The Iranian regime has been dealing with a series of setbacks and blows over the past few years and months. The US administration has made it very clear that it is going to continue putting pressure on the Iranian regime, especially with regards to its financing of terrorist activities. Iran’s oil exports have withered away to almost nothing.
The Coronavirus health crisis continues to decline, with hundreds of new deaths reported every day. The Iranian regime has tried to portray the situation as being under control, but the statistics speak for themselves.
Amnesty International has recently issued a reminder about the 304 Iranians who lost their lives in the November 2019 protests. The organization said that these deaths were unacceptable as they were due to the use of lethal force when handling the protesters. Not only that but some protesters were arrested and even some have disappeared altogether.
Recent facts have revealed that the regime is in serious trouble as on 18th May an Iranian MP Fereydoun Ahmadi, as reported by the regime’s Farhang radio, said in Parliament that the way the ordinary people are being treated by the justice system is no longer acceptable and does not guarantee that such people are being treated fairly.
Following internal and international social protests against the arrest of youth and elite students by the regime’s Revolutionary Guards, the government website Erja News tried yesterday to justify those arrests. The site acknowledged the social support for the PMOI/MEK (Mojahedin) in Iran, showing the regime’s deep-seated fear of an uprising and the role of the pro-MEK Iran youth in organizing protests.
Saeed Moidfar, a sociologist in Iran’s regime, made his views known to the state-run Etemad Online website that the mullahs’ regime is no longer viable and it is near its end. The “convicts,” as he calls them, are fully aware that nothing but destruction will be their demise.
The seriousness of the situation is such that President Hassan Rouhani was forced to recognize the spread of COVID-19 in prisons.
In a speech given at his annual meeting with a group of paramilitary Bassij students, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei displayed a new depth of the acute crisis his regime is facing.
“At the beginning of the [1979] revolution, we had young people who were Muslims and had entered the scene in defense of Islam,” Khamenei said in his online virtual videoconference.
The coronavirus crisis in Iran has exposed the mismanagement in the mullahs’ rule more than ever. The regime is trying to portray a normalized situation and downplay the corona crisis. With the approval of a loan of one million tomans ($ 66) to people, the regime pretends it is helping the people like the western countries do.
