Public protest and struggle against the government's project of execution and intimidation

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0:01 Hello. It is Wednesday, the 7th of Mordad 1405, July 29, 2026. In the case known as the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan, in which four government agents were killed, a total of 56 people were arrested, and 12 of them were sentenced to death. A trial in which, in fact, no rules of procedure and no principles were observed, together with confessions extracted by force and torture, has brought 12 people to the foot of the gallows. Last week two of them, Erfan Esfandiari and Golmohammadi, were executed, and yesterday at dawn

0:58 they set up scaffolding in public to execute Abolfazl Fazl-Sepahi Badjani and Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi as well. In fact, with these medieval methods the regime is seeking to terrorize the people. But yesterday people gathered from before the morning call to prayer, and their chanting turned this ceremony of intimidation into a protest by the people. The special unit agents, who attacked people with tear gas and motorcycles, dressed in black and so on, were met with slogans. In fact, the regime got the opposite of what it wanted. The anger that has flared up among

2:01 activists, among ordinary people, within civil society, and among many strata of society over these medieval methods and these ways of terrorizing the people is growing moment by moment. Three political prisoners, Abolfazl Ghadiani, Reza Valizadeh and Mohammad Najafi, issued a joint statement from inside prison in which they wrote that the rulers want to rebuild their lost authority by increasing executions. In any case, human rights activists, international organizations,

2:54 the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, and dozens of other bodies and organizations have issued various statements calling for a halt to the executions, and a broad effort is under way to save at least the remaining 8 people from the gallows. Meanwhile, the Statistical Centre of Iran has published its new report on developments up to the month of Tir. This report shows, first, that in the spring of this year, spring 1405, the country's employed population decreased by at least 450,000,

3:50 and the number of people looking for work rose by half a million, reaching a total of two and a half million people seeking jobs. Full-time employment fell by 1.3 million, to 17 million people. Part of the loss was offset by job growth in agriculture and services, but the loss of 629,000 industrial jobs left a net balance of 450,000 jobs lost.

4:48 In fact, nearly half a million people have become unemployed, above all in the industrial sector. The US and Israeli attacks on more than 300 of the country's factories have disrupted the production chain, and factories and production units are forced to let their workers go. On the other hand, this army of the unemployed, which grows larger day by day, faces inflation that has gone from chronic inflation to severe inflation, whose next station is in fact hyperinflation. According to economists,

5:41 the annual inflation rate over the past 12 months across all goods in the country has been announced at 66 percent, and that is even though they usually leave some goods out of the basket and calculate others at the same subsidized rate. In any case, prices of consumer items in Tir show an 88 percent increase over Tir of last year, which is close to 100 percent, nearly double. And food in people's basket of consumer items has risen in price by 129 percent, that is, 130 percent, compared with Tir of last year. Economists have repeatedly warned that

6:41 at this rate, with the country's liquidity having now passed 18,000 hemmat, that is, 18,000 trillion tomans, at least another 4,000 to 5,000 trillion tomans may be added to it by the end of the year. This is the huge avalanche that is coming down the mountain, and the numerous deficits, the various problems, falling tax revenues and so on make this avalanche bigger every day. This is what will bring triple-digit and four-digit inflation. Meanwhile, after five nights of a halt in the fighting between Iran and

7:34 America, this time it was the Islamic Republic that attacked a US base in Jordan last night by firing ballistic missiles. It also used a drone to hit a gas storage ship belonging to an American shipping company in an Egyptian port, setting it on fire, as it was full of gas, and the fire spread to the ship next to it, which is also American. So this time the Islamic Republic started the fighting and broke the five-day pause. On the other side, the United States and Saudi Arabia attacked Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi at several points today, Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of 20 Hashd members and

8:36 the wounding of dozens, and 4 IRGC members were also killed. The Saudis stated that during this period of regional troubles there had been more than 600 attacks from Iraq by the Hashd al-Shaabi on Saudi Arabia and various other places, and that this attack was in retaliation for those. In fact, it seems that the Israelis, the Saudis, others, and the Americans have all put suppressing the Islamic Republic's proxy forces and confronting them on their agenda. But this is one of those things that can spread the fire of war to the whole region, something that perhaps

9:33 the Islamic Republic itself desires. Mr. Ali Zaidi, the prime minister of Iraq, who was supposed to travel to Riyadh tomorrow, has also canceled his trip. This is what is called asymmetric warfare, which in my view is a respectable name for terrorism. It has been one of the two main pillars of the Islamic Republic's defense policy in case America got into a fight with it. The first was the nuclear project, the assumption being that if they got within a screwdriver's turn of a nuclear bomb, America would not launch a conventional attack on Iran, which it has now done, pounding Iran from the air for at least several months. But the second was in fact

10:32 building up these proxy forces in the region so that they could wage asymmetric, or terrorist, war in the region. With the emergence of drones and cheap missiles and the ability to guide them, one can say that asymmetric or terrorist warfare has been equipped with tools it did not have before. And this kind of confrontation with proxy forces in the region, and dragging these conflicts into the region, is probably exactly what the Islamic Republic wants. Interestingly, on the other side, Mr. Israel Katz, Israel's defense minister, has said that our job is half-finished, in short, that America has held us back,

11:27 and that if it lets us go, we will strike Iran's infrastructure. Iran, for its part, has said that whenever you strike my infrastructure, I will strike the infrastructure of the Arab countries on the Persian Gulf coast. This way the intensity of the war in the region rises, and of course its destruction will fall on Iran and the other Arab countries of the region. It is a situation in which, if reason does not prevail on all sides and this futile war is not stopped through prudence, the outcome will perhaps be that, except for Israel, which may have a strategy of destroying Iran, setting the countries of the region against one another, and living in security itself, though even that is doubtful,

12:24 which of course will not turn out that way either, the rest of the region will be losers, and the most damaging outcome of all will be for Iran and Iranians. Interestingly, on the other side, Russia is also applying pressure by claiming that Ukraine has also carried out operations from Iraq in all this, and that there are Ukrainian terrorists. Even after Ukraine's attack on an Iranian ship, Mr. Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said that it is Iran's right to retaliate for this action by Ukraine. In fact, they are pushing Iran toward getting into a conflict with Ukraine too, and as I said before, the result would be that Iran would then end up in conflict with the entire

13:22 European Union as well, which is in Russia's interest. Also, Reuters reported today that China is to give Iran 400 shoulder-launched missile systems. Despite all of China's denials, and although it constantly says the war should stop and apparently takes a very peaceful position, this could indicate that China too, behind the scenes, is pushing for these conflicts and troubles with America and the region to be intensified through Iran. Interestingly, when a Reuters reporter asked Mr. Trump about this report today, he said it was very surprising,

14:20 because Mr. Xi himself had told me that we will not give weapons to Iran under any circumstances. Hoping for the victory of Iran and Iranians.