Akbar E Torbat
AS it appears, a Western imperialism military coup has been underway to topple the theocratic government in Tehran to rip apart Iran and install a temporary puppet government headed by Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran.
In April 2023, the Zionists invited Reza Pahlavi to visit Israel, where he met with Benjamin Netanyahu, Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president, and its Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel.[1] On June 9, 2025, his daughter Iman Pahlavi wed Bradley Sherman, a Jewish businessman, in a lavish Paris wedding.[2] Sherman is head of partnerships at commercial drone delivery company Matternet, located in Mountain View, California.[3] The marriage further warmed up Reza Pahlavi’s relationship with the Zionists to act as their collaborator and to be crowned Reza Shah 2.
The Plan for the Coup
The plan for the coup has been in the making for months by the Zionist regime. Some Mossad agents entered Iran from the northeastern borders with fake passports. According to the Iranian Truckers Association, the “infiltrators” were able to hire some naive drivers active in the nation’s transport fleet to implement the Mossad project. In May 2025, a nationwide truck drivers’ strike was managed, and it spread throughout Iran for a few weeks. Reza Pahlavi continuously supported the truck drivers’ strike in his speeches via social media. The truckers’ strike provided a cover for the Mossad to smuggle the explosive quadcopter drones’ parts to be assembled in Iran. The drones’ parts and explosives transported in trucks and shipping containers crossed the borders and were assembled to be ready in their position for attacks. Israel had trained some team leaders in third countries, and they, in turn, trained agents in Iran to do the operations. [4]
Operation Rising Lion
The coup went into operation on June 13, 2025, by the Zionist regime under the code-named “Rising Lion.” In the first hours of the attack, a dozen top commanders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, as well as nuclear scientists and university professors, along with about 250 civilians, were killed. This was a highly coordinated terroristic assassination in recent history. According to the Jerusalem Post, Iran’s nuclear scientists were killed in their sleep. Israel obtained their location addresses from apps on their cell phones as well as the information received from its fifth column in Iran. Iran accused Meta Inc., the owner of WhatsApp and Instagram, of sharