Posts Tagged ‘Reza Pahlavi’

“President Trump Has Joined The Revolution”

Tuesday, January 13th, 2026

Tousi TV says that President Trump is fully on the side of the Iranian Revolution against the Mullahs:

  • “President Donald J. Trump has officially joined the revolution against the Islamic occupation in Iran!”
  • Reza Pahlavi and his mother, the last Empress of Iran, have also issued statements continuing to support the ousting of the Islamist regime.
  • The Iranian people are still out on the street.
  • President Trump has issued a statement stating the U.S. has broken off negotiation with the Islamist regime. “Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – Take OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.” MIGA stands for Make Iran Great Again.
  • President Trump said he would meet with the Islamist regime, but his preconditions were they had to stop killing protesters and release all political prisoners. Obviously that didn’t happen.
  • Tousi thinks symbolic airstrikes are off the table and now only regime change will suffice.
  • “On the ground, the situation is escalating very quickly.”
  • Internet and lighting blackouts remains in place.
  • The top of the regime is dug in and continues to kill the people. “This is war-level gunfire.”
  • “The BBC is the propaganda arm of the Iranian regime.”
  • Khamenei’s inner circle is “falling apart.”
  • Reza Pahlavi: Efforts to reestablish communications are underway.
  • “Massive reactions from the international community. Countries are jumping on the wagon, left, right and center, except for one country, that’s the United Kingdom, which is doubling down on support for the Islamic Republic.” More proof that Keir Starmer is a complete asshole.
  • “Australia are saying the current Islamic regime in Iran does not have legitimacy.”
  • Apart from Israel and the United States, the country most supporting the Iranian people has been Germany. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “I believe we are witnessing the final days of the regime. It has no legitimacy among the population.” It sounds like that vaunted “international community” Democrats are always nattering on about are ready for the mullahs to go.
  • American military assets are coming into the Middle East from Europe.
  • Over 12,000 Iranians have been killed by Ali Khamenei’s regime. “There’s been a huge number of defections from those refusing to follow orders, realizing Khamenei is on the way out.”
  • Khamenei is supposedly in a bunker on the desert.

    • Tousi seems to be getting key details about the situation right before the MSM reports them.

    Possibly more later.

    Update: Blog was briefly down due to excessive hits from 45.134.225.250. Reverse DNS doesn’t resolve a domain name. Anyone know what that could be?

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    Iran: IRGC Commanders Assassinated; U.S., Israeli Help Expected UPDATED

    Sunday, January 11th, 2026

    Friday we reported the assassination of IRCG commander Mahmoud Haqiqat in Iranshahr.

    Now, in a Livestream, TousiTV is reporting the assassination of other IRCG officials:

  • “Reza Kasab, head of a ballistic missile unit in Kashan, this was a professional hit. He was assassinated by a suicide drone attack.”
  • “There are a lot of operatives on the ground carrying out these attacks.”
  • “Multiple generals have been killed in Iran.”
  • He notes that Israel’s strikes last year killed multiple senior IRGC officials, so now the replacement leaders are being killed.
  • “Islamic State TV in Iran have confirmed that IRCG have lost hundreds of their personnel in leadership.” My suspicion is that the IRCG have lost hundreds, but not all in leadership.
  • Reports of Mossad agents on the ground helping the revolution. This is the sort of thing that both sides in the conflict would say to help shore up resolve in their respective bases, but the drone attack suggests it’s true. (Could also be IDF special forces, CIA, or U.S. special forces.)
  • But it carries more weight when it comes from Mossad’s official Farsi Twitter account. “Go out together into the streets. The time has come. We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.”
  • “There is someone professional carrying out these attacks against the Islamic occupation in Iran.”
  • “Reza Pahlavi has called for a general strike.” But everybody’s already on strike.
  • Reports of atrocities committed by the regime against the people (of course). “Over 2,000 people have been killed.”
  • Israel’s military is on full alert, and Iran is threatening to launch “over 500” missiles at them.
  • American strike against the regime expected on Tuesday? “Trump has been doubling down every single day.” And indeed, Tuesday seems to have a scheduled meeting for Trump to go over military options in Iran.

    • Caveats: Tousi TV is run by Mahyar Tousi, a fierce critic of Iran’s Islamist regime, so he’s more cheerleader for the revolution than a neutral observer. So am I, but I always council caution on believing good news you want to believe. But several elements of what Tousi has stated here appear to check out.

    Those are just a few early highlights of a livestream that’s still ongoing.

    There are already rumors circulating that the regime is flying gold to Russia in advance of Ali Khamenei bugging out to Moscow.

    Things in Iran moving very fast indeed.

