Peace Talks Break Down Between Iran and US Diplomats, War is Now Imminent | 4-Feb-2026
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- “On Mossad’s Payroll”: Iran Unleashes Fury On US At UN Over Protests.
- Iran and the United States clashed openly over nationwide protests, accusations of foreign interference, and threats of military action.
- Iran’s representative accused Washington of hijacking the UN platform, backing violent groups. Attempting to engineer chaos and regime change under the guise of human rights.
- Tehran blamed the U.S. and Israel for escalating unrest, cited past American interventions, and warned that any aggression would trigger a lawful response under the UN Charter. - VIDEO.
- Trump intervened directly: he publicly called for protesters, promised military support, and encouraged violence. This distinguishes current events from previous ones.
- The agents are armed with firearms, knives, grenades and molotov cocktails; supplies are coming from abroad.
- They killed civilians (including children, for example, a three-year-old girl), members of the security forces, set fire to mosques (about 250), educational and scientific centers (more than 250), banks, hospitals, power lines and other infrastructure.
‘Gathering Intelligence’ | Sep 4, 2024
T=1768780858 / Human Date and time (GMT): Mon, 19th January 2026, 00.00.- Trump intervened directly: he publicly called for protesters, promised military support, and encouraged violence. This distinguishes current events from previous ones.
- The agents are armed with firearms, knives, grenades and molotov cocktails; supplies are coming from abroad.
- They killed civilians (including children, for example, a three-year-old girl), members of the security forces, set fire to mosques (about 250), educational and scientific centers (more than 250), banks, hospitals, power lines and other infrastructure.
‘Gathering Intelligence’ | Sep 4, 2024
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Reading Tehran’s Message: Protest, Power, and the Limits of US Coercion
Iran’s Supreme Leader accused the US of orchestrating unrest as protests continue, while analysts say Washington’s direct involvement marks a dangerous shift in pressure on Tehran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused US President Donald Trump of direct responsibility for deaths, destruction, and reputational harm during weeks of unrest in Iran, describing Washington’s role as unprecedented and openly interventionist.
Speaking amid funerals for Iranian security personnel killed during the protests, Khamenei said the recent wave of unrest differed from previous episodes because of the personal involvement of the US president, whom he labeled a “criminal.” He accused individuals linked to the US and Israel of orchestrating violence, arson, and killings, and called on authorities to “break the backbone of sedition.”
Khamenei stressed that Iran does not seek war but will not allow “domestic or international criminals” to escape accountability. His remarks appeared to directly rebut Trump’s public threats of military intervention and repeated calls for regime change, which Iranian officials say emboldened unrest on the ground.
Iranian authorities have described the protests—which began in late December over worsening economic conditions—as having been infiltrated by armed groups backed by foreign actors. Independent rights monitors, including the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), report thousands killed and tens of thousands detained, while Tehran rejects allegations of mass executions.
A Shift from Indirect to Direct Pressure
According to Mujtaba Haidari, an Iranian affairs analyst, Khamenei’s remarks should not be read as a reactive speech but as a strategic framing of the moment.
“These statements are a diagnosis, not a response,” Haidari wrote in Al-Mayadeen. “Khamenei is situating the protests within a long historical conflict with the United States, not as an isolated internal crisis.”
Haidari argues that what distinguishes the current unrest is not its scale alone, but the qualitative change in US involvement.
“In previous periods, Washington relied on indirect tools—media pressure, NGOs, intermediaries, and diplomatic signaling,” he said. “This time, the US president himself intervened publicly, threatening, encouraging, and framing events in real time. That is a major escalation.”
Haidari said this overt involvement exposes Washington’s broader objective: reversing Iran’s political independence and reasserting US dominance over a strategically vital state that has resisted American control since 1979.
The Role of the Iranian Public
Khamenei repeatedly emphasized what he described as the decisive role of the Iranian public in containing the unrest. He credited popular awareness and unity with preventing the protests from becoming an existential crisis for the state.
Haidari agrees that the leadership’s narrative hinges on this point.
“The Iranian state sees society itself as the first line of defense,” he said. “The argument is that while economic grievances are real, the attempt to weaponize them for geopolitical ends failed because people recognized the difference between reform and destabilization.”
