The Chaos You See in Iran... Is Not What It Seems
Tehran is burning, but the arsonist is the fire department itself. Former President Ahmedinejad's explosive confession confirms that the regime has been conducting “False Flag” operations against its own cities to survive. The wall of fear has been WIPED OUT; replaced by an urban guerrilla war threatening to COLLAPSE the Islamic Republic from within.
Betrayal from Within
That legendary structure, which Khamenei called his “security wall,” was demolished not by external forces, but by a confession coming from within. The architect of the chaos setting Tehran's streets ablaze is not angry protesters, but Khamenei's paid “Shadow Army.”
In footage confirmed in February 2026, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reveals the regime's darkest secret with the composure of an intelligence chief: “The regime organizes the gangs itself, arms them, and unleashes them on the people.”
This confession proves that the regime has turned into a “suicide squad” that burns its own cities to survive. The goal is clear: to create a legitimate basis—an excuse—for the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) to commit massacres. Agents are sent into the field using official state vehicles, break the first window, and turn a simple bread price protest into an “act of terrorism by foreign powers.”
The Anatomy of Violence on the Ground
At this point, with the regime TRAPPED in the jaws of the monster it created, the violent machine on the ground—the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij Militia—kicks in. Marketed as a “20 million-strong army,” this structure has completely lost its ideological motivation and has evolved into a mercenary group motivated solely by money.
The scale of the violence is at a level analysts describe as “unprecedented brutality.” According to Forbes reports and data from the field, IRGC forces used DShK heavy machine guns, typically used to penetrate armored vehicles on the battlefield, against unarmed civilians.
This is not dispersing a crowd, it is ANNIHILATING a crowd. Urban warfare tactics learned from the Assad regime, which targeted its own people in Guta and Hama, Syria, are now being applied on the streets of Isfahan and Tabriz. Even more tragic is the “Engineering of Pressure.” The bodies of killed protesters are forcibly registered as “Martyrs of the Regime” or “Members of the Basij” in exchange for their release to their families.
Boomerang Effect and Urban Warfare
However, this brutality has created an unexpected BOOMERANG EFFECT. With Ahmedinejad's revelations, the people have opened their eyes and now recognize the plainclothes agents and motorcycle militias. The wall of fear is GONE. Crowds that used to flee are now organizing and counterattacking.
The people are stopping ambulances and checking their contents, in response to the regime filling ambulances with soldiers and driving them into the protesters. This is more than civil disobedience; it is an all-out urban guerrilla war.
IRGC commanders Mohammed Kazemi and Abbas Nilforushan, who are on the Treasury Department's sanctions list, are now the number one target not only of the West but also of their own people. These figures, whom the regime had made untouchable, are now forced to travel to their homes in armored vehicles and flee their families abroad. The slogans have long since changed: from “Death to the Dictator” to **“Death to the Revolutionary Guards”**.
Deep State War
Ahmadinejad's departure is not a momentary outburst of anger, but the pus of a deep state crisis that has been festering for years. In Iran, the office of “President” is merely a facade in the face of Khamenei's absolute authority. Khamenei sees the bond that elected officials have established with the people as a threat and uses the IRGC as a “parallel state” to sever that bond.
Today, President Masoud Pezeshkiyan is also a victim of the same scenario. Promises of economic reform have been CRUSHED by Khamenei's security apparatus. According to AEI analysis, the IRGC, which controls half of the ministries and the country's economic arteries, is Khamenei's only support. However, this loyalty creates absolute CHAOS at the top of the state.
The Regime's Funeral Pyre
Looking at the big picture, Iran has entered a process of structural and strategic COLLAPSE. With the breakdown of the central chain of command, there is a high risk that the IRGC's regional commands will turn into independent “war networks.” This is a Syrian scenario with nuclear infrastructure.
While Khamenei is busy protecting his own capital, he cannot send money to Beirut or Sana'a. The regime's suicide means cutting off the logistical lifelines of proxy forces such as Hezbollah and the Houthis.
Khamenei has fallen into the trap he set himself. The more he increases the violence, the more he loses legitimacy; if he reduces it, the regime collapses. This is a classic “lose-lose” spiral. The fire burning in the streets of Tehran will no longer be extinguished by water cannons. Because everyone knows that it was the fire department itself that poured gasoline on that fire. The game is over. The regime has lost the war it waged against its own people.
