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Regime’s Barbarism on Full Display: Iranians Swarm Key Infrastructure with CIVILIANS as Human Shields in Desperate Bid to Shield Mullahs’ Regime from US Attacks
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Apr. 7, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft

Posted on 04/07/2026 10:00:36 AM PDT by V_TWIN

Iran’s bloodthirsty mullahs are now openly turning their own citizens, including children and young people, into human shields around the regime’s critical power plants and key infrastructure sites.

As The Gateway Pundit reported just hours ago, Iran’s Deputy Minister for Youth Affairs and Secretary of the Supreme Youth Council, Alireza Rahimi, has brazenly called on “young people, athletes, artists, students and professors” to gather around the nation’s power plants at 2 p.m. local time today.

They’re dubbing it the “Iran’s Youth Human Chain for a Bright Future.”

Reports flooding in confirm Iranians are already gathering en masse around key sites. Videos on social media show crowds forming human chains at power plants nationwide, with state media blasting the call as a “show of solidarity.”

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Drop a couple of bombs slightly off target.....they'll move

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1 posted on 04/07/2026 10:00:36 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Anyone who willfully responded to the IGRC call to do this deserves to go up in smoke along with the target since they are in collusion with the IGRC.


2 posted on 04/07/2026 10:03:08 AM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: V_TWIN

For how long?


3 posted on 04/07/2026 10:05:15 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: TonyM

There is no internet or media and the government is not really asking/is lying about what is going on so I do not agree with you.


4 posted on 04/07/2026 10:06:04 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: V_TWIN

We’ll kill thousands of children and be marked by the world, rightly or wrongly, as barbarians. Surely there must be another way to do this short of total destruction.
Iran is not days or weeks away from long range missiles and nuclear bombs. We were told time and again that their programs were seriously degraded. What’s the truth??


5 posted on 04/07/2026 10:06:16 AM PDT by Deo volente
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Knowing what I know about iran....these people have more than likely been threatened with certain death if they don’t comply.

I suspect that just off camera, there are dozens of AK-47s pointed directly at them.


6 posted on 04/07/2026 10:06:18 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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To: V_TWIN

It just means they move up the schedule for ground forces.


7 posted on 04/07/2026 10:07:55 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I would have been an awesome merchant marine. I can sell convenient store items very well.)
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To: V_TWIN

Behold the brave warriors! When the great satan come to give them the battle they’ve craved for 47 years, they hide behind woman and children.


8 posted on 04/07/2026 10:09:10 AM PDT by wny
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And if they don’t go, they’ll be hanged from the bridges and power lines.


9 posted on 04/07/2026 10:09:23 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Deo volente

“We’ll kill thousands of children and be marked by the world, rightly or wrongly, as barbarians. Surely there must be another way to do this short of total destruction.”

Your mindset is exactly what iran is hoping for.

They cant protect every bridge and power plant in the country......all we have to do is pivot and hit where they aren’t.


10 posted on 04/07/2026 10:09:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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Wonder if that Youth Minister is out there with the children?


11 posted on 04/07/2026 10:10:44 AM PDT by allendale
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👍


12 posted on 04/07/2026 10:11:07 AM PDT by sopo
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The video clips show them outside the fences. Our bombs could be confined to the inside wouldn’t you say?

Then there’s the transmission lines and towers leaving the site. A few gatling gun bursts from an A-10 Warthog can keep the power stations intact. Then I’d look for videos of the people cheering.


13 posted on 04/07/2026 10:12:43 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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At this point there’s such a frenzy, on both sides, that I honestly fear that we might unleash hundreds of nuclear bombs and turn the entire country into atomic dust. Seriously. I wonder now if our leaders are going mad. I don’t think it’s just negotiating rhetoric any more. We’re going to go full on medieval on Iran, and many people here will be rejoicing at the wholesale vengeance.
Opening the diabolical nuclear box will have terrible consequences for our nation. Let’s step back a bit from the brink before we do something entirely stupid.


14 posted on 04/07/2026 10:14:47 AM PDT by Deo volente
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To: wny

bttt


15 posted on 04/07/2026 10:15:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Deo volente

I’ve wondered about announcing the targets since Trump started talking about them. Bad plan. As far as the power plants go, I’m guessing they’ll use graphite bombs. Unlike normal explosives, these explode over the target and drop conductive filaments which short out the equipment without physically destroying it. Presumably, nobody will be hurt by the actual “bomb” since it’s not a traditional explosive.

Equipment will burn up and breakers will blow. But no physical destruction will take place on the actual structures. So returning them to service means replacing generators and electrical infrastructure, which is well less than half the cost of the actual plant. It can all be shipped in later from abroad.


16 posted on 04/07/2026 10:16:17 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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Confusing...are these not the Iranians we were told about...
who were supposed to be rising up “against” the regime?


17 posted on 04/07/2026 10:16:48 AM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Govrnment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slaveryen .)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Fox is now showing video of people directly on the bridge.

Mostly burka wearing females of course


18 posted on 04/07/2026 10:17:23 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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“Iran is not days or weeks away from long range missiles and nuclear bombs. We were told time and again that their programs were seriously degraded. What’s the truth??”

Missiles able to reach the USA would take several months.

My estimate for a bomb is three weeks.

Building a bomb is not enough, it has to be delivered. It might be smuggled.

To achieve maximum damage, an airburst about three miles above ground is required.


19 posted on 04/07/2026 10:18:09 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Trump is herding the checks. I just know it

while Iran and media are focusing on public displays on bridges or transformer stations, things will happen elsewhere


20 posted on 04/07/2026 10:18:42 AM PDT by PGR88
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