Iran commentary by top observers

[Barbara]

Overview of last 6-7 months in Syria - a short thread but worthwhile reading. Maybe not 100% accurate but mostly a useful summary

I'm not sure who the author is, but his name sounds Armenian.

https://x.com/KevorkAlmassian/status/19 ... 5858608268

[Barbara]

Sayed M Marandi post today confirming the looming threat of a false flag :

"Beware of a Zionist/neocon false flag operation.

They claim to have destroyed Iran's nuclear program, so now they need another excuse for war, aggression, and bloodshed."

We should pray much that neither this nor other negative scenarios occur, as just one false flag is enough to cause destabilization and ruin here in the U.S. Imagine the widespread panic, mobilization of various forces to unjustly attack a country minding its own business which is NO THREAT to the United States.

All this garbage about 'sleeper cells' is sheer lies calculated to blame any situation here on that same country. There are zero agents from that country here : that's the most blatant falsehood but has been used over and over for decades now.

[Barbara]

Important news of the puppet al-Sharaa [Jolani - whose very nom de guerre means from the Golan Heights] :
his govt is ready to completely surrender the Golan Heights to Is not real in return for MERE recognition by is not real of the new Syrian regime !
Appalling !

Bad as Bashar Assad was, he had political principles. He would NEVER have surrendered claim to the Golan, which was part of Syria but annexed by is not real after the 1967 war. Nor would he have disbanded all Palestinian organizations the way that al-Sharaa ordered IMMEDIATELY upon coming to power last December.

Now it's clear WHY he did that : he was ordered to do so by his western overseers. This indeed turned out to be one of the preconditions set by the US and Is not real for "letting" Syria join the noxious "Abraham Accords".

Terrible, too, is that while many feared a radical Islamic govt in Syria under al-Sharaa, it's turning out the opposite.

Now the govt is favoring homosexuals ! They had a monument lit up in the revolting rainbow colors for the month of June... that's UNHEARD of in the conservative Arab world.

Where, by the way, in contrast, Tel Aviv is said to be 'the most homosexual city in the world'

Guess who is behind the wheel of the new Damascus govt ?

[Barbara]

A man named Winston wrote after the latest Professor Marandi interview ONE SENTENCE which sums up EVERYTHING !

"Incredible that I am an American and trust Professor Mirandi more than anyone in my own government."

Here is the video with the same nice young Iranian man, Nima Alkhorshid [last name means something about the sun]

[Barbara]

I'm glad to see that many Orthodox are on this wavelength. The author is [probably ?] Orthodox, but for sure the woman who posted this, KatherineK on twitter, is.

He wrote :

"Why the West Knows It Can’t Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program — but the war was aiming to change the ruling system.

The CIA and Mossad never actually intend to destroy Iran’s nuclear or missile programs — because they know they can’t. The deeper truth is this: the real target was the ruling system itself, and that effort has failed.

Rafael Grossi, head of the iaea, revealed he visited nuclear facilities 800 meters underground. No bomb in the U.S. arsenal can reach that depth — not even the GBU-57 bunker buster used by B-2 bombers, which barely penetrates 50–60 meters. The Pentagon wouldn’t bomb Esfahan because it knew the attack would fail. The damage to Fordow, at 100 meters deep, is very uncertain and the US knew it.

Iran’s nuclear infrastructure was designed with this in mind. Centrifuges are not vertically stacked like dominoes. They’re distributed, hardened, and concealed. Enriched uranium has been relocated across multiple undisclosed sites. After the strikes, the West isn’t even sure what was damaged and what survived.

But the military campaign was only a small part of the plan.

For twelve days, the U.S. and Israel launched a full-spectrum regime-change operation. Intelligence networks, spies and collaborators, embedded over decades — dormant cells, saboteurs, assassins, drone teams — were activated. Assassination plots, confusion campaigns, and targeted destabilisation efforts were unleashed across Iran.

