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UPDATE: 8:00 PM CET
Khamenei Warns of Attacks from All Directions
Today, in a meeting with Air Force commanders, Ali Khamenei, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader said: “Today, the Americans’ calculations have turned out to be wrong, and they are receiving a blow from a place they had never imagined before.”
During his speech, Khamenei called on his followers for a more active PR approach and said: “There’s a dictatorship implied on the media and you are not able to mention the name of Qassem Soleimani on the internet and if you do it, they will remove it. They have the keys to the virtual space and they cannot stand the name and photo of Qassem Soleimani. The same space is used to exaggerate the problems in the Islamic Republic or about Islam, about Islamic concepts and teachings and they want to destroy them and distort them. Those responsible for our media, whether the national media or other forms of media, whether on the internet or the press, all are obliged to engage. Anyone who has a platform to speak to public opinion is responsible in this regard.”
Khamenei warned: “Today, the enemy is assaulting in combined fronts. They’re engaged in an economic front, also on a political front, on the media front, and on the diplomatic front. They started a combined attack from all directions. We, on the other hand, must have a combined movement too. We must try in all directions.”
UPDATE: 6:30 PM CET
The Police Can Shoot at People by Law, Says Judiciary Spokesman
Justifying the immediate firing and killing of civilians by the police, a spokesman for the Iranian regime’s Judiciary, explicitly stated that it was not possible to comply with the regime’s own law on shootings.
In his news conference today, Zabiollah Khodaian, spokesman of the regime’s judiciary told reporters: “Our law says that armed officers are allowed to use weapons if they have no choice but to use them, and sometimes they can use other methods. Well, there are cases that they cannot use other methods at all. Like there is no time for going by the book like first firing into the air, then aiming at their legs and then waist up. For example, when there is an armed conflict or when the police are under fire or when attacked by suicidal thugs.”
UPDATE: 1:30 PM CET
People Are Fed Up with The State, Former MP Warns
Amid rising disgust and widespread hatred against the Iranian regime, Reza Ansarirad, a former member of the regime’s parliament admitted that society is done with the state and the constitution of ‘Velayat-e-Faghih’ (absolute rule of the Supreme Leader).
According to the state-run newspaper Hamdeli, Ansarirad said: “Today, everyone knows that the nation has no trust in the management of the country and the constitution. Such issues show that the foundation on which the Constitution and the Islamic Republic were based on the people’s vote, the validity of the people’s will, and the people’s choice have been destroyed and the country’s management has completely deviated from its principal.”
The former member of the regime’s parliament added: “Today, the human mindset denies the lifelong presence of a person in the executive office.”
“As long as there is no change in our country and as long as the management of the country doesn’t change from the top of the hierarchy to the bottom, as long as an elected official is not accountable to the people, nothing will be corrected in this country,” Reza Ansari Rad warned.
UPDATE: 9:00 AM CET
Concerns Escalate Among Iran’s Regime Officials Over Disruption of State TV/Radio Network
Iranian regime officials and state outlets are continuing to voice concerns over the effect of the January 27 disruption of state television and radio networks for 10 seconds that resulted in the airing of footage of Iranian opposition leaders. Regime officials understand very well the lasting impact of such a development on Iran’s society kept under decades of censorship and claims by state media about there being no viable opposition or alternative to the regime.
Revolutionary Guards Insider Recounts Horrific Atrocities During the November 2019 Protests
A member of the Revolutionary Guards gave a harrowing account of atrocities committed by Iranian security forces in a testimony on the last day of the second round of hearings in the Aban Tribunal, a London-based unofficial court that is hearing from witnesses of atrocities the regime security forces committed during the November 2019 protests.
Witness 600, whose voice was altered to protect his identity, presented himself as a senior Revolutionary Guards officer from Tehran. He participated in the arrest of protesters and witnessed the brutal interrogation and torture of civilians in the detention facilities of the IRGC.
Mona Heydari, a victim of honor killings and forced child marriages
The state-run ROKNA news agency reported the horrific murder of Mona Heydari on Saturday, February 5, 2022, with the release of a horrifying video. Mona Heydari’s husband was later seen in the Khashayar neighborhood of Ahvaz with her head and a knife in his hands. He is presently at large.
Mona Heydari was 17 years old and had a 3-year-old son. She was forced to marry her cousin, Sajjad Heydari when she was only 12 years old. Mona was constantly exposed to domestic violence. Every time she asked for a divorce, her family persuaded her to go back home and continue living with her husband for the sake of her child.
Iran’s Regime Expands the Predatory Dominance of the IRGC Over the Economy
With vast control and dominance over Iran’s economic structure, the Iranian regime’s infamous Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), along with its affiliated institutions, has decided to expand their dominance even further, and devour more of the country’s wealth as they interfere with the rice market, destroying the lives of many people and their families who are already living in extreme poverty.
According to the regime’s Minister of Agriculture, Javad Sadatinejad, the government has allocated seven trillion rials to rice farming but has decided to hand over the project to the IRGC’s financial institution, the Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters, claiming that the implementation of this project will make the country independent in terms of the rice import market.
Iranian Protester Commits Suicide After Being Shot and Lost His Eye
A protester who lost his sight after being shot during the November 2019 protests, committed suicide. Mohsen Mahmoudi Kariani, 28, was immediately after being shot by a pellet gun on November 16, 2019, when the state security forces violently repressed protests in Kermanshah, west Iran. Kariani who hanged himself nine months ago was detained for months after being shot. He lost both his eyes due to being denied medical treatment in prison. The news is published after nine months due to the pressure of the security forces on his family.
Read more: Iran News in Brief – February 7, 2022
