In one of history’s cruelest political ironies, the Leftists and Communists who helped Ayatollah Khomeini overthrow the Shah were among the first to be imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the very Islamic regime they helped bring to power.
On February 6, the US virtual embassy in Iran released a critical security alert advising all American citizens to leave the country immediately due...
As the protests by anti-government Iranians and the Mullah regime’s violent crackdown intensified, the US, especially President Donald Trump, and Iranian officials exchanged threats.
“This figure includes 505 protesters (among them 9 children), 133 military and law enforcement personnel, one prosecutor, and seven non-protesting civilian citizens,” the report states, adding that 579 other reports of deaths remain under review.
The ongoing protests in Iran are primarily triggered by a serious economic crisis, although regime change voices are also significantly loud. The immediate trigger is the dramatic collapse of the Iranian Rial (Iran’s currency), which plunged to a historic low of around 1.42–1.45 million to the US dollar
Interestingly, Trump's regime change comments come just days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that regime change in Iran "could certainly be the result" of Israel's operation there, since the Islamic regime is currently "very weak".