This wasn’t covert — it was orchestrated in plain view. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted the Iranian crown prince, while media platforms in London and Washington amplified opposition figures. A coordinated information war was waged to fracture public trust, deepen unrest, and break the system from within.

It failed.

Despite the noise, the Islamic Republic withstood it. The leadership structure held firm. The nuclear program wasn’t crippled. The missile infrastructure remains intact. And the West, after unleashing decades of espionage and psychological warfare, was left with almost nothing to show.

That’s why the CIA and Mossad don’t talk seriously about “destroying” Iran’s nuclear capacity anymore. Not because they don’t want to — but because they know they can’t. And their attempt to break the system from within has only proven just how durable that system really is.
-Elijah J Magnier

Comments :

The very name of their operation "Rising Lion" was intended to symbolize replace the lion of shah in Iranian flag

This is not Libya or Iraq .
They can never succeed in their malicious tactics.
Iran People have strong will power they will never accept the slavery of any foreign power

Iran is not any Arab nation that America had bombed at the behest of Israel and got away with.
Iran is unique and it will prevail"

[Barbara]

Sayed M Marandi explains below the idiotic nature of the Zio nist-backed American claims of "iranian sleeper cells" -

I would add that the entire US govt is an is not reali "sleeper cell" - what are they talking about ?
They are merely trying to distract from the rising awareness of the thorough takeover of the US govt. by Is not real and affiliated organizations such as AIPAC, the Is not reali lobby in the U.S>

The fact is that Iran has NOTHING at all - no agents of any sort - set up in the US.

Nor would it conduct such shady operations.

But the average American does NOT know this, because of the unrelenting propaganda hammered in for nearly 50 YEARS since the start of the Islamic Republic in 1979.

He is saying that in fact, the situation is the EXACT REVERSE : it's the West, mainly the U.S.+Is not real, which has established sleeper cells of the organizations he lists here, on IRANIAN SOIL to conduct assassinations and create general ter r or.

The MEK or MKO is a Marxist-Islamic group led by a woman, Maryam Rajavi, widow of the former leader, Massoud Rajavi. It is a true ter r or is t organization. Kicked out of most of its havens, it is currently based in Albania. [Just found a recent article about this shameless cult, see next post]

As usual, whatever the Western media says, assume the truth will be the OPPOSITE !

"The legacy media claims that Iran has sleeper cells across the West, yet - strangely enough - it’s Iranian graveyards that are filled with victims of Western-backed terror: Saddam Hussein, the MEK cult, monarchists, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Israeli regime."


https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1944296850703442182

[Barbara]

Surprisingly, the neocon American Enterprise Institute wrote off the MKO as useless for American and Is not reali intelligence agencies to use to harm their perceived enemy, the Iranian govt.

Actually, the ENTIRE anti-Iran campaign is nothing but a lot of hype from the West. It's due somewhat to the fact that Iran stands up for the Palestinians who are Is not real's long-time foe.
As well as a wish on the part of the West to have a weak puppet at the helm in Teheran who do THEIR bidding without hesitation. Like the so-called "presidents" of Afghanistan under the 20 YEAR occupation by the US and Nato countries.

The Islamic Republic govt is stubbornly resistant to being anyone's proxy, let alone turning over the keys of the fabled oil-rich country to Western countries and their aggressive corporations who would mercilessly siphon off the West Asian country's resources, not stopping til everything ran dry.

Many American Policymakers Who Engage the Group Do So for Money, but Bear No Special Fealty to the Mojahedin

"There was always something fishy about the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization. While the group’s English-speaking interlocutors describe it as popular and influential, the organization raises a number of red flags: It operates like a cult, isolating its members from the outside world. Its finances are opaque; it can pay millions and perhaps even tens of millions of dollars annually in honoraria, first-class airfare, and luxury hotels for retired American and European officials willing to endorse it, but its tax returns show no indication of the origin of its money.

