Examining infiltration of the military, intelligence agencies, and the Supreme Leader's office

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0:01 Hello. It is Wednesday, 28 Aban 1404, November 19, 2025. The Hengaw news agency in Kurdistan has reported that Farzad Khoshbarsh, a political prisoner in Mazandaran, was killed under torture in a Ministry of Intelligence detention center one week after his arrest. Signs of beating, wounds and bruising were seen on his body, and today Mizan news agency, which is affiliated with the Judiciary, also confirmed this young man's death. Farzad was arrested over his critical videos, his political protest and his posts. With this death under torture,

1:01 another crime has been added to the regime's crimes. Farzad's family has also been threatened. At the burial ceremony, intelligence agents went with cameras and filmed, and afterwards they banned the family from speaking to the media. Meanwhile, the British newspaper The Telegraph, in a long article by Afshin Madadi, has raised various issues about Iran. But the main issue, which also appears in the article's headline, is infiltration in the country's intelligence agencies and the suspicion and mistrust that has spread through the highest levels of the regime.

2:02 After the 12-day war, it was clear that anyone who had survived should be suspected. The issue of infiltration escalated sharply within the Islamic Republic's institutions. Interrogations, summonses and close scrutiny of files began in military bodies such as the IRGC, the Quds Force and the IRGC Intelligence Organization, and in the Office of the Supreme Leader itself. Many people have been arrested and interrogated. Interestingly, the corruption and the infiltration by foreign intelligence services, including the Israelis, is even

2:56 worse than what The Telegraph wrote. In fact, people turned up in the General Intelligence Protection Organization itself who were infiltrating agents of, or collaborators with, foreign services, especially the Israelis. This is the body under Khamenei's personal supervision that is responsible for safeguarding the country's intelligence. It is effectively the country's overall counterintelligence, and it is supposed to monitor members of the military, intelligence and other agencies so that foreign agents do not get close to them or recruit them. As the saying goes, "When something rots, they salt it; but woe to the day the salt itself rots." In other words, spies have turned up inside the supervising body itself.

3:58 On top of that, dozens of people have so far been arrested and interrogated in the IRGC, in the intelligence apparatus, in IRGC Intelligence, at various security levels, in the Office of the Supreme Leader, and elsewhere. Some sources reported, for example, that three brothers were all arrested: one served in the IRGC Quds Force, one in the Office of the Supreme Leader, and the other in the Ministry of Intelligence. But why has the regime reached the point where even its most confidential sections are worm-eaten and rotten like this, and people there are willing to hand the country's intelligence and secrets to foreigners?

4:56 In fact, three reasons can be given. The first reason is that the people's disbelief in, and turning away from, Khamenei personally, his system, the system of the Islamic Republic and the system of Velayat-e Faqih, which has reached 92% of the people, has spread inside the regime's institutions too, and has even entered its most confidential sections. Many members of the Intelligence Ministry, IRGC Intelligence and so on no longer believe in either the Islamic Republic or Khamenei personally, and they believe that his crimes and wrong policies have brought the country

5:49 to this point. The second reason is that corruption has spread like cancer through every pillar of this system. Living pressures are rising and inflation is climbing, and every employee and everyone in the country who draws a salary faces financial need. When it comes to the intelligence, security and military agencies, their members see that while their salaries do not cover their living costs, a small handful at the top of the regime, at the top of their own agencies, are steeped in huge corruption, and billions, not of tomans but of dollars, go into their own accounts and those of their privileged sons and

6:47 families. Ayandeh Bank is not one or two cases. People like Ali Ansari, who was the man running everything around Mojtaba and handing him money, are just one example out of hundreds in the country. So when these people see that the country's assets are being sold off like this, and that a gang of thieves under the cloak of Khamenei himself, with him at their head, are plundering the people's property, then, whenever they have the chance, they too use whatever tool or commodity they have in hand. They sell confidential information to make money, or they collaborate and get paid.

7:41 But the third reason, which is perhaps more serious than the other two for the survival of the regime, is the uncertainty about the future and the prospect of the regime's collapse that they can see. This is the same mindset found in most people, who are waiting for the country to change. The poll conducted by ISPA, the Iranian Students Polling Agency, in cooperation with Mr. Pezeshkian's office and with the help of the Ministry of Intelligence, showed that 92%

8:31 are dissatisfied with the current situation, want change, and want a change of government. This same mindset has spread to those running the intelligence, security, IRGC and Supreme Leader's Office apparatus and elsewhere. They understand that the country is pregnant with change, and that this change will move in a direction where tomorrow they may even fear for their own lives. An American diplomat once told me that in Pakistan, during the last two years of the Soviet government, KGB members at first began coming to the US embassy one by one to sell their information and get money. The Americans

9:30 were very happy and even sent extra officers to the embassy to collect this information and pay a few thousand dollars. But later, this diplomat said, these approaches became so numerous that it was no longer possible to collect them all or respond to them. That was one of the clearest signs that a regime's own functionaries had lost faith in it. Even KGB members had lost faith in its survival, and it was collapsing. This third factor has now taken hold in the regime's most confidential places too. In any case, all these investigations and analyses show that we are at a sharp

10:31 historical turning point, which more than anything requires vigilance, unity and planning, so that we can pass through this sharp turn and this mountain pass safely and with the least possible damage. Now, Mohammad Mahdi Sedighi, son of Kazem Sedighi, who was accused of financial corruption, land grabbing and document forgery, was also involved in the cases of two hotels in Mashhad and more, and had been detained for a while, died of cardiac arrest in his own home, not in prison. Khamenei offered his condolences to Sedighi, and this shows that the corruption of this family still somehow enjoys Khamenei's approval.

11:30 Meanwhile, the President of Lebanon, Mr. Joseph Aoun, has revealed details of his meeting with Ali Larijani. He said he told him explicitly that the Shia of Lebanon are my responsibility, not yours, and the second time he did not give him an appointment. Even during Larijani's trip, Mr. Nabih Berri, the Shia Speaker of Parliament, refused to meet Ali Larijani. Aoun stressed that no group in Lebanon is allowed to have weapons separate from the state or to use foreign backing as leverage. In any case, according to Aoun, Larijani was so angry that his legs were shaking,

12:24 and he then left the presidential palace, still shaking with anger. However, these words and this treatment by the Lebanese president have not stopped the wickedness of Khamenei and the Islamic Republic. According to a deputy at the US Treasury Department, over the past year the Islamic Republic has given more than $1 billion to Lebanese Hezbollah to rebuild itself, and has in effect once again pushed Lebanon, whose people want Hezbollah disarmed, to the brink of civil war. Hoping for the victory of Iran and Iranians.