
The regime is capitalizing on the situation, keenly advertising their role in the ongoing turmoil. Their primary audience is the domestic populace that is growing increasingly wary of the government’s antagonistic aspirations.


The regime is capitalizing on the situation, keenly advertising their role in the ongoing turmoil. Their primary audience is the domestic populace that is growing increasingly wary of the government’s antagonistic aspirations.


The teenager’s ordeal began on October 1 at Tehran’s Shohada metro station, when she was physically assaulted by a morality police agent for not adhering to the compulsory hijab mandate.


Parents are now mandated to register via a dedicated system, providing their national ID numbers, to obtain infant formula. Hani Tahvilzadeh, the chief of the Infant Formula Producers Association, remarked on October 17, “The foreign currency needed for importing infant formula hasn’t been allocated in the last six months. As a result, several infant formula production facilities have shut down, with more anticipated to follow.

However, as the reverberations of his aggressive posturing wane, the global community becomes increasingly cognizant of his detrimental influence. The Iranian Resistance, a prominent opposition group, has been long vocal about the need to confront the “head of the snake” in Tehran directly. It is now an open secret that the mullahs’ regime, along with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), have embedded warmongering and the sponsorship of terrorism into their governance ethos.

On Sunday, October 22, 2023, several state-run Iranian news agencies reported that Geravand was likely “brain dead”. This was quickly countered by statements from the Norway-based Hengaw group and U.S. government-funded Radio Farda, which cited interviews with family members expressing hope for her recovery.

Labelled as an “emergency”, the paper details the grim plight of patients, with critically ill individuals suffering the most. The research led to an interview with a nurse named Enayati who shared that specific hospitals have a meager two nurses for an astonishing 35 patients in one ward. This acute nurse shortage in Iranian medical facilities results from the COVID-19 aftermath and the subsequent laying off of nurses as the pandemic ebbed.


The voices of dissent are now becoming louder, surfacing not only on social media but also from within the official state machinery. Mohammad Mokhtari, the Friday Prayer leader in Birjand, in a recent sermon, bemoaned what he perceived as malicious external influences that have been successful in sowing the seeds of doubt regarding Iran’s involvement in other nations such as Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. He cited the sentiments, “Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon, I sacrifice my life for Iran,” as evidence of these influences.


While such a tragedy might typically garner significant attention, Keshvari’s death has been met with silence. The scant details available hint at the Ministry of Guidance possibly restricting comprehensive media coverage due to the incident’s delicate nature.


The two have already spent over a year behind bars for merely bringing the truth to light. Hamedi and Mohammadi were initially detained in Qarchak Prison, infamously known for its harsh conditions. On May 1, 2023, they were transferred to Evin Prison. The 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran passed the judgement, with the controversial Judge Salavati at its helm.

Amidst the heated rhetoric of Iran’s state-run media championed by supreme leader Ali Khamenei and other senior figures, internal disputes about the country’s true geopolitical standing have surfaced. In a concerning revelation, the state-run Ham-Mihan newspaper stated on October 14 that Iran has transitioned from “geopolitical erosion” to a “geopolitical crisis” which poses a threat to the nation’s territorial integrity.