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To the brave Iranian people: the free world stands with you in your fight against the tyrannical mullahs.
I still mourn the lions who fell in January. Their deaths will be avenged. The IRGC killers will face justice.
Keep the faith. Free Iran! Javid Shah!
I’m Iranian, born and raised in Iran. I love pork and beer, and I want to make one thing clear: Persians are not Muslim.
Persia’s civilization stretches back thousands of years before Islam existed.
So, brother, when Iran is free, your first drink in Tehran is on me!
PS: The picture below was taken when I was in Iran. In Iran, people only drink alcohol in private because it is illegal in public.
When an Iranian like me says Persians aren’t Muslim, we drink alcohol, eat pork, and value freedom, Muslim and Islamist accounts (mostly Turkish and Pakistani here) flood the post with hate and BS.
But I wanna tell you the harsh truth: Contrary to the Islamic Republic’s fake statistics, most Iranians aren’t Muslim, they’re forced to be “Muslim” on paper. Even I was forced to claim I was Muslim and I had to wear Mandatory hijab for years when I was in Iran while clearly I’ve always been anti-Islam and I hate hijab.
FYI videos: Post 79 Iran and Iran Today, where women bravely risk arrest, prison, and death to dress freely, showing the world they reject Islam. They’re fed up and want freedom even at the cost of their lives. Many are still arrested and punished daily, yet they don’t stop and they want this barbaric regime to be gone.
So idc if this pisses you off but Persians are not Muslims.☺️😇
This is what the decline of Islam in Iran looks like. The situation is getting so out of control that the mullahs are losing their grip.
They’re trying to pass a law to punish anyone who refuses to wear a hijab in public.Gen Z is running Islam over with a steamroller in Iran.
هفتم آبان، روز بزرگداشت کوروش بزرگ، روز پاسداشت شکوه ایران و ارزشهای دیرپای آزادی، رواداری و دادگری است که ملت ما در گذر سدهها آنها را زنده داشته است.
نام و کارنامه کوروش برای ما تنها یادآور شکوه گذشته نیست بلکه صخرهای استوار و سکوی پرشی است برای دستیابی به آیندهای بهتر، آیندهای که به گواهی تاریخ پرشکوهمان سزاوار آنیم.
بر اساس همین بیداری ملی و بازشناسی هویت تاریخی بود که دهها هزار ایرانی میهنپرست، ده سال پیش در روز کوروش در پاسارگاد گرد هم آمدند و نقطه عطفی را در مبارزه برای بازپسگیری ایران رقم زدند، و پایههای انقلاب ملی شیروخورشید را با خواست رهایی ایران از چنگال ضحاک زمانه بنا نهادند.
ملت ایران، وارث کوروش بزرگ، در برابر استبداد سر فرود نخواهد آورد و میهن خود را آزاد، آباد و سربلند از نو خواهد ساخت.
روز کوروش بزرگ خجسته باد.
پاینده ایران
🔴 Reports indicate United States has told several Arab states in Persian Gulf to prepare for a short, intense military campaign against Islamic Republic after the November 3 midterms.
A Patriot battery is moving from Texas to the region. Troops have been pulled from vulnerable bases. Munitions are being restocked. Bombers and fighters are being readied. Another carrier strike group and a Marine expeditionary unit are expected to join the roughly 20 US warships already there next month.
President Trump has not decided but is leaning toward a large post-election attack on infrastructure and nuclear sites. The White House would only say Trump “keeps all options on the table to ensure that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.” At the Lubbock rally, Trump said: “You’ll see Iran in a couple of weeks, if you don’t mind.”
Islamic Republic had already bet on stalling until after the midterms. The IAEA still cannot verify 440 kg of highly enriched uranium. So, now even the Persian Gulf states are being told to brace.
Any strike is aimed at the IRGC’s nuclear and missile machine, not at the Iranian people, who have been begging the world to stop the regime since January.
🚨 FOR IRAN, FROM SYDNEY: "MR. PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU HAVE MADE HISTORY." NOW MEET PRINCE REZA PAHLAVI.
The Lion and Sun flag is held up at a harbour railing, with a small handwritten note at its corner: Trump meet Pahlavi. Behind it, the Sydney Opera House, and then the Harbour Bridge as the camera moves.
First: "Mr. President Trump, you have made history. Now help shape Iran's future." Then the ask, by name: please meet Prince Reza Pahlavi.
Then: "Even here, I feel compelled to cover my face, as the wicked hand of terrorism knows no borders." And at the end: "Long live America! Long live Iran!"
That is a voice from Australia, standing behind a flag, because this regime hunts its critics far beyond Iran.
The name on the note is Prince Reza Pahlavi's. He lives in exile, Iranians want him to lead them when the Islamic Republic falls, and they are asking President Trump for one meeting with him.
Repost it so the message crosses one more ocean.
Hold up your flag or your note wherever you live, film it and send it to me on Telegram. The link is in the first reply.
Which landmark should be next behind this flag? Tell me below.
#TrumpMeetPahlavi
Nahid Vaez, 34, was an employee & resident of #Qazvin
Her greatest dream was a bright future for her son💔
On Jan. 9, 2026 #IranProtests,regime security forces shot her dead, leaving her 4 yo son forever deprived of his mother’s loving embrace & warmth🖤
https://t.co/xOTIZk72ps
The Islamic Republic is now openly declaring that it will pursue nuclear weapons and will not be deterred.
IRGC-linked Fars News is amplifying public calls for Iran to build the bomb, while the regime’s official representatives continue insisting that its nuclear program remains peaceful.
Saeed Leylaz, an economist historically associated with reformists, declared that Iran has “no choice but to become atomic.” He argued that nuclear-armed states are not attacked and that Iran now needs a nuclear shield.
