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*'I Am Afraid Iran Will Be Destroyed – Yet The Islamic Republic Will Remain' By Elahi, in Tehran It’s 5am on Thursday 12 March. I was finally falling asleep after a day full of fear when the phone rang. Terror rushes through me. It’s not the right time for a call. Someone must need help – or maybe they are alone and frightened. I answer the phone, exhausted. It’s my younger sister. She is crying and cannot speak. My heart breaks into a thousand pieces. I haven’t seen her for many days. When I was released from prison, she had…

*Mojtaba Khameinei Announced As New Supreme Leader *IRGC Pledges Total Obedience To Him *War Sees Oil Prices Top $100/b, Trump Predicts Sharp Drop Soon *We've Killed, Injured Over 200 US Troops, Military Spokesman Claims Apparently mocking the United States (US), Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council has thanked the Assembly of Experts for selecting Ali Khamenei's successor despite "Trump's threat to bomb it", according to multiple Iranian news agencies. Ali Larijani said Tehran's "enemies" thought the country would "reach a deadlock" following the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei but the Assembly ultimately proceeded with the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei,…

*'Next Supreme Leader Must Be Someone Hated By America, Israel, Not Praised' *Successor To Late Ali Khameinei To Be Announced Shortly, Partly In Bid To Marginalize President *Israel Hands Death Threat To Whoever Succeeds Khameinei As the war against the United States (US) and Israel enters its eighth day today, signs of an internal power struggle are beginning to emerge inside Iran. Yesterday, President Masoud Pezeshkian on state TV apologized to the country's Middle East neighbours over missiles fired by Iran into their territories, saying his country would no longer do so if those countries do not make themselves launchpads…

The Iranian regime is unlikely to be toppled even by a large-scale military assault, a classified report by the US National Intelligence Council concluded. The report, which was completed a week before the current US-Israeli military campaign, highlights several factors for the regime's resilience, the Washington Post reported. The National Intelligence Council acts as a focal point for coordinating analysis across the 18 agencies of the US Intelligence Community. First, the assessment found that the Iranian regime has established clear protocols to ensure survival even if high-ranking leaders are killed. Second, intelligence officials find it unlikely that fragmented opposition groups…

*Refuse To Surrender, Then We Will Have To Totally Destroy You --Trump Fires Back *Iran Apologises To Gulf Arab Nations Hit By Tehran's Missiles In open defiance, President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran has rejected US President Donald Trump’s call for his country’s unconditional surrender in the ongoing war, waving off the demand as a “dream." But, he issued a rare apology for Iranian attacks that hit neighbouring states, even as missiles and drones continued to strike Gulf countries. In a prerecorded address broadcast on state television on Saturday, Pezeshkian said the country would never capitulate, responding to remarks by the…

*To Taunt Israel Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's official account is still active even after joint US-Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran and killed him on February 28. In a threatening message, Khamenei's account posted that Israel has made a big mistake in attacking the Middle East eand will face consequences that will make it "desperate." The post read: "The Zionist regime has made a big mistake, and its consequences will make the regime desperate, by God's grace," the post on X read. The image in the post features a three-panel collage designed to showcase Iran's missile power. The first…

Russia has been sharing intelligence with Iran on the location of US forces in the Middle East in an attempt to help Tehran fight back, according to a new report. The Kremlin has passed on the locations of American warships, aircraft, and other military assets ever since 'Operation Epic Fury' kicked off a week ago, three sources told the Washington Post in a story published today. “It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive effort,” one official familiar with the intel told the newspaper. Since the opening strike was fired last Saturday, Iran has scrambled to fire thousands of drones…

*I Must Have Say In Picking Iran's Next Ruler --Trump *Not Your Business, We Won't Let You Have Say -Foreign Minister Araghchi *Surrender Or Die, Trump Urges IRGC, Military Iran’s Ambassador to Egypt, Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, yesterday said Iran is not engaged in any direct or indirect communication with the US to bring an end to the war, adding that US President Donald Trump’s comments that Iran wants to negotiate are untrue, Associated Press (AP) reports. Pour cited a lack of trust after the US twice attacked Iran amid negotiations of a possible nuclear deal, saying there “will be no…

*US, Israel Instigate Move To Make Tehran Fight On Many Fronts *Offensive Expected To Open Doors For Iranian Masses To Rise, Get Rid Of Regime *Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Bares Fangs At Kurds Thousands of Kurdish fighters reportedly launched a ground offensive inside Iran on Wednesday, according to reports — following claims that Israel and the US were hoping that the armed ethnic minority group could help overthrow the Islamist regime. The Kurdish forces are operating along the Iran-Iraq border, where its major militias are based, with the goal of applying pressure to Iran’s scrambling security forces, the Jerusalem Post…

*Had No Official Role In Father's Regime *Close To Brutal Revolutionary Guards Corps *Sanctioned By US In 2019 *First Father-To-Son Succession In Iran Since 1979 Islamic Revolution Oldest son of the late Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been selected to replace him as the nation's highest authority, according to a report in Iranian opposition media. Fifty six-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei was tapped to assume control of the country by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, Iranian International reported on Tuesday. Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism, and has close ties to Iran’s notoriously brutal Islamic…