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Iran: Khamenei faces absolute deadlock in the face of waves of Iran protests.<\/strong><\/p>\n Written by\u00a0Mansoureh Galestan<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a018 January 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei led Tehran\u2019s Friday prayer sermon for the first time in after eight years on Friday, January 17, which demonstrates\u00a0the importance\u00a0of recent developments for the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n The developments include the regime\u2019s intentional\u00a0shooting down of a passenger jet<\/a>, the\u00a0popular demonstrations<\/a>\u00a0which followed this crimes and\u00a0regime\u2019s failed attempts to portray war criminal,\u00a0the eliminated Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)\u00a0Quds Force<\/a>\u00a0commander\u00a0Qassem Soleimani<\/a>, as a national hero.<\/p>\n Repeating lies about \u201cmillions\u201d of people taking part in state ceremonies held for\u00a0<\/span>eliminated\u00a0<\/span>terrorist<\/span>\u00a0Qassem Soleimani, Khamenei\u00a0<\/span>desperately tried to\u00a0<\/span>reduce concerns<\/span>\u00a0among the regime\u2019s forces and prevent\u00a0<\/span>the increasing defection from his regime.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As the regime\u2019s highest authority, Khamenei\u2019s remarks over\u00a0the IRGC\u2019s intentional downing of a Ukrainian airliner,\u00a0which left 176 innocent people killed,\u00a0once again confirms\u00a0his culpability in this crime and\u00a0that it was not a mistake. He also tried to downgrade this\u00a0crime\u00a0and said\u00a0\u201cThey attempted to portray this in a manner\u201d to cloak the state ceremonies for Soleimani and the regime\u2019s missile attack targeting military bases housing U.S. soldiers in Iraq.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Outraged by the Iranian people\u2019s hatred toward\u00a0his regime and particularly torching of Soleimani\u2019s pictures Khamenei said, \u201cThose few hundred people who insulted the image of Qassem Soleimani.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a>\u00a0said in a statement on Friday, simultaneous with Khamenei\u2019s speech,\u00a0defiant youth<\/a>\u00a0and members of the\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK)<\/a>\u00a0\u201cResistance Units<\/a>\u201d, \u201ctorched posters of the eliminated terror master Qassem Soleimani in different parts of Tehran and in other Iranian cities, including Kerman,\u00a0Zanjan,\u00a0Iranshahr,\u00a0Fassa,\u00a0Lahijan, Tabriz, Zahedan,\u00a0and Masjed\u00a0Soleiman.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Mohammad\u00a0Mohadessin, chair of the NCRI\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee, took position over Khamenei\u2019s desperate speech. He wrote on\u00a0Twitter, \u201cIn gathering\u00a0Bassiji\u00a0thugs across the country, Khamenei tried to confront the crippling blow with the termination of Soleimani and chants of death to Khamenei, and IRGC you\u2019re ISIS by millions of Iranians. He displayed his deadly impasse & increased the nation\u2019s rage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Referring to the regime\u2019s institutionalized terrorism, which Khamenei confirmed in his speech; and the Iranian people\u2019s determination to topple this regime\u00a0<\/span>Mr.\u00a0<\/span>Mohadessin<\/span>\u00a0wrote, \u201c<\/span>Nevertheless, he admitted that the main task of\u00a0<\/span>Qods<\/span>\u00a0Force\u2019s crime is to secure the regime\u2019s stability inside Iran. He described millions of Iranians who chant \u2018neither Gaza nor Lebanon, my life only for Iran,\u2019 as beguiled and unwilling to sacrifice for his despicable regime<\/span>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"