Author: Kirollos Abdalla

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By Kirollos Abdalla — Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei emerged from his bunker like a gopher in Eastern Iran, disappeared again and is now hiding in a supposedly vast network of tunnels around Tehran, much like the tunnel system of Hamas in Gaza. The Islamist Regime is banking that running around under ground will help Khamenei elude the U.S.’s bunker-buster bombs and Tomahawk missiles that have been amassed within striking distance in support of the uprising that Iran decided to brutally suppress with an estimated 30,000 killings. At the same time, President Trump has been blurting out about the U.S. new…

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By Kirollos Abdala — Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has gone into deep hiding (not in his bunker). Russians have been told to evacuate. Jets were reported flying overhead of Tehran and other Iranian cities, presumably in defense against imminent attack. A senior Iranian diplomat has quit the regime in Switzerland and applied for asylum. Major airlines have canceled flights into Iran, Israel, Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia. The tinderbox of the Middle East is about to go up in flames. As of Friday, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, sailing straight from the South China Sea, arrived to striking distance.…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — After Iran’s French Revolution comes Nuremberg trials, says Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. “Ali Khamenei, you are an anti-Iranian criminal,” Pahlavi said from exile. “You have neither honor nor humanity. Your hands are stained with the blood of tens of thousands of Iranians. Your regime and all of your mercenaries will be held accountable. Every drop of blood you have spilled, we will not forgive.” As an aircraft carrier strike group approaches Iran and people speculate if President Trump will actually make good on his pledge “help is on its way,” the Iranian Counter-Revolution refuses to back…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — At the vortex of Iran’s implacable determination to utterly destroy Israel and kill Jews is one man: Mehdi Taeb, a hardline theologian who says the Shi’ite’s 12th imam won’t return until Israel is completely wiped out. “Observers must remove the obstacles to the emergence of the Imam of the Age, the most important of which is the existence of the usurper regime of Israel,” the 61-year-old cleric is quoted in a Middle East Institute report in 2022. As such, Taeb can be said to be the cause of the Gaza conflagration, the Houthi hostility and the…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — As of Day 15, an estimated 2,000 Iranians have been killed by troops loyal to the regime who are shooting indiscriminately into the surging crowds of the uprising. Whereas in the past, normally, that would be enough to tamp down protests, the people are not backing down. It’s over for the regime. Freedom fighters (as Iranians are now being called) are hunting down Iranian Guard Revolutionary Corps leaders in their homes and assassinating them. Eliminated: Reportedly 100s of leaders have been eliminated, per Tousi, who monitors Iran’s state T.V. “They lost the whole leadership last summer…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — In a last ditch effort to stave off the inevitable overthrow, the Islamic regime in Iran broadcast Tucker Carlson — yes, formerly conservative Tucker Carlson! — on its national TV. Tucker Carlson once was an anchor on Fox News, where he beat CNN and MSNBC, but since going it alone, he gets 1-3M views per podcast. He built his reputation on commonsense no-nonsense conservative commentary but of late has taken a bizarre turn, speaking favorably of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and soft-balling Nick Fuentes. He was famous for waking up America to the dangers of Islam,…

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By Kirollos Abadalla — The West kind of chose Ruhollah Khomeini. It was a bad choice, the kind that Leftist make over and over and over. Khomeini was exiled to France in 1978, where journalists interviewed him and gave him platform. They liked his mystique — a moral, anti-tyranny figure. His anti-Western sentiment resonated with the Lefties’ Marxist tendencies, which saw capitalism as the root of all evil. When Khomeini flew back to Iran on Feb. 1, 1979, it was Lefty President Jimmy Carter who warned the Shah of Iran NOT to arrest him. That was a bad choice. Khomeini…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has reportedly given the order to shoot to kill protesters, but it appears the majority of security forces are not carrying out the order. Only 36 lives have been taken. Meanwhile, the people have effectively taken over the cities of Abdanan, Malekshahi, Torbat-e Heydarieh and Mashhad. Elsewhere, they are thronging Tehran, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Ilam, Qom, Yazd, Zanjan, Shahrekord, Babol, Marvdasht, Borujerd and some 120 cities nationwide. Up until the uprising ignited 11 days ago, Crown Prince in exile Reza Pahlavi had registered 75,000 defectors from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. But since…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — At every point along the (now) 10 days of uprising in Iran, international observers have predicted cynically what inevitably happens with demonstrations: a quick and deadly crackdown. But now the unthinkable: For the first time in the history of the iron-fisted regime, the police have laid down their weapons and joined the people. “A huge number of police officers have started to stand down and put down their weapons and join the revolution,” reports Mayhar Tousi, a UK journalist with extensive contacts in Iran. “We’ve also had a number of IRGC bases, Islamic buildings and city…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — The Iranian protesters flooding streets have been energized by Trump’s Friday night ouster of Dictator Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. “What happened this morning in Venezuela has massively re-energized the movement in Iran,” says Iranian-UK reporter Mahyar Tousi. “People realize, Hmm, if we continue to be out there, then we can send a fighters, those who are still fighting. If people get scared and go home, then it will be difficult to expect the Americans to help.” Day 7 of the uprising against the hated Islamist regime of Iran saw protesters burning posters of Supreme Leader Ali…

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