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Posted on 10/08/2022 1:05:38 PM PDT by nuconvert
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 17
The IRGC threatened Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia for their alleged roles in stoking the ongoing, anti-regime protests.
The IRGC could use the troops it mobilized for the military exercise to violently suppress planned protests in northwestern Iran on October 20.
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least 10 cities in 9 provinces.
The New York Times reported that the regime may have deployed special forces from the IRGC Ground Forces in recent days to suppress protests in Tehran and other major cities.
Several reformist politicians proposed reforms to end the current crisis.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the IRGC is using members of Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqi proxies to suppress protests in Iran, citing unidentified sources.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-17
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 18
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s refusal to concede on the mandatory hijab law is likely driving fissures among the political elite.
The ongoing crackdown demonstrates how heavily the regime has begun using advanced and emerging technologies to impose social control.
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least nine cities in eight provinces.
Worker strikes expanded to new locations and economic sectors.
Protest organizations called for demonstrations in West Azerbaijan, Ilam, Kermanshah, and Kurdistan provinces on October 19.
A Persian-language Telegram account posted instructions for protesters on how to use handguns.
Iran may attack Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the perceived Saudi role in stoking the protests.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-18
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 19
Anti-regime protests have subsided in size and scale in recent days but may increase on October 20 and 26.
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least 10 cities in 8 provinces on October 19.
The IRGC continued to threaten Azerbaijan militarily for allegedly hosting Israeli intelligence agents on October 19.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gave a speech praising Iranian academics in a meeting with Iranian university science students and faculty members on October 19.
IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency reported that most arrested protestors are younger than 35.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-19
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 20
Anti-regime protests continued to subside in extent and scale, occurring in at least five cities in five provinces on October 20.
Protests may increase on October 22 and 26.
Salafi Jihadi militant group Jaish al Adl published a video threatening to overthrow the regime and expressing support for Iranian protestors.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaish_ul-Adl
https://twitter.com/FridaGhitis/status/1583223883674447872
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Yasmine Pahlavi (Reza’s wife) posted on her social media site:
Obama “said he didn’t interfere in Iran protests while president because he didn’t want the young unarmed youth dying in the streets to seem like stooges of the U.S. Oddly, he did not have the same reservations when he sent billions to the Regime. Sorry to question the democrat messiah, but I must.”
Reza Pahlavi during an international media conference, said that money needs to be supplied to laborers who are on strike, and a temporary gov’t should be set up now, for after the fall of the regime.
If Khamenei is truly dying of cancer, the IRGC will swoop in and take over in a military junta when he is incapcitated at the end. It’s thought that they will give some social freedoms in order to appease the public.
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 21
The regime’s use of extreme violence against protesters in Sistan and Baluchistan Province is likely entrenching long-term frustration against the political establishment there.
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least three cities in three provinces.
Unknown hackers claimed to have hacked the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-21
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 22
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least 24 cities in 18 provinces on October 22—a significant increase from the protest activity in recent days.
Some marginalized segments of the reformist faction are continuing to criticize the regime crackdown.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and regime media channels claimed a new separatist movement has formed in Azerbaijan’s autonomous Nakhchivan region.
Anti-regime hacker group Black Reward published 50 gigabytes of documents related to the Iranian nuclear program on October 22. The group posted a video that reportedly depicted the Bushehr nuclear facility’s reactor room.[34] It also posted links to documents containing private discussions between Iranian and International Atomic Energy Agency officials, contracts with foreign and domestic entities related to atomic development, strategic planning documents for the Iranian nuclear industry, and passports and visas for Russian and Iranian technicians cooperating on work in the Bushehr facility.[35]
Black Reward first announced a series of cyberattacks against regime institutions and media outlets after emerging online on September 25.[36] The group claims to belong to a larger Iranian hacker community that intends to destroy the “clerical criminal regime for women, life, [and] freedom.”[37]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-22
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 23
Iranian university and high school students are sustaining the momentum of the ongoing protest movement, leading the demonstrations into their 37th consecutive day.
