Iran Regime Could Fall ‘Any Day’ as Rebels Seek Arms: Sources
Iranians are preparing for potential revolution with cached weapons and protest tactics following January's crackdown that killed thousands, according to anti-regime sources.
Opposition figures in Tehran have warned that the Islamic Republic could face an imminent revolution driven by a population demanding retribution for the brutal crackdown in January, which President Trump stated claimed 52,000 lives, as David Spector reports in New York Post.
A revolution can happen any day now, a protest leader inside Iran declared, describing widespread determination among Iranians to settle accounts with the regime responsible for mass killings of demonstrators.
An independent journalist operating underground in Iran confirmed that resistance networks are actively preparing for the next wave of protests, with activists across Iranian society resolved to deliver what they hope will be a final, crushing blow against the theocratic government.
Both sources communicated with Western journalists via cellphone using VPN technology to evade regime surveillance.
Tactical Preparation and Hidden Arsenals
The journalist detailed systematic preparations underway, including analysis of January’s protest movements to identify successful tactics and mapping exercises to locate safe assembly points while avoiding high-risk areas.
Iranian resistance networks have reportedly cached rudimentary weapons and barricading materials throughout the country, including bricks, rocks, wooden clubs, chairs and tires intended for blocking roads when mass demonstrations resume.
More concerning for the regime, small clandestine cells are working to obtain firearms for distribution to protesters, drawing on weapons hidden in private residences and smuggled across Iran’s borders, the protest leader claimed, though she did not identify potential suppliers.
The contrast with January’s bloodshed drives current preparations. The protest leader described demonstrators as defenseless victims facing overwhelming Basij militia firepower, with streets transformed into killing grounds littered with corpses and flowing with blood.
Her message to regime forces carried unmistakable intent: the next time Iranians take to the streets, they will come armed.
Trauma and Foreign Mercenaries
The psychological devastation from January’s massacre, when thousands of unarmed demonstrators were gunned down, remains the principal factor preventing immediate mass mobilization, both sources indicated.
Virtually every Iranian family has suffered losses, the protest leader noted.
The regime has reinforced domestic repression by importing foreign mercenaries through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to supplement security forces.
These foreign operatives conduct aggressive vehicle stops and searches of Iranian citizens, the independent journalist reported.
The protest leader expressed outrage that outsiders patrol Iranian territory as though native-born Iranians were invaders, while the regime wages war against its own population rather than defending national sovereignty.
The journalist also reported the regime has armed teenagers as young as 13 or 14 years old for neighborhood patrols, a development he characterized as a catastrophe in waiting.
War, Executions and Economic Collapse
Ongoing regional conflict has generated additional uncertainty among activists unsure how extensively the United States will strike regime targets and assets, though President Trump announced Saturday he suspended planned attacks as peace negotiations showed promise.
Internal regime fractures have already surfaced, with approximately 2,000 protesters demonstrating in Isfahan against the public executions of anti-regime activists Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amir Hossein Safari Hosseinabadi, according to the journalist.
Severe inflation combined with electricity and water shortages in southern provinces are intensifying popular rage against the mullahs.
Economic conditions have deteriorated to the point that middle-class Iranians are skipping meals daily, the journalist said, with food available in stores but priced beyond most citizens’ reach.
Neither source could predict precisely when a nationwide uprising will erupt, but both emphasized that continued executions, repression and economic hardship mean any single incident could ignite the powder keg.
The protest leader’s assessment was stark: either the regime falls, or the opposition will be eliminated.
With information from New York Post