    Update: Tousi has a livestream with the teaser “Trump is sending help” scheduled for 2:45 PM…

    Update 2:

  • From that Livestream: “President Trump confirms he will be sending help to the Iranian people.”
  • Iranian people continue to occupy the streets of Tehran in defiance of the regime’s armed threats.
  • “There is a President in the White House who supports them.”
  • “They’re not going back to work. There’s no work. There’s no money. There’s no light. There’s no water.”
  • IDF hitting Hezbollah in Lebanon.
  • U.S.: “Multiple military options.” Including cybersupport.
  • Heh: “Lindsey Graham doing Lindsey Graham things.”
  • “Reza Pahlavi is coming.”
  • Protesters are disarming regime forces on the street.
  • Now the regime is trying to jam Starlink.
  • U.S. forces have been hitting Islamic State targets in Syria. (Not sure how relevant this is to Iran. The Islamic State considers shiia heretical so, unlike Hamas or Hezbollah, are unlikely to help the regime.)
  • Reports of regime forces seizing satellite dishes.

    • Update 3: Embedding the stream:

    More later, probably.

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    Is Islamic Iran Cracking?

    Thursday, January 8th, 2026

    Yesterday I cautioned that the loss of two relatively minor Kurdish cities to anti-regime forces wasn’t a sign that the fall of the regime was imminent. However, today things seem to be getting much spicier, with reports that Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city, was under protestor control.

  • “Protests in Iran’s second largest city, Mashad, have surpassed 1 million participants. Unable to withstand the pressure from the protesters, security forces were forced to leave the city.”
  • “Footage circulating on social media shows demonstrators, mostly young people, chanting slogans against the ruling regime. Protesters say the clerical regime will soon be overthrown and that Reza Pahlavi will return to power.” While he would be an unquestionable improvement over the Mullahs, restoring the Pahlavi monarchy is not a course I would have expected or advised, but there seems to be a surprising amount of sentiment for it online. It’s impossible to say, at this remove, whether this sentiment is widespread among Iranian protestors.
  • “In cities, portraits of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as well as statues of Qasem Soleimani are being burned.”
  • Random protester: “Reza Pahlavi, come to Iran! Bibi Netanyahu, come to Iran!”
  • “A video released in social media shows a standoff between protesters and riot police in Iran’s northeastern Mashhad province as anti-government demonstrations have entered the 12th day. In the video, security units are seen pulling back in the face of large and angry crowds.”
  • “Government forces were also forced to retreat in Borazjan, Bushehr province in southern Iran.”
  • In other places, security forces are still shooting protestors.

    • Livemap snapshot? Sure, why not?

    Hard to tell whether those areas not showing protests are free of them, or whether we just lack information. One reason for that lack? The regime has shut down the Internet across the nation.

    Huge crowds of protesters have been marching through Iran’s capital and other cities, videos show, in what is said to be the largest show of force by opponents of the clerical establishment in years.

    The peaceful demonstrations in Tehran and the second city of Mashhad on Thursday evening, which were not dispersed by security forces, can be seen in footage verified by BBC Persian.

    Later, a monitoring group reported a nationwide internet blackout.

    Protesters can be heard in the footage calling for the overthrow of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the return of Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the late former shah, who had urged his supporters to take to the streets.

    It was the 12th consecutive day of unrest that has been sparked by anger over the collapse of the Iranian currency and has spread to more than 100 cities and towns across all 31 of Iran’s provinces, according to human rights groups.

    The US-based Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) has said that at least 34 protesters and eight security personnel have been killed, and that 2,270 other protesters arrested.

    Norway-based monitor Iran Human Rights (IHR) has said at least 45 protesters, including eight children, have been killed by security forces.

    BBC Persian has confirmed the deaths and identities of 22 people, while Iranian authorities have reported the deaths of six security personnel.

    On Thursday evening, videos posted on social media and verified by BBC Persian showed a large crowd of protesters moving along a major road in Mashhad, in the country’s north-east.

    Chants of “Long live the shah” and “This is the final battle! Pahlavi will return” can be heard. And at one point, several men are seen climbing on an overpass and removing what appears to be surveillance cameras attached to it.

    Another video showed a large crowd of protesters walking along a major road in eastern Tehran, while in the north of the city a small gathering was heard chanting “Long live the shah” and “Death to the dictator” – a reference to Khamenei.

    Protesters were also filmed chanting “Long live the shah” at a main square in the northern city of Babol.

    It came not long after Reza Pahlavi, whose father was overthrown by the 1979 Islamic revolution and lives in Washington DC, had called on Iranians to “take to the streets and, as a united front, shout your demands”.

    Are the mullahs ready to topple? I remain unconvinced, but it does appear more likely than yesterday.

    And we’re creeping closer and closer to President Trump and allies thinking it’s time to give them a nudge.

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