Among Iranians inside Iran, support for the Mojahedin-e Khalq is negligible for three reasons:

First, Iranians struggling to throw off the yoke of clerical dictatorship resent that the group supported Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution.

Second, Iranians are patriotic; the Mojahedin is not. The group’s leaders and its rank-and-file value power over country, which is why they embraced Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War.

Privately, many American policymakers who engage the group acknowledge they do it for the money, but bear no special fealty to the Mojahedin. When regime change comes to Iran, they say, either the Mojahedin-e Khalq will prove its claims or they will not; either way, American officials will follow Iranians’ lead, not some exiled group. The less cynical, however, point to the group’s intelligence revelations as evidence they infiltrate Iran.

While it’s true the Mojahedin or its various front groups, like the National Council of Resistance of Iran, have been the first to reveal certain nuclear sites publicly to news organizations like CNN, Mojahedin declarations that these prove Mojahedin-e Khalq claims about its power and influence are false for a simple reason: The group’s claims often turn out to be demonstrably false. In 2000, for example, the group provided a defector to CBS’ “60 Minutes,” whom the Mojahedin identified as Ahmad Behbahani, the Iranian regime’s counterterror chief. The problem was that the man whom they “revealed” as Behbahani was the wrong height. Either the Mojahedin was purposely lying or it did not know.

The group also lied with a release suggesting a radiation leak at Isfahan in 2012, and repackaged earlier public reports about Iranian involvement in Syria as fresh intelligence.

Again, the Mojahedin-e Khalq has never explained why it might get such high-profile episodes wrong. After all, while the Central Intelligence Agency might err when it draws conclusions from disparate points about an opaque society, the Mojahedin-e Khalq claims to source its information to moles it infiltrated who are in the know.

A far better explanation for the inconsistency surrounding Mojahedin-e Khalq revelations is that the group has always been a cut-out. Israeli and Saudi intelligence could, in theory, use the group to launder intelligence and remove the fingerprints of its original source. In hindsight, this appears more likely given how the 12-day war between Israel and Iran exposed just how deeply Israeli intelligence had penetrated the Islamic Republic over decades.

Whereas once Israel sought to remove its fingerprints from operations in Iran—it could not trust CNN or the New York Times not to go chattering back to their regime contacts in Tehran—the open warfare between Jerusalem and Tehran means that Israeli officials no longer need to pretend nor fear that exposure of their penetration could spark open war.

In some ways, the Mojahedin-e Khalq now follows the path hewn by various front groups like the Christian Peace Conference, a Soviet front group founded during the Cold War. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Christian Peace Conference faded away.

With the Mojahedin-e Khalq no longer serving any purpose for foreign intelligence services, the question is whether the Mojahedin-e Khalq will follow the same trajectory into oblivion. At best, the Mojahedin-e Khalq may end up like the Polisario Front, an Algerian and Cuban creation whose leaders now wither away into irrelevance in refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria.

With Jerusalem more prone to trumpet its own successes, it is understandable why the Mojahedin-e Khalq leaders are flailing about with ever greater claims.

The real question, however, is no longer the Mojahedin-e Khalq’s relevance; the group’s irrelevance is plain to see.

Rather, it is whether all those who accepted Mojahedin-e Khalq cash understood they were part of an elaborate and likely foreign information operation and whether they will pay any consequences for their greed."

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/irans-mojahe ... t-disband/

NOT ONLY Americans thought to wield influence were bribed by the Mojahedin i Khalq.

Also well-connected Europeans succumbed to the same avarice.

Germans, French, Croatians and plenty of other figures, both men and women, were roped in this way by the MKO. They were invited to MKO conferences and were requested to endorse the group, plus denounce the Islamic Republic govt.

In return, these European dupes were paid in the neighborhood of $10,000 per appearance, sometimes less. It was obviously a short-cut to paying off that new Lamborghini...