Iran Confirms at Least 5,000 Dead in Protest Crackdown
An unnamed Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday that at least 5,000 people were killed during the regime crackdown on protests last week.

An unnamed Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday that at least 5,000 people were killed during the regime crackdown on protests last week.

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a high-ranking member of the Iranian theocracy who sits on several of its highest governing bodies, on Friday demanded the execution of protesters and made threats against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Worldwide network monitors said Iran was plunged into a nationwide Internet blackout on Thursday, an ominous sign that the panicked regime is preparing to use greater violence to suppress protests that have entered their second week.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in televised remarks on Friday that President Donald Trump would soon be “brought down” by his “arrogance,” even as massive protests against Khamenei and his brutal terrorist regime were raging across Iran.

Protests against the Iranian theocracy spread to most of Iran’s 31 provinces as of Tuesday, including cities that have long been seen as firmly loyal to the ayatollah.

The Iranian regime — reeling from mass protests that could be the most severe threat to the tyranny of the ayatollahs since the 1979 Islamic revolution — denounced President Donald Trump’s arrest of Venezuelan narco-terrorist dictator Nicolas Maduro in the harshest terms, and demanded United Nations intervention on Maduro’s behalf.

Huge protests spread through several Iranian cities on Tuesday after the national currency, the rial, collapsed to a record low.

The Iranian regime held massive rallies in over 900 cities on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in 1979 – an event known as the “National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Iranian regime newspaper Islamic Republic described the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, as “a mistake that cost Iran dearly.”

The family of Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish woman whose death at the hands of Iran’s thuggish “morality police” drew worldwide condemnation and touched off the biggest uprising against the regime to date, said on Tuesday that the regime is preventing them from holding a memorial to mark the third anniversary of her passing.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Thursday spearheaded a congressional letter to President Donald Trump urging him to block Iranian regime officials from entering the United States for the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York, warning, “They are criminals. They support terrorism. They sow hatred and instability across the Middle East.”

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a direct threat to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Monday, warning the dictator to “look up at the sky and listen carefully to every buzz” when he emerges from his bunker, after Tehran published an assassination hit list targeting top Israeli officials.

Leading Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami called for the execution of President Donald Trump in a sermon on Friday.

Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made on Saturday his first public appearance since Iran’s defeat in the 12-Day War.

Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim-Safavi, senior military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday claimed Iran was capable of far more devastating retaliatory strikes against the U.S. and Israel than it has been able to launch thus far, and Iran is ready to attack targets beyond the Middle East if necessary.

Senior Shiite Muslim clerics in Iran have issued religious edicts, or fatwas, condemning President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel’s first round of airstrikes, in what the Israeli government is describing as an extended campaign to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, killed several top Iranian military officers and nuclear scientists.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday pledged to give high-level nuclear talks with the United States this weekend a “genuine chance” to succeed. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the talks would take place on Saturday in Oman.

Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif resigned on Sunday evening, strongly implying in his resignation letter that he was forced out by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni and other theocratic hardliners.

Former Iranian parliamentarian Mohammad-Javad Larijani told the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) on Tuesday that Iran refuses to hold talks with the Trump administration because it fears the U.S. would use economic leverage to control Tehran, as it is allegedly doing with Ukraine.

Massive crowds assembled on the outskirts of Beirut on Sunday for the delayed funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and political party, who was killed in September by an Israeli airstrike after his forces attacked Israel.

A new protest movement is gathering strength in Iran, driven by public outrage over the death of 19-year-old Amir Mohammad Khaleghi, an undergraduate business student at the University of Tehran who was robbed and killed near the dormitory last week.

Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of the National Security Committee in the Iranian parliament, said on Wednesday that some of his fellow lawmakers are urging the Iranian regime to rapidly develop nuclear weapons to halt President Donald Trump’s agenda for the Middle East.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday claimed President Donald Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” against Iran’s nuclear ambitions was a “failure” during Trump’s first term, and would fare no better during his second.

The chilling video renews concerns about the spread of various forms of Islamic extremism within the U.S.

The Iranian theocracy on Thursday commemorated the fifth anniversary of the death of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the chief terrorist mastermind of the world’s worst state sponsors of terrorism.

The year 2024 was not a good one for Iran, which saw much of its proxy army across the Middle East decimated by Israel, its puppet dictator Bashar Assad ousted in Syria, and its old enemy Donald Trump return to the White House.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged Syrians on Sunday to rise up against the insurgents who toppled Tehran’s puppet dictator, Bashar Assad. Khamenei claimed the rebel assault that ended five decades of rule by the Assad dynasty was organized and directed by the United States and Israel.

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tehran is planning to “definitely respond” to an Israeli counterattack.

Israeli media reported on Sunday that the Biden administration has offered Israel a “compensation package” in exchange for refraining from attacks on a list of specific targets in Iran.

Tehran held a “symbolic” funeral with a large crowd on Friday for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike last week, ending three decades of terrorist plotting and authoritarian rule.

A memorial service for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Dearborn, Michigan, featured praise for prominent terror figures as well as denunciations of the United States’ “terrorism.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Thursday that Iran has defied calls from the international community by increasing its already prodigious stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium, and by refusing to give top IAEA inspectors access to its nuclear sites.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hinted on Tuesday that he could be open to resuming limited nuclear negotiations with Iran’s great “enemy,” the United States.

Nigerian Shiite militants with close ties to the government of Iran allegedly killed at least two police officers in Abuja.

Israel is defending both Western civilization and Judeo-Christian values, according to former Trump administration U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who slammed current Western leaders, and the Biden administration in particular, accusing them of being “feckless” in their handling of Iranian threats.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and military leaders locked arms with Masoud Pezeshkian, the ostensibly “reformist” president-elect.

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian defeated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s protege Saeed Jalili on Friday to become Iran’s next president.

Iranians who boycotted the first round of their sham election have second thoughts after the moderate candidate did better than expected.

Iran’s “moderate” reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, once dismissed as a dark horse with little chance of winning the emergency election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, managed to become the frontrunner by about a million votes when the results were announced on Saturday. Pezeshkian could not get past the 50 percent threshold to win outright, so he will face hardliner Saeed Jalili in a runoff election on July 5.
