transpired on May 27 took place amid escalating pressures over the water dispute.
More:
https://www.irannuances.com/2023/05/27/prospects-of-iran-taliban-hydro-political-conflict/
Note that the above about the conflict is written from the Iranian perspective. I will try to find the Taliban talking points.
No clashes today and both sides will investigate why it happened. https://t.me/Yaqeentv1/1609
According to this the reason was that the Iranians started construction of military facilities at the border https://twitter.com/yaqeennetwork/status/1662503934223687681
The former director of the notorious Evin prison in Tehran has accused President Ebrahim Raisi of having a direct role in executing political prisoners under the founder of Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini.
Hossein Mortazavi Zanjani said in a virtual meeting on Clubhouse that Raisi, who was the deputy prosecutor of Tehran, told him: “We went and got an order from Ayatollah Khomeini to execute the prisoners.”
This is the first revelation by a former judiciary official about the direct involvement of the Iranian president in the killing of political prisoners in the 1980s. The exact number of prisoners executed during the purge of prisoners is not known but according to Amnesty International, the Iranian authorities “forcibly disappeared” and “extrajudicially executed” around 5,000 between July and September 1988.
Mortazavi further stated that female prisoners still virgins were forcibly married to jailers before the execution. According to the narrative of political prisoners, the clerics of the Islamic Republic believed if the virgin girls were executed, they would go to heaven, and for this reason, they raped them in the form of forced marriage so that they would not die virgins. ”The father of one of the executed virgin girls told me that after the execution of his daughter, the agents gave him money saying the money is for his daughter's marriage endowment.”
Seems like old news to me
Yes, it happened in the 80s, perhaps he said it in public earlier than this year?
Iran Update, May 30, 2023
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted airstrikes on at least two joint Syrian Arab Army-Lebanese Hezbollah positions in southwestern Syria on May 28, which is unlikely to prompt an Iranian-directed attack on US forces in Syria.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is preparing to launch artillery into Iraqi Kurdistan, likely as part of a short-term military conflict against perceived Israeli threats from the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
Iranian and Afghan border guards engaged in a brief and lethal clash near the Malik-Zaranj border crossing on May 27, which Iran is unlikely to escalate to a larger armed conflict.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-30-2023
Iran has bolstered its defensive position in eastern Syria since the end of the escalation cycle that occurred in March, likely to facilitate the transfer of advanced conventional weapons into Syria. The escalation cycle between Iran, Israel and the United States may have prompted Iran to halt transferring advanced conventional weapons through Deir ez Zor.
The Raisi administration is reconfiguring personnel to economically benefit from Iranian and Syrian reintegration into the region.
Iran is likely attempting to coerce Iraq into complying with Iranian security concerns about Israeli activities in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iran and the Taliban are signaling they seek to avoid further border clashes over water disputes while preparing for further border clashes.
The Iranian Parliament approved Reza Morad Sahraei as Iran's new education minister on May 30, which could lead to intensified government indoctrination efforts and crackdowns on university student protests.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-31-2023
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