Eoghan Harris.
After the destruction of the Syrian administration, Israel was drunk on triumph. With that confidence, they proceeded to escalate into the 12-day war with Iran, an ill-conceived attempt to take down the only remaining state in the region with an anti-Zionist foreign policy. Their humiliation in failing to handle Iranian missile systems caused severe damage to their deterrence capability.
Soon after the 12-day war, Israel prepared for their next attack on Iran: an asymmetrical attack. Mossad assets started to smuggle thousands of pieces of Starlink hardware into Iran for secure communication. The Iranian authorities noted this and proceeded to import signal mixers and pieces of military-grade jamming technology from China.
The operation started with the manipulation of Iranian currency through intermediaries in Iraqi Kurdistan, Afghanistan, and the UAE. Iranian currency suddenly plummeted. Shopkeepers from the Bazaar in Tehran began to protest the difficulties they were facing. Some other protesters joined them to highlight corruption. At this point, the Iranian government showed restraint. The police force stepped back; no arrests were made, no violence occurred, and the government engaged with protesters’ legitimate demands.
Without delay, highly trained CIA- and Mossad-supported insurgents were activated in Iran. Armed with AK-47s, handguns, flamethrowers, machetes, and swords, they burned hundreds of police stations, mosques, Armenian churches, ATMs, bus stations, schools, civilian and government homes, gas stations, ambulances, and public transport.
This was not a covert operation, but an overt operation, as Mike Pompeo clearly stated on X. Most Iranians who had been initially protesting the economic conditions went home. Mossad assets and small groups of protesters remained. The Iranian authorities shut off the Internet to the whole country, activated Chinese technology to disorient the Starlink signals that agents were receiving, and started to fight back.
After three days of intense fighting, the Iranian government turned on the Internet and called a counter-demonstration. In Tehran alone, 2.3 million Iranians took to the streets in support of their sovereignty. This was the second regime-change operation defeated in less than a year.
Violence in Iran has ceased, yet the propaganda campaign in Europe, which was funded to the tune of over a billion euros by Mossad, continues. Israel elevated Reza Pahlavi as a legitimate leader. They wanted to forcefully take down the Islamic Republic, which gained legitimacy in the March 1979 referendum, installing the monarchy, which had previously looted resources for the West and terrorised the people with its British-sponsored intelligence service, SAVAK.
The alternative face of a “New Iran” in Western media is monarch Reza Pahlavi, who openly stated that “Free Iran” would immediately recognise Israel, end Iran’s nuclear programme, and end Iran’s support for the Palestinian resistance. Pahlavi, however, has zero credibility in Iranian society.
After the 12-day war, Iran issued a warning that any country that let the United States or Israel target their country would be a legitimate target for Iran. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar refused to let them use their airspace to carry out strikes on Iran. Their operation failed, but the Zionists are desperate for regime change in Iran, and it is for this reason that they want to start a conventional war again.
During the three days of violence, Trump threatened 25% tariffs on any country that traded with Iran. India, previously a major Western ally, refused to cease buying oil from Iran, just as they had done with Russia months earlier. Clearly, this policy of economically isolating the Islamic Republic is backfiring.
The Western liberal-left supported this operation, despite the anti-imperialist awakening in the wake of the Gaza genocide. They did so under the pretence of painting this violent operation as a legitimate uprising and claiming to support neither the Ayatollah nor the Shah. Many parties demonstrated with propaganda from the NED-funded and New York-based Centre for Human Rights in Iran.
Many parties aligned with the Tudeh Party’s position in calling for a general strike. The Tudeh Party are, in reality, a handful of people living in Stockholm who have not lived in Iran for decades and have no popular support inside the country. Calling for a general strike in parallel with a violent regime-change operation by Israel and Western powers is not a neutral position. It is siding with these powers. The Tudeh Party is irrelevant, yet Western leftists use their position as a mask for their own pro-imperialist tendencies, which they have always been consistent with.