“Those who burned our Husseiniyahs (religious halls) are now trapped in the fire of the Husseinis’ wrath.” This is nothing new. The regime has always conflated its hegemony with obedience to Allah. For years, it has charged dissidents and protesters with the crime of spreading corruption in the land, a Qur’an-based (5:33) crime that was vague enough to be applied to all manner of behaviors, but that always drove the point home that disobedience to the regime was disobedience to Allah.
“Regime Propaganda Uses Religion to Justify Massacres and Blame ‘Zionists’ and ‘Spies,'” by Ata Mohamed Tabriz, Iran Wire, January 29, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
On January 18, as the true scale of the Islamic Republic’s massacre of protesters was only just beginning to break through the wall of censorship, Tasnim News Agency – an outlet tied to the IRGC – released a music video titled “Ham-khoon” (“Of the Same Blood”). It was the opening act of what can only be described as forced empathy. The regime reaches for a tone of shared pain, putting words in the singer’s mouth like, “Like you, I loathe the chains of this discrimination.” But the gesture lasts only a moment. Almost immediately, the message hardens into a claim of ownership: “your only remedy is within this home.” Asking people to remain inside a “home” whose walls are soaked with the blood of its own citizens is not reconciliation – it is a last-ditch effort to piece together a legitimacy already destroyed by catastrophe.
Tasnim is one of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ main propaganda outlets. When it produces so-called “artistic” content, it isn’t culture – it’s psychological warfare. These productions are designed to erase the line between the nation and the regime, pushing the idea that criticizing the government is the same as turning against your own home.
However, at a deeper level of this propaganda, the state’s apparatus drops the mask of “shared blood” through the words of government-backed Maddahs (religious eulogists), revealing the naked face of suppression. Saeed Haddadian, a prominent state eulogist, justified the crimes by reframing a political protest as a religious war: “Those who burned our Husseiniyahs (religious halls) are now trapped in the fire of the Husseinis’ wrath.” This rhetoric, which labels critics as “fatherless veil-tearers” and “lapdogs of the White House,” signifies the regime’s ultimate strategy: hiding the killing machine behind a mask of “epic bravery” and “religious zeal.”
Maddahs are not just religious singers; in the Islamic Republic, they are influential political actors with direct ties to the Office of the Supreme Leader….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, this is one of the few times the islamic regime is not lying, and where most Iranians would happily confirm this allegation. To list:
⮞ Anything from 60-80% of them would happily not merely concede, but claim, that they are enemies of islam. Among the many slogans I’ve seen on video, aside from Javid Shah and Pahlavi bemigarde, are slogans insulting Muhammad, Ali, Fatima, Hussein and the rest of the clan
⮞ They would also happily concede that they want to overthrow islamic rule in Iran. There is even a popular slogan that runs “No true muslim is Iranian, and no true Iranian is muslim”, and some even want to ban islam altogether. As Armin Navabi noted, Iranians are the world’s #1 islamophobic country
I know that the islamic regime is saying all this to curry favor w/ muslim countries, such as Pakistan and Turkey. But it’s the one true thing they’ve ever said. Once this revolution succeeds, then aside from Israel, there will be an Iran-shaped hole near the frontiers of dar ul islam
In other news, Iran has officially released the names of close to 3000 people killed in the unrest. The real numbers are probably north of 36,000 all over that country
PRCS USN (ret) says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
If that really is “If” deathly suppression of the protesters who only want their baise natural human rights are the “enemies of Islam” then the Islamic Republic of Iran has proven by its horrific massive carnage of the people demanding their human rights and freedom that Islam is a evil oppressive human rights death -inflecting religion . in other words, If the people are really “enemies of Islam” then they are in the right and righteously in the right and just for opposing is religion that is an oppressive murderous human rights denying death cult.
Whatever the case may be, the facts of reality are that those cruel murderous despots who are now in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran have tortured too many people who were only after their basic human rights ,and have shed too much innocent blood , to start playing “Let’s make a deal ” with President Trump and his administration
Therefore, those tyrants need to be brought to justice and severely punished.
Westman says
The key to releasing the Iranian people from being herded like cattle with lethal prods is the destruction of the IRGC centers and the seminaries of Qom where the brain-washers and religious administrators, who approve the “herding” violence in the name of diety, are made.
“Guarding the Revolution” has exposed itself for what it really is – keeping the dictator in power, stealing the citizen’s wealth, using that wealth to make weapons, and spreading both weapons and money to regional terrorists.
Iran has a gangster Regime, a wolf in religious clothing.
OLD GUY says
The so called religion of Islam is the protector of the dictatorship that totally suppresses the people that live under their rule. As always it’s all about money and power over others. Sadly these so called Devine leaders think they have the right to decide the living conditions and who lives and dies under their rule.
Walter Sieruk says
That Iran’s Islamic tyranny propaganda machine called those people who are only demanding their basic human rights “enemies of Islam.”
That brutal oppression of the Iranian people provoked them to revolt. That horrendously bloody and evil Islamic regime of Iran with its very unjust executions of so many good people who are courageously standing up against an horrific tyranny of evil that denies human beings their natural God given rights that should have never been taken away from them in the first place.
Therefore, if they really are “enemies of Islam” that doesn’t mean that those protesters aren’t good decent God fearing people
First that Islamic tyranny of Iran has been and still is , as anyone can see a “murder factory,” Truly wicked that Islamic regime is that state terror has proven itself to be regime of Satan..
As Jesus taught “”Every good tree bears good fruit, but a but a bad tree bears bad fruit… by their fruits you will recognize them.” Matthew 7:17,18.19. 20.[N.I.V]
Second, the religion of Islam does acknowledge that Jesus is a prophet and a truth teacher, but no more than that. The point is that Jesus taught “”Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit… by their fruits you will recognize them.” Matthew 7:17,18.19. 20.[N.I.V]
Connecting the Wisdom found in the Bible and comparing it to that vicious death inflecting tyrant Ayatollah Khamenei , the Bible reads in Proverbs 28:15. Which reads, “Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.” [N.I.V.]
Likewise, that ruthless oppressive tyranny of is a reflection of the Bible in Proverbs 15;15 reads “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.”
Furthermore, in Ecclesiastes 4:1 it is written “I saw the tears of the oppressed – and they have no comforter; power is on the side of the oppressor.”
Hopefully , God will use President Trump, as a comforter , as His tool to aid the Iranian people in their righteous and just endeavor to overthrow that Satanic Islamic regime of Iran and establish an legitimate , genuine government in Iran which respects human life and safeguards the God given human rights which all people should have.
James Lincoln says
Please – either Israel or the United States – light that candle!
PRCS USN (ret) says
Agree, with a caveat:
How many Iranians really are opposed to Islamic rule?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
80% of the population, from what I’ve seen on Iran International as well as Iranian talking heads, like Tousi and Ghamari. The litmus test here is how many Iranians have left islam. 6 years ago, that number was 60%, but according to Goldie Ghamari, today that number is 80%. That tracks closely w/ the claim that only 20% of Iranians are left supporting the regime