We've been talking about the pressure on the Iranian regime and how close they may be to collapse.
They've been getting pounded by the U.S., and the naval blockade has been crushing them. Their leadership, their military, and their economy are all in shambles. They've been conducting public executions in an attempt to hold the people in check. At this point, the regime is hanging on by bluster and big talk.
The question that's been hanging out there for a bit is: With all the chaos, where is the reaction of the Iranian people?
Well, now there's indication that reaction is coming, and the regime isn't going to enjoy it.
The streets of Iran are near a breaking point over public executions, economic collapse and a war that’s been raging on for more than five months, anti-regime figures in Tehran told The Post.
“A revolution can happen any day now — people want revenge,” a protest leader said, referring to the regime’s brutal January crackdown that President Trump said killed 52,000 people.
An independent journalist active in the Iranian underground said that preparations are already being made for the next uprising, and that activists from all walks of life are determined to make a final, decisive blow against the regime.
The protest leader said they were evaluating what had and hadn't worked in prior actions to maximize their effectiveness.
The journalist said the resistance had hidden makeshift weapons throughout the country: "bricks, rocks, wooden clubs, chairs and tires used to block roads" in preparation for an uprising.
Small groups are working clandestinely to procure firearms to distribute to demonstrators — utilizing guns stored in certain private homes and smuggled from abroad, the protest leader claimed. They did not specify who would be providing these weapons.
“When we went out in January, we were like lambs to the slaughter; the Basij forces were using firepower that you couldn’t believe; the streets were like a graveyard, corpses everywhere, the streets ran red with blood,” she said, unable to contain her rage and grief.
She warned regime forces: “Next time we come out, we’re coming out armed.”
The concern, in addition to the Basij, has been foreign mercenaries, who the regime has deployed to try to keep the people in check. The journalist also said the regime has pulled in young teenagers to patrol neighborhoods.
But even with that, the regime is beginning to crack as 2,000 people flooded out in Isfahan to protest the public executions of two protesters, Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amir Hossein Safari Hosseinabadi, the journalist said.
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They're getting to that "What do I have to lose?" point. They're being crushed by inflation and the inability to buy basic needs. The journalist said there were electricity and water shortages in the southern regions, which were further angering people.
“Even middle-class people are skipping one or two meals a day, there’s food on the shelves at grocery stores, but nobody can afford it,” he said. [....[
“We know the stakes, either the regime goes, or we do,” the protest leader said.
Godspeed.
Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.
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