He gives a very different picture showing video uploaded via StarLink. From his account, the Iranian regime is close to collapse and the crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, is expected to return to Iran soon. The latest is that pro-Pahlavi demonstrators are executing hundreds of senior IRGC officers and Israel's Mossad is openly helping them. Iranian military has been reluctant to kill their own people, so the IRGC has shipped in mercenaries from Iraq and Syria to kill for them. Tousi says about 2000 demonstrators have been killed, and claims to have seen video from the hospitals confirming this, though he won't show that video he says, because he doesn't want to discourage the protestors.
He also says that most everything has been shut down - the Internet, phone, power, ATM's, and Pahlavi has called for a complete shutdown of all shops and for all Iranians to be in the streets.
It's obviously hard to tell from isolated videos how widespread the uprising is - or how pro-Pahlavi it is - but if Tousi is accurate, I don't expect the Iranian regime to last long - perhaps even just days.
Trump clearly doesn't plan to send in troops, but has threatened the IRGC, and may do air attacks, but that is difficult to do when the situation is so fluid. I presume he is thwarting the IRGC in other ways, like hindering their communications.
Anyway, I'm expecting this to either get very bloody, or to have a full collapse soon.
Hi Dean. Well, everything I've heard contradicts what you wrote she says. I will get an update later today from my Finnish-Iranian contact. Currently I trust him the most.
It's my current thinking, noting of course that I can be wrong, that the propaganda around Iran has shown us the extent of corrupted actors everywhere, and they are in great numbers.
I've been listening to Mia Tousi, an Iranian living in London whose father lives in Tehran.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjJec0wv1EUomjrBNt1xCTA
He gives a very different picture showing video uploaded via StarLink. From his account, the Iranian regime is close to collapse and the crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, is expected to return to Iran soon. The latest is that pro-Pahlavi demonstrators are executing hundreds of senior IRGC officers and Israel's Mossad is openly helping them. Iranian military has been reluctant to kill their own people, so the IRGC has shipped in mercenaries from Iraq and Syria to kill for them. Tousi says about 2000 demonstrators have been killed, and claims to have seen video from the hospitals confirming this, though he won't show that video he says, because he doesn't want to discourage the protestors.
He also says that most everything has been shut down - the Internet, phone, power, ATM's, and Pahlavi has called for a complete shutdown of all shops and for all Iranians to be in the streets.
It's obviously hard to tell from isolated videos how widespread the uprising is - or how pro-Pahlavi it is - but if Tousi is accurate, I don't expect the Iranian regime to last long - perhaps even just days.
Trump clearly doesn't plan to send in troops, but has threatened the IRGC, and may do air attacks, but that is difficult to do when the situation is so fluid. I presume he is thwarting the IRGC in other ways, like hindering their communications.
Anyway, I'm expecting this to either get very bloody, or to have a full collapse soon.
Hi Dean. Well, everything I've heard contradicts what you wrote she says. I will get an update later today from my Finnish-Iranian contact. Currently I trust him the most.
It's my current thinking, noting of course that I can be wrong, that the propaganda around Iran has shown us the extent of corrupted actors everywhere, and they are in great numbers.