Europe and designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization

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0:01 Hello. It is Wednesday, 8 Bahman 1404, January 28, 2026. The false and shameful figures that the regime gives about its own crime are being refuted these days in various ways, and a great deal of evidence and documentation is coming out about the truly horrifying scale of the massacre carried out on the orders of Khamenei himself and at the hands of the treacherous commanders of the IRGC. The current estimate of U.S. expert agencies is that they have so far been able to identify at least more than 28,000 killed, and they say there are more than 290

0:59 thousand wounded, of whom tens of thousands, perhaps more than 10,000 people, are in critical condition. Therefore the death toll may reach 40,000 or even more. These same American sources say there are 44,000 prisoners and that more than 6,500 people have suffered eye injuries. Of course, regarding all these estimates, various newspapers and magazines around the world have different figures, 40,000 people, 35,000 people, mass killings, and they are trying to extract and find the figures. Human rights organizations are likewise working to

1:56 document this crime against humanity, the very charge, the very title, under which the leaders of the Nazi Party were tried at the Nuremberg tribunal. And what in fact awaits Khamenei and the treacherous leaders of his regime, especially the treacherous commanders of the IRGC, is this very kind of Nuremberg tribunal. In any case, full verification and establishing the full dimensions of this crime may take a long time. Just as with Aban 1398 [November 2019], another horrific crime of the regime, it took more than a year until it was finally established that they had killed more than 400 people over a few days. This recent massacre and this

2:54 recent savagery, brutality and ferocity is in fact not only a record among the crimes of the Islamic Republic, but perhaps even among the countries of the world: carrying out such a massacre in the streets and alleys in the span of two days, two or three days, may well be considered a record. The arrest of six members of the House of Cinema and the summoning of a number of others is news coming from this artistic sector of society, and at least two members of the House of Cinema have also been killed. Likewise, various reports are coming in of athletes being killed, detained, arrested and wounded, in various disciplines, from football players,

3:50 wrestlers, martial artists and bodybuilders and so on, which shows, first, the broad participation of athletes in these protests, and also how they became targets of the regime's searing bullets. On another front, the group known as the 17, which includes people such as Jafar Panahi, Ms. Sotoudeh, Ms. Narges Mohammadi and others, has issued a third statement, and in this statement they have called for the trial of the perpetrators and those who ordered this crime: the perpetrators meaning those who held the weapons and killed people, and those who ordered it meaning

4:47 the commanders, all the way up to Khamenei himself, who committed this crime. Abolfazl Ghadiani, a well-known political prisoner who has spent a lifetime in prison, has also issued a strongly worded statement in which he holds Khamenei primarily responsible and calls for him to be put on trial. Likewise, after the dispute that broke out within the Reform Front, as a result of which they were unable to issue a statement, Ms. Azar Mansouri, secretary-general of the Reform Front, has issued a statement on her own, separately, condemning this crime, in contrast to people like Mr. Khatami and some other reformists, who have stood on the side of the regime and are repeating the regime's narratives.

5:43 Meanwhile, the dollar reached the threshold of 160,000 tomans, and the gold coin also hit a record of 200 million tomans. Food inflation passed 60 percent, and Reza Olfat, head of the union of online businesses, said today, 8 Bahman, that these businesses have seen an 80 percent drop in sales because of the internet shutdown and the games that have been played with the internet. It can be clearly seen that the dismal state of the country's economy, which is the result of the bad policies and widespread corruption of Khamenei himself, the Pezeshkian government and the regime's officials, has gotten even worse. And that is natural:

6:40 when there are crises like this, when you open fire on the people like this, kill them, massacre them, economic activity falls into an even deeper recession and in practice the condition of the economy gets worse. Especially since the shadow of a war is also hanging heavily over the country, and in practice there is a state of emergency in the country's economy. Although the government is trying to return things to normal and declare that the situation in the country is normal, in practice, in the real sense, the situation is not normal. Three European countries, Italy, Spain and France, which had previously opposed placing the IRGC on the list

7:40 of terrorist organizations, have each separately announced over the past two days that they agree with placing the IRGC on the list of terrorist organizations. I myself, in an interview, in several interviews with European publications, especially when they asked me, stated that I fully agree with placing the IRGC on the list of terrorist organizations, with two provisos. The first proviso is that those whose military service happens to fall to the IRGC have no choice in the matter and in fact should not be considered IRGC members, and they should not be counted as members of a terrorist organization or as members of the IRGC, which unfortunately is how America

8:37 treats it: those whose conscription happened to place them in this institution fall under the general ruling on the IRGC. The second point I made was that this condition should also be set: anyone who separates from it now, before the fall of this regime, in these times, provided they have not committed crimes, comes off the terrorist organization list, so that in this way there would be a procedure that spreads defections from this institution. As for Mr. Trump, who has become something of an enigma for us, with his repeated and sometimes mutually contradictory statements and the way he changes what he says, today

9:35 he has spoken again, writing in a written statement that if the Islamic Republic does not reach an agreement, the next attack will be much worse, but he has also strongly urged them to come to the negotiating table and negotiate. On the Islamic Republic's side, Mr. Pezeshkian has spoken with Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, and asked them to intervene and mediate, and the messages that Mr. Araghchi, despite his denials, is sending to Mr. Witkoff, saying let us sit down and talk, are matters that show that on that side, too, they are doing their utmost to steer things toward negotiation instead of war.

10:29 Although publicly they bluster and make threats, in secret they are very frightened. And Khamenei, as has been his way throughout all these years, is informed of all these matters, but deceitfully he publicly strikes grandiose revolutionary poses, while behind the scenes he is in fact pushing for them to sit at the negotiating table. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after Qatar, as well as other countries, have stated that if America wages war against Iran, they will not allow their territory to be used, especially the UAE, whose statement on this matter regarding America was harsh. And for this very reason America is bringing its own aircraft

11:25 carriers so that it can carry out operations from there if it wants to. The prevailing atmosphere in the American press is that Trump will carry out an operation in any case, but everyone knows that the final decision will be made by Mr. Trump himself. The oil companies following these developments, as well as hedge funds and investment institutions active in the oil market, speculate that one option may be, like Venezuela, closing the exit routes of Iran's oil tankers from the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman, a so-called blockade, as America did in the case of Venezuela,

12:21 and in effect forcibly bringing oil exports down to zero. Of course, other options are also being discussed, such as a limited military attack combined with a cyberattack and so on, or a heavy, all-out attack in which the political leadership, Khamenei himself, the IRGC commanders, the IRGC's structure and the machinery of repression are targeted. But all of these are speculations; in the end, Mr. Trump will decide. Hoping for the victory of Iran and Iranians.