01FEB2026: Hossam Al-Din Haeri Zadeh https://x.com/haerizadeh_h is Iranian regime-aligned ideologue who markets himself as a “strategy instructor with Quranic rules” offers a chilling manual for security forces: he calls street protests a “battlefield,” assumes the officer has killed someone, then asks what the officer should feel afterward. His answer is the point of the indoctrination: the problem is not killing, but killing with the “wrong intention.” In other words: kill, but for God, not out of personal anger. This is religious engineering designed to dehumanize protesters, sanctify state violence, and relieve perpetrators of moral responsibility.
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Ali Asghar Hejazi, deputy chief of staff to the former Supreme Leader, and Alireza Arafi, a member of the Guardian Council and a member of Interim Leadership Council are among clerics who have raised concerns about Mojtaba Khamenei’s health and managerial capacity, sources told Iran International. They are pushing for authority at the top of the Islamic Republic to return to a temporary leadership council.
Hejazi and Arafi are also among influential clerics who have criticized the growing power of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the increasing dominance of its commanders over government decision-making during the war. Divisions between political officials and ruling clerics on one side and Revolutionary Guards commanders on the other have deepened following the killing of Iran's former leader, particularly after Mojtaba Khamenei was introduced as the new head of the Islamic Republic.