{"id":12171,"date":"2018-10-18T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=12171"},"modified":"2018-10-31T06:46:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:46:45","slug":"iranian-youths-gaining-strength-under-resistance-units-for-regime-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2018\/10\/18\/iranian-youths-gaining-strength-under-resistance-units-for-regime-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Youths Gaining Strength Under &#8220;Resistance Units&#8221; For Regime Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/irans-youths-keeping-flame-resistance-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delivered<\/a> a Hitler-like speech in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Thursday October 4, shedding light on his concerns over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/12163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increasing protests<\/a> and international sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei focused his remarks on the youths, describing them as \u201cdeviated\u201d and \u201ca problem for the society\u201d and said:\u00a0\u201cThe true problem is that the country\u2019s youth believe there are no solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12164 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Iran-at-the-Threshold-of-Another-Revolution-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Iran-at-the-Threshold-of-Another-Revolution-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Iran-at-the-Threshold-of-Another-Revolution-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Iran-at-the-Threshold-of-Another-Revolution.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The truth, however, is that the Iranian people\u2019s ongoing protests have proven that the ruling mullahs literally hate Iran\u2019s youths. They are rebellious in nature and are in pursuit of liberating their country from the mullahs\u2019 dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>The regime has focused a demonizing campaign against the Iranian opposition People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) under the leadership of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/en\/massoudrajavi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massoud Rajavi<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/about\/our-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCRI<\/a> President\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/about\/biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>. Despite these efforts, the country\u2019s youth have come to know this Resistance due to their presence in Iran\u2019s social fabric and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-resistance-units-call-for-prosecution-1988-massacre-perpetrators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movement seeking justice<\/a>\u00a0for over 30,000 political prisoners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/11265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massacred in the summer of 1988<\/a> by the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the youths and indeed the entire Iranian nation are aiming to bring an end to this corrupt regime by rising up against continuing arrests, torture and executions and the daily plundering by the mullahs corrupt officials seen across the country.<\/p>\n<p>These youths are now gaining strength under the PMOI\/MEK organized \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/how-iran-opposition-pmoimek-resistance-units-pave-the-path\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resistance Units<\/a>\u201d framework, and that is the truth Khamenei has been forced to acknowledge. The youths are continuing to play a defining role in the uprising against the mullahs\u2019 dictatorship, raising anger among the mullahs\u2019 regime to a significant level.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12173\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Khamenei-Hitler-Similar-Speech-Stadium-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Khamenei-Hitler-Similar-Speech-Stadium-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Khamenei-Hitler-Similar-Speech-Stadium-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Khamenei-Hitler-Similar-Speech-Stadium.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khamenei Delivers Hitler-Like Speech in Azadi Stadium in Tehran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his speech, Khamenei intended to claim his regime remains in power and has not been overthrown. Similar to Adolf Hitler, Khamenei has made the mistake of believing his regime enjoys popular support.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei went as far as claiming Iran\u2019s youth are the \u201cdriving force\u201d of his regime. However, he failed to mention the fact that all major decisions in this regime are in the hands of those who are the youth\u2019s main enemies, and the enemies of all Iranians.\u00a0Of course, Khamenei failed to mention the fact that in the past four decades his regime has executed tens of thousands of youths.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei, however, did say he is facing a major dilemma of defections among his regime\u2019s supporters. This is an unprecedented acknowledgment of his regime\u2019s days facing numbered days. He also repeated Khomeini\u2019s remarks of saying the regime\u2019s enemy is not the U.S., but the PMOI\/MEK that are active inside Iran. He said dissidents are active and even present among us.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei also didn\u2019t cloak the fact that his regime\u2019s survival faces \u201ca treacherous road\u201d full of \u201cobstacles, and is in need of a major \u201cintellectual and practical overhaul.\u201d However, senior regime officials are all \u201ctired, out of steam and lacking any spirit,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have economic problems. We have an economy relying on oil, which itself is a major problem. We also lack a culture of cutting back on consumption,\u201d Khamenei said.<\/p>\n<p>He could not be clearer in acknowledging the fact that his regime has suffered defeats in the face of crippling sanctions scheduled for early November. All the while, he threatened to impose further crackdown against the Iranian people.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei discussed the people\u2019s poverty and poor living conditions but failed to mention his own assets, and those of senior Iranian regime officials, reaching hundreds of millions, and even dozens of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur dissidents are using the media to influence public opinion. The media is an important tool and if the enemy gets a hold of it, it is a dangerous tool,\u201d he emphasized. However, he didn\u2019t mention the fact that his regime has thousands of state-controlled media outlets in the face of just a few belonging to the opposition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12166 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Irans-Popular-Alternative-to-the-Theocratic-Regime-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Irans-Popular-Alternative-to-the-Theocratic-Regime-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Irans-Popular-Alternative-to-the-Theocratic-Regime.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This indicates how even a low number of media outlets have been able to neutralize the regime\u2019s media machine, and now becoming not only the voice of the Iranian people but encouraging the world to stand alongside the Iranian people and their organized resistance.<\/p>\n<p>This is the status quo of a struggle between the Iranian people against the ruling mullahs. A canvas indicating a lack of legitimacy for the mullahs\u2019 regime in the face of a resistance movement that has been able to establish strong links with the people inside Iran through \u201cnetworks of social media and other outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was crystal clear for Khamenei from the very beginning that his regime has no cure for their crises, leaving him no choice but to order \u201cfire at will\u201d to his forces in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/terrorism\/3612-getting-to-know-iran-s-revolutionary-guards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revolutionary Guards<\/a> and Basij.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the final confrontation between the Iranian people and their Resistance Units on one side against the mullahs\u2019 dictatorship on the other is imminent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered a Hitler-like speech in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Thursday October 4, shedding light on his concerns over <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2018\/10\/18\/iranian-youths-gaining-strength-under-resistance-units-for-regime-change\/\" title=\"Iranian Youths Gaining Strength Under &#8220;Resistance Units&#8221; For Regime Change\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[454,34,436,5],"tags":[127,131,102,150,418,307,518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12171"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12371,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions\/12371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}