His reformist background makes the message more useful. The regime can present nuclear weapons not as a hardline obsession, but as a national necessity supposedly imposed by American and Israeli attacks.
This does not yet confirm that a final order to assemble a weapon has been issued. It shows that the regime is deliberately preparing the Iranian public and testing the international response to an overt nuclear-weapons doctrine.
The timing is alarming.
The Islamic Republic’s missiles, proxies and underground facilities failed to prevent devastating attacks on its leadership, military and nuclear infrastructure. Its conventional deterrence was exposed as inadequate. Nuclear weapons are now being promoted as the shield its regional network could not provide.
The leadership change has widened the danger. Ali Khamenei’s nuclear fatwa was always politically reversible, and the new leadership has not clearly reaffirmed it as an absolute prohibition. Hardliners, parliamentarians and regime media are increasingly demanding that the doctrine be reconsidered.
Behind this public campaign is a deepening verification crisis.
Before inspectors lost effective access, Iran possessed approximately 440.9 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent. If enriched further, that could theoretically produce enough weapons-grade material for roughly ten bombs, although building deployable weapons would require additional steps.
The International Atomic Energy Agency can no longer confirm the stockpile’s current size, composition or location. It also cannot verify whether enrichment has stopped at Iran’s declared facilities.
That means the regime is publicly normalizing nuclear weapons while the international community is increasingly blind to the material and infrastructure that could produce them.
Any future agreement must be judged against this reality.
A deal limited to declared and already damaged facilities would leave the central danger intact. The Islamic Republic retains nuclear expertise, centrifuge knowledge, underground infrastructure and decades of experience concealing sensitive activities from inspectors.
It could accept restrictions at known sites, obtain sanctions relief and preserve material, equipment or parallel work elsewhere. An agreement without permanent access, complete material accounting and verification of centrifuge production would restore the regime’s finances without eliminating its nuclear option.
The dual message is deliberate.
For diplomacy, the regime says it does not seek the bomb.
For its domestic audience and its enemies, IRGC media says nuclear weapons are necessary and unavoidable.
The Islamic Republic is moving from nuclear ambiguity toward nuclear normalization. The danger is no longer confined to what may be happening underground. The regime is now building the political justification above ground.
If the uranium remains unaccounted for and inspectors remain obstructed, the world may discover that the debate over whether the Islamic Republic should build a bomb was merely cover for how far it had already progressed.
In one hour, Prince Reza Pahlavi's video message addressed to the people of Iran will be released.
You can watch this message from the official accounts of Prince Reza Pahlavi, National Revolution Television of Iran, and other Persian-language media outlets.
From a National Security perspective, @PahlaviReza’s message highlights 3 strategic dimensions:
public mobilization, fractures within the security apparatus, & stability during political transition.
These dynamics deserve serious analytical attention.
شاهزاده رضا پهلوی در پیام ویدیویی تازهای، از همه ایرانیان، نه فقط نیروهای نظامی و دولتی، دعوت کرد به کارزار همکاری ملی برای نجات ایران بپیوندند.
او با تأکید بر اینکه جمهوری اسلامی ضعیفتر از هر زمان دیگری است، اعلام کرد برای سرنگونی رژیم و اداره ایران پس از آن برنامهای روشن وجود دارد، برنامهای برای حفظ امنیت و ثبات در دوران گذار، تضمین آزادیهای اساسی و تأمین نیازهای ضروری مردم.
شاهزاده همچنین از نیروهای نظامی، انتظامی و امنیتی خواست به ملت بپیوندند و در روز آزادی ایران در کنار مردم بایستند تا اماننامه دریافت کنند.
برای ارتباط مستقیم با تیم شاهزاده رضا پهلوی و پیوستن به کارزار همکاری ملی برای نجات ایران، از طریق نشانی زیر در تلگرام اقدام کنید:
BarkhizIranBot
تا ساعتی دیگر، پیام تصویری شاهزاده رضا پهلوی خطاب به ملت ایران منتشر میشود.
این پیام را از حسابهای رسمی شاهزاده رضا پهلوی، تلویزیون انقلاب ملی ایران و دیگر رسانههای فارسیزبان میتوانید تماشا کنید.
My brave fellow Iranians,
The Islamic Republic is weaker and more fragmented than ever. It is not the same regime that ruled Iran a year ago. Its missing leader and senior officials are afraid of the Iranian people. They know that a nationwide uprising can bring their rule to an end.
This criminal regime and its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have dragged our country into war and put Iran’s future at risk. The IRGC controls much of the country, steals its wealth, and is responsible for much of the economic crisis and insecurity we face today.
They have left our people without enough food, without security, and without hope for the future. They are willing to destroy Iran to stay in power.
Our country has already suffered too much. We cannot allow more destruction. We must stand together and do everything we can to save Iran.
We have a clear plan to end the Islamic Republic and manage the country after it falls. Our plan will maintain security and stability, protect people’s basic freedoms, and make sure their essential needs are met.
To those serving in the military, police, and security forces: stand with the people, not the regime. Join the nation when the time comes to free Iran. Those who do so will be guaranteed safety and protection from reprisals. But those who continue to support the regime and commit crimes against our people will face justice under the law.
This time, I call not only on military and government personnel, but on Iranians from every walk of life who have had enough of this regime and seek a free and prosperous future for our country. Join us. Contact my team directly through https://t.co/HRfluL4sy4 on Telegram and sign up today for the National Cooperation Campaign to Save Iran.
Together, we can bring the Islamic Republic to an end and build a new future of freedom, peace, and prosperity for Iran.
Long live Iran
Reza Pahlavi
Side by side across the globe: Iranians unite for the liberation of their homeland.
Global rallies and gatherings by the Iranian diaspora over the past week, bringing the voices of their compatriots inside Iran to the world.