Iran teeters

By Abigail Aguilar —

Israel’s and the United State’s air force delivered a smackdown to Iran, but the deathblow to the 46-year iron grip rule of the regime appears now to be coming from lack of water.

“After 46 years of neglect and just incompetence, the regime has left the majority of the country, especially the capital of Tehran, without water,” says Iranian-American journalist Karmel Melamed. “The aquifers are basically empty. They haven’t invested in any of the water infrastructure. There’s been no effort to recycle, reclaim any kind of water. They’ve let the whole system deteriorate for the last 26 years. People don’t have water.”

Plenty of money for terror, nothing for basic services like water. Since January, IRGC’s Quds Force has funneled an estimated $1B to Hezbollah to harass Israel.

“We’re seeing the regime defiantly sending it the country’s wealth, millions and billions of dollars to Hezbollah,” Melamed says. “Well, that infuriates the people of Iran.”

Consequently, support from the military and police is crumbling. Officers are posting on X, Telegram and Instagram their opposition to the regime and their support of the people of Iran or of the king in exile. This week, military officers videoed themselves holding the old Iranian flag from before the IRGC overthrow.

“The security apparatus are just shaking their heads and they’re saying We’ve had enough of this,” Melamed says.

The ayatollah and ruling crew were humiliated by Israel’s and the U.S.’s summer air strikes that (reportedly) wiped out Iran’s developing nuclear capabilities. “Their image was devastated with the people of Iran and in the Middle East,” Melamed says. “They’re no longer seen as this omnipotent great power. The regime suffered militarily and psychologically.”

Since the beginning of the year, Iran has executed 1,000 of its own citizens, trying to silence the growing outrage.

Tousi TV showed footage of protest in which masses of people chanted “Death to Palestine!” (per translation). The reason is because the Iranian people do NOT see Israel as an oppressor. The resent that their government spends on proxy war to support Hamas instead of taking care of its citizens in Iran.

Exiled in France, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deposed shah, has offered to oversee the transition government for Iran to set up a democracy.

Sources: CBN, Tousi TV, others.