Author: Kirollos Abdalla

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Kirollos Abdalla — Iranians are storming police stations across the country, as cops, holed up inside, fire upon the unarmed civilians in emerging evidence that the regime is in its final days. What has kept Iranians from overthrowing the repressive government before boils down to a four-letter word: guns. Only the authorities have guns. What usually happens when the people rise up is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps cracks down with a massacre and people go home afraid. This time is different. With its military capabilities demolished after Israel air raids in June AND with no water and collapsed…

By Kirollos Abdalla — On the fifth day of the uprising, Iranians seized control of police stations and torched an Islamic center — where militants are indoctrinated, trained and briefed — as part of massive demonstrations catalyzed by economic woes, lack of water and the weakening of the regime after its humiliating drubbing in the war against Israel in June. Is this the end of the Islamist overlords who have ruled with an iron grip since the Iranian Revolution of 1979? In 2022–’23, protests spread across 31 provinces and lasted for 100 days when Mahsa Amini, was arrested — for…

By Kirollos Abdalla — Faced with shortages of water, a collapsed economy and years of stifling repression, Iranians have risen up in uncountable numbers and overrun government offices and buildings in a bid to oust the Islamist occupiers who have called themselves the legitimate rulers of the historical land of Persia. “The Islamic Republic security forces have lost total control of the major cities over the last few hours,” says Mayhar Tousi, a UK newsman immigrant from Iran who keeps close tabs on the country. “The anti-Islamic revolutionaries are completely overrunning the security. A lot of them have now retreated……

By Kirollos Abdalla — At great peril of life or liberty, protesters marched en masse through Tehran, calling for the overthrow of the Islamic occupiers, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has not be able to muster forces to quell the demonstrations. Videos released from Iran show public expressing outrage that the government has spent its money fighting a war against Israel and America while letting its citizenry go to pot — with massive strikes in most industries, a 300% inflation rate, an insanely devalued currency and water shortages in Tehran. “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, we are all…

By Kirollos Abadalla — TWO DAYS after Gaza attacked Israel and killed 1,200 civilians, outraged protesters in Sydney rallied at the Opera House, shouting (as was widely heard) “Gas the Jews!” Now — again in Sydney — a father-son team shot and killed 15 Jews at Bondi Beach (wounding 40 or so others) at a Channukah by the Sea event. What is there so much Jew-hating in Sydney? It happens to be the largest Muslim population by percentage (6.3% or 329,566 people by the 2021 census) of Australia. And nowadays anyone can get radicalized anywhere via the internet. But there’s…

By Kirollos Abdalla — A Pakistani pastor was gunned down twice, succumbing to his wounds the second time on Dec. 6. Pastor Kamran Salamat, 45, was first shot months ago in Rawalpindi, next to the capitol city of Islamabad. He was still on crutches when he relocated to Gujranwala to get out of the danger zone — or so he thought. But the extremists who hated him in a dispute over church’s land in Rawalpindi apparently tracked him down 135 miles away in Gujranwala. He thought he was safe because in Gujranwala, the Christian community is bigger. The second attack…