A senior Iranian Sunni cleric—Maulvi Abdol Hamid—may emerge as a local protest leader in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province.
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least 16 cities in 13 provinces.
Iranian state media and proxy Telegram channels reported that unidentified militants launched four rockets at the al Omar oilfield, which houses US forces, in eastern Syria.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-23
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 25
Protest activity will likely increase—possibly significantly—on October 26 to commemorate the 40th day since the regime killed Mahsa Amini.
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least 13 cities in 11 provinces.
University students heckled a senior Raisi administration official attempting to engage student protesters for the second consecutive day.
The IRGC announced that unidentified militants killed one IRGC member and one Basij member in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province.
An IRGC Telegram channel advertised a new VPN service on October 25 likely to identify and monitor individuals seeking to circumvent regime internet restrictions.[26]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-25
Massive demonstrations
26 Oct 2022 - Saqez, Kurdistan, Iran. 40th day after the murder of Mahsa Amini Massive crowd of people marching toward Mahsa’s grave
https://twitter.com/YasamanFlower/status/1585240843409317891
This is Hafez Street in Tehran earlier today https://twitter.com/Sazari2015/status/1585311756141797383
Nightly protests across Iran. From Tehran to Kerman.
“Seyyed Ali (Khamenei) will be overthrown this year!”
“Islamic Republic, we don’t want, we don’t want!”
Internet is down, clashes reported across the country.
https://twitter.com/iran_true/status/1585308686599262211
In Saqez, the hometown of Mahsa Amini, tens of thousands of people ignored governmental threats and roadblocks and showed up to mourn her on the 40th day of her killing.
https://twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1585294479879176195
Taking down the banner of Qassem Soleimani and Khomeini at the University of Science and Researc
https://twitter.com/FattahiFarzad/status/1585278615650017280
People from Amol kneel and show their chests in front of the clowns knowing that it can lead to their death
https://twitter.com/Babimorr/status/1585343025340854272
Borujerd, Lorestan province
https://twitter.com/aliostad/status/1585344611371077633
Borujen, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province
Protesters trying to overturn a police car
https://twitter.com/aliostad/status/1585345053362335744
Protests swept across Iran after Ms Amini, 22, died on 16 September.
On Wednesday, security forces were deployed in Saqqez and other parts of Kurdistan province, in anticipation of fresh demonstrations on the 40th day of mourning for Ms Amini - a culturally significant occasion for Iranians. One young female protester inside Iran told BBC World News: “You cannot imagine how tough it is to go to streets knowing that they are ready to shoot. But we are not afraid. “It's not about me. It's about the next generation. We want to have a normal life.”
She added: “I don't know when our protests will come to an end, but today Iranian society is more awake than ever and we are ready for big changes.”
“Throwing a table and a barrel from the roof onto the heads of officers in Sepahsalar Garden #Tehran
https://twitter.com/Vahid/status/1585274690515386370
The ceremony of burning scarves in “Pirizih Street #Tehran,
https://twitter.com/Vahid/status/1585352494493810688
Tabriz
https://twitter.com/FarashgardFdn/status/1585351907446603776
The ongoing, anti-regime protests in Iran expanded significantly on October 26, occurring in at least 33 cities in 23 provinces.
The regime will likely exploit a militant attack on a Shia shrine in Shiraz, Fars Province to contain the protests.
The Islamic State is trying to capitalize on the shrine attack and protests to stoke instability and sectarian conflict in Iran.
US officials stated that Russia may be advising the Iranian regime's protest crackdown.
IRGC-affiliated media continued to spread disinformation to downplay protests and discredit frustrated citizens
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-26
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Basij (armed militia) on motorcycles shooting at people indiscriminately in Tehran
https://twitter.com/i/status/1585348863921037312
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