At the same time, Khamenei acknowledged the economic hardship facing Iranians and called on officials to intensify efforts to meet basic needs—an acknowledgment Haidari says is critical.
“This is not denial of suffering,” Haidari noted. “It is an attempt to link social justice to political sovereignty, arguing that resilience abroad must be matched by accountability at home.”
Escalation Without War
Despite Trump’s repeated threats—including suggestions of airstrikes—Iranian officials have stressed they do not seek military confrontation. Partial restoration of internet access in recent days suggests an attempt to ease tensions, even as arrests continue.
Yet Haidari warns that the situation remains volatile.
“The danger is not immediate war, but miscalculation,” he said. “When rhetoric escalates this openly, when intelligence operations are acknowledged, and when external actors speak of ‘agents on the ground,’ the margin for error shrinks dramatically.”
Israeli officials have openly expressed support for opposition forces, while US officials maintain that all options remain on the table. Against this backdrop, Haidari says Khamenei’s final message is deliberately calibrated.
“The message is simple,” he said. “Iran will not initiate war—but it will not absorb this level of pressure without response.”
As protests, arrests, and international pressure continue, Iran appears to be entering a phase where internal stability, regional tensions, and global power rivalry are increasingly intertwined—raising questions about how long escalation can be managed without rupture.
(PC, Al-Mayadeen, AJA)
SOURCE:
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/reading-tehrans-message-protest-power-and-the-limits-of-us-coercion/
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Alexander Dugin: On the third attempt, he forced the AI to describe what is happening in Iran more or less neutrally.:
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“On Mossad’s Payroll”: Iran Unleashes Fury On US At UN Over Protests | APT
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‘Gathering Intelligence’
– Who is the Mossad Financier Arrested in Turkiye
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By Robert Inlakesh
The Turkish National Intelligence Organization, according to Turkish media, uncovered the role Rexhepi was playing as an Israeli agent through a monitoring operation.
On Tuesday, Turkish security officials announced that they had detained a major financier of Israeli Mossad activities in Istanbul. This development follows a series of other foiled operations and Israeli intelligence rings that had been arrested by Turkiye’s intelligence services since and prior to October 7.
A Kosovan named Liridon Rexhepi has been arrested and identified publicly by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) as being the head of the Israeli Mossad’s financial network in Turkiye.
The MIT, according to Turkish media, uncovered the role Rexhepi was playing as an Israeli agent through a monitoring operation that spotted inconsistencies in his bank account and tracked Western Union payments sent to recruits working on Mossad’s payroll.
Turkish security forces say that Rexhepi “was transferring money to Mossad’s field agents in Turkiye who filmed Mossad targets with drones, led psychological operations against Palestinian politicians, and gathered intelligence about the Syrian field.”
During his interrogation, he also admitted to transferring funds from Kosovo to Syria, using cryptocurrency.
Previous Arrests
Since October 7, the MIT has arrested at least 20 agents working for the Mossad, while in July a Turkish prosecutor announced he was seeking to impose 20-year jail sentences on some 57 suspects charged with spying for the Mossad.
While the majority of those arrested for working with the Israeli intelligence agency have been Turkish nationals, there have also been many Palestinian and Syrian nationals that have been recruited.
In August 2022, Ankara re-established diplomatic relations with Israel after relations had been formally severed in 2010. Since that time, Israeli espionage operations have been repeatedly uncovered and appear to be running rampant, especially in Istanbul.
In fact, in January of 2023, Al-Jazeera’s investigative unit even released a documentary that followed the story of one such Mossad ring which was broken up by MIT.
In the Al-Jazeera documentary, it was revealed that the Mossad was targeting Palestinian students, attempting to recruit them in various ways, including using financial compensation and blackmail.
For instance, the Mossad managed to use their contacts at European Embassies to quickly grant their agents visas which would usually be very difficult to obtain for Palestinians and would never be approved instantly.
