Khamenei can hear protests from his house, IRGC commander complains

NCRI – A commander of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has expressed fear over the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people and its prospects for the regime’s overthrow, saying that the protests have come close to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader’s residence. He added that Ali Khamenei, the regime’s Supreme Leader, can hear the sound of the protests from his house.

The IRGC commander, Saeed Qasemi, who fought in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, was speaking at a ceremony remembering the disappearance of IRGC member Ahmad Motevasselian in Beirut.

In his comments, he said, “Our Dear Ahmad, I am glad that you are not here and I hope that you will never hear the news that the front lines have reached Islamic Republic avenue, and the Commander-in-Chief [Khamenei] can hear the ominous sounds [of anti-regime protests] from his house. You cannot believe it, dear Ahmad. If you were here, today the front lines would have been in Europe and the Middle East, not in our own house.”

Qasemi also pointed to widespread defections among the IRGC and its paramilitary Bassij Force during the year-long popular protests against the clerical regime, saying, “The Islamic Republic today does not have people like Ahmad and Mohsen Vozarai, who could occupy the nest of spies [US embassy] without any previous plan and later ask the Imam [Khomeini] for the next steps.”

Qasemi also underlined the Iranian regime’s meddling in Lebanon and dispatching IRGC members to create chaos in that country and export terrorism to the region, saying, “The Imam and Supreme Leader would have said that the primary goal of the Islamic Republic’s objectives is to defend Palestine as the strategic depth of the Islamic Republic system. For us, sending flour and cooking oil there is not a game. Rather, Palestine represents the depth of the Islamic Republic’s strategic challenge.”