ژورنال سایت خبری سیاسی ژورنال
PDF-English Journal-2 July 2025-No14
Ebrahim Jabbari, an advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, stated: “Saying that the Supreme Leader is under pressure is not correct.”
This may well be the final battle for the Islamic Republic’s survival. Beyond the crushing political, cultural and economic pressures bearing down on the regime, there is one more element that could deliver the ultimate blow to its existence: the extreme duress under which Khamenei now lives, hidden away for fear of his own safety. This is not a matter anyone can afford to trivialise.
The very fact that a senior military official of the regime has publicly insisted that the “Leader is not under pressure” reveals the depth of crisis the Islamic Republic is entangled in.
Naturally, the regime’s top brass will continue to beat their chests and boast of military might until their dying breath. But what is crystal clear is the utter impotence of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces and the regime’s broader inability to confront its enemies with any credible strength.
In the short term, the regime’s strategy is posturing and bluff. It seeks to dominate the psychological and intellectual space of society by increasing checkpoints and threatening dissidents with the harshest judicial sentences. This is its final weapon in its confrontation with the people.
A government with genuine popular backing can endure the most severe military pressure and draw strength from its society to defend itself. The condition for this is that the government belongs to the people and serves them—a society in which corruption and the plundering of lives have no place; where people enjoy wellbeing, freedom, and happiness, and where the equality of human beings is the foundation of public life. In such a system, where citizens are at the centre of power, they can and will defend themselves against any threat.
The crimes of the Islamic Republic are infamous. This regime, engulfed in one crisis after another, is incapable of standing up to foreign adversaries, and even less able to face a revolutionary society within. Whether the Supreme Leader lives to see the day of the Islamic Republic’s downfall, whether he dies a lonely death in his bunker, or whether some unforeseen force takes him out—none of it matters much. This regime will fall—brought down by the will of a revolutionary people in Iran.
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