Prior to the formal arrest of the Mossad’s alleged chief financier Liridon Rexhepi on September 3, one day earlier, it was revealed that seven Mossad field agents had also been taken into custody in a joint operation conducted between the Turkish police and MIT, following a series of raids in Istanbul and the Aegean province of Izmir.
According to Turkiye’s state broadcaster TRT, the Israeli agents had been monitoring, photographing, and placing tracking devices on potential targets that it is assumed Israel could have been looking to assassinate.
Although Ankara has warned Israel of “serious consequences” if it attempts to follow up on the threats made by the Israeli domestic security official, Ronen Bar, that Tel Aviv can assassinate leading Hamas figures in Lebanon, Qatar and Turkiye, there has been no official breakdown in ties as a result of the clear Mossad activities ongoing in the country.
‘Disrespecting the President’
Throughout the war in Gaza, Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan has publicly condemned Israel and periodically appeared to declare various restrictions on imports and exports between his country and Tel Aviv.
However, Erdogan is yet to formally cut off ties and is faced with great public pressure to shut off the gas exports that it enables to fuel Israel at this time.
In fact, two Palestinians with Jordanian citizenship were arrested a week ago and are set to be deported for “disrespecting the President” after they held up a banner calling on the Turkish leader to cut gas exports to Israel.
At this time, Israel receives the majority of its gas from Azerbaijan, through Turkiye.
If Erdogan cuts diplomatic relations with Israel and shuts off the gas supply to Tel Aviv, this would represent a serious blow to the regime of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
However, at this time it appears as if Ankara is not willing to take further action against Tel Aviv and is instead waiting out the ongoing genocide, after which it is expected by Western think tanks that relations will be mended between the two sides.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
– Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He focuses on the Middle East, specializing in Palestine. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
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With internet now restored in Iran, more footage is emerging of protestors who «peacefully protested»
With internet now restored in Iran, more footage is emerging of protestors who «peacefully protested»
#Iran #Protests #MiddleEast
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Protests continue in Tehran, with demonstrators clashing with security forces. Reports indicate growing unrest across the city.
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https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/01/23/2027542.html
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Protests have been continuing across Iran for ten days, with demonstrators reportedly seizing control of two cities and police units switching sides to support the protesters, Baza reports.
The unrest erupted in late December amid a severe economic crisis: nearly 50% inflation, a sharp rise in prices, and a rapid devaluation of the national currency. What began as a strike by business owners was soon joined by students. Local protests quickly escalated into nationwide demonstrations with calls for the overthrow of the ruling system and personally Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Clashes and arson have been reported in multiple cities. Protesters are setting fire to buildings belonging to military administrations and security agencies. According to estimates, the unrest has spread to 92 cities in 27 provinces.
Human rights groups report that at least 38 people have been killed over nine days, including four children and two members of the security forces. More than 2,000 people have been detained.
Today, protesters reportedly took control of the cities of Abdanan and Malekshahi, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran. In the city of Ilam, police openly refused to disperse the rally and sided with the demonstrators, Fox News reports.
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Trump intervened directly: he publicly called for protesters, promised military support, and encouraged violence. This distinguishes current events from previous ones.
VastaaPoistaThe agents are armed with firearms, knives, grenades and molotov cocktails; supplies are coming from abroad.
They killed civilians (including children, for example, a three-year-old girl), members of the security forces, set fire to mosques (about 250), educational and scientific centers (more than 250), banks, hospitals, power lines and other infrastructure.
Casualties and damage
The authorities acknowledge the deaths of several thousand people, including civilians and security forces. Some of the dead became victims of the inhuman and savage actions of the agents of the troubles. The significant number of dead and injured among the security forces (Basij, police, IRGC) is highlighted separately — dozens and hundreds of martyrs, including wounded paramedics and damaged ambulances. The damage is enormous: destruction of public property, economic damage.
The Turkish National Intelligence Organization, according to Turkish media, uncovered the role Rexhepi was playing as an Israeli agent through a monitoring operation.
VastaaPoistaOn Tuesday, Turkish security officials announced that they had detained a major financier of Israeli Mossad activities in Istanbul. This development follows a series of other foiled operations and Israeli intelligence rings that had been arrested by Turkiye’s intelligence services since and prior to October 7.