Iran burns as Khamenei reaches for proxies

Iran burns as Khamenei reaches for proxies

At a time of mounting protests and a deepening economic crisis, Iran's regime is preparing for the possibility of an attack. Senior officials have been dispatched to coordinate positions with the regime's terrorist organizations across the Middle East. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is projecting above all a sense of pressure. In a statement this week, Khamenei flatly rejected messages suggesting that "no one wants to fight Iran," dismiss…

A Cornered Supreme Leader and the Collapse of Fear in Iran

Khamenei’s latest threats betray panic as nationwide uprising shatters the regime’s last illusion of control Iran regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, appeared once again before a carefully selected audience of battered Basij loyalists, attempting—like so many times before—to bury an undeniable reality under hollow rhetoric: the depth of national hatred toward the theocratic dictatorship ruling Iran. Trapped in the rising fury of an exhausted …