Posted on 07/05/2025 2:37:32 PM PDT by Libloather
In the wake of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, the regime appears to be turning inward — escalating repression with chilling speed.
According to Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, the Islamic Republic is accelerating toward what he said is a "North Korea-style model of isolation and control."
"We’re witnessing a kind of domestic isolation that will have major consequences for the Iranian people," Aarabi told Fox News Digital. "The regime has always been totalitarian, but the level of suppression now is unprecedented. It’s unlike anything we’ve seen before."
A source inside Iran confirmed to Fox News Digital that "the repression has become terrifying."
Aarabi, who maintains direct lines of contact in Iran, described a country under siege by its own rulers. In Tehran, he described how citizens are stopped at random, their phones confiscated and searched. "If you have content deemed pro-Israel or mocking the regime, you disappear," he said. "People are now leaving their phones at home or deleting everything before they step outside."
This new wave of paranoia and fear, he explained, mirrors tactics seen in North Korea — where citizens vanish without explanation and information is tightly controlled. During the recent conflict, Iran’s leadership imposed a total internet blackout to isolate the population, blocking Israeli evacuation alerts, and pushed propaganda that framed Israel as targeting civilians indiscriminately.
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The French helped us at Yorktown. Remember the history? It would be nice if we had the same opportunity. The buster bombs-we did it for us and the Arabs.
Movements like that are usually indicative of a dying regime.
“The French helped us at Yorktown. Remember the history?”
If not for France there would be no United States.
A story like this tells me more about true civil unrest than rumors that the regime is unpopular. Confiscating phones. Ha! This isn’t 1970s East German, and Iran isn’t a commie bordered peninsula like North Korea. No way the information stays out.
Iran is Iran the United States is the United States.
Fox News is not inciting me to regime change that’s what I got to say.
The Iranian men, the Israeli men and the American men all go to Bangkok and Phuket in Thailand.
That’s what God sees IMHO.
truly an enemy of my enemy..
situation
they hated the brits
“If not for France there would be no United States.”
Yep.
Or it at least would have been much more difficult.
That’s right.
I see this as someone thinking “NK turned inward like this and they were able to get the bomb without anyone noticing, or being able to stop them. Maybe we can do the same thing!”
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