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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

The public now demands regime change, financial resources are gone and support outside the country has collapsed, writes Mojtaba Dehghani.

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The other day, I posted info on the Islamic Republic's regime looting the government and secreting gold out of the country:

Iran Regime Apparently Looting & Exporting National Treasury - drudge.com
This author lays out his reasons why the protests are in a whole different category this time, and that the regime will fall this time.

Other reports say that the IRGC (Revolutionary Guard) gunned down at least 12,000 people on Monday and Tuesday on direct orders of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, including in the city where he grew up.

Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue

Information trickling out of Iran on Tuesday suggests that a crackdown by authorities to end more than two weeks of widespread anti-government protests has likely been far more deadly than activists outside the country have reported. With phone lines opening back up for calls from inside the Islamic Republic, two sources, including one inside Iran, told CBS News on Tuesday that at least 12,000, and possibly as many as 20,000 people have been killed.

www.cbsnews.com

#1 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-01-13 07:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#1 Pedodent Vladimir Netanyahu Trumpf and his minions are taking notes.

#2 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-13 07:46 PM | Reply

Why I think the Islamic Republic cannot survive this uprising

www.independent.co.uk

#3 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-01-13 07:46 PM | Reply

Great thread topic, Americanunity.

Thank you for posting this.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-13 07:52 PM | Reply

Has Lewzer declared himself Supreme Leader yet or does he have to bomb something first?

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-01-13 08:09 PM | Reply

The public is against Islamic regime because its oppressive.

There's not public demonstration against the elites bankrupting the country, these people want the end of tyranny.

#3 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY A
This is like coming in the 9th inning with 2outs and 2 strikes of a baseball game, and rooting for the winning team.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-13 08:12 PM | Reply

12,000 sounds like a LOT.

PROOF? Evidence of any Kind?

Is this for Real?

Will Trump start a War on Hearsay?

Or is it Fabricated?

Israel is One Twicky Rabbit.

Iran is positively Open and Honest by Comparison on every level.

My Opinion; Not Credible, until Proof is Produced.

They have Lied too many times to be Believed without Solid Evidence and maybe Not then.

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-13 08:31 PM | Reply

40% of Iranians are secular today thanks to being ruled by fundamentalists.

And the Iranians hate the Palestinians and their government support for terror.

Trump won't pass up this opportunity to intervene.

#8 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2026-01-13 11:09 PM | Reply

Trump won't pass up this opportunity to intervene.

He'll call it "Lewzer Spring".

#9 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-01-13 11:31 PM | Reply

I'll believe it when I see it

#10 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-01-14 06:17 AM | Reply

How does the fall of this theocracy benefit the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer?

*** Poof! ***

  • All of a sudden Americans are going to enjoy world class universal healthcare like the residents of Germany, Israel, Canada, Australia, Denmark, or Taiwan?

  • The fall of the ayatollahs will return to the US economy the billions of dollars siphoned off by the mega-oligarchs last year?

  • Regime change will un-do the catastrophic damage done to us by the Republican Party's "Big Beautiful Bill?"

  • Instability and a potential refugee crisis in Iran will help get Dummkopf Trumpf impeached and imprisoned? (The TCF made an astonishing $3.4bn during his two terms in the White House so far.)

  • Ousting the mullahs and imams in Iran will get rid of the vicious ICE Sturmabteilung that is plaguing Americans?

    How the heck does the fall of the Iranian theocracy benefit the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer struggling to make ends meet in Minnesota, Akron, NYC, Portland, Boston, Kansas City, Berkeley, Pittsburgh, Austin, Reno, or Savannah?



  • #11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-14 07:52 AM | Reply

    Why The Islamic Republic Will Fall This Time

    HA!

    #12 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-14 07:54 AM | Reply

    Who gets all the uranium if the regime falls?

    And more importantly, who will become Israel's new bogeyman?

    #13 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-14 09:02 AM | Reply

    Who gets all the uranium if the regime falls?

    And more importantly, who will become Israel's new bogeyman?

    #13 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-14 09:02 AM | Reply | Flag: Just a Stab in the Dark. Ouch!

    Answer One: i.ebayimg.com

    Answer Two: i.ytimg.com

    Both answers would also please Crown Prince Muhammad Bone Saws (MBS).

    #14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-14 09:22 AM | Reply

    When the Islamic Republic falls, Donald Trump will be President of Iran.

    #15 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-14 09:29 AM | Reply

    *** Republicans Love War ***

    Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK): "I would support removing the regime that's killing their own people."

    So you're in favor of taking out the Iranian regime?

    "I am at this point."

    Moments later, Mullin says, "We're not into regime change. This isn't the Arab Spring..."

    But you just said you are for regime change?

    Mullin: "No, I said I'm for the strikes."

    But you said before that you're for taking out the regime?"

    ~snip~

    "I would support removing the regime that's killing their own people."

    Like Dummkopf Trumpf, Benjamin Netanyahu, or Vladimir Putin?

    Link: Republican Party Doubletalk


    #16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-14 09:34 AM | Reply

    I would support removing the regime that's killing their own people."

    Ms. Good approves.

    #17 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-14 09:40 AM | Reply

    When the Islamic Republic falls, Donald Trump will be President of Iran.

    #15 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-14 09:29 AM | Reply | Flag: "Quip of the Week, Sailor!"


    #18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-14 09:47 AM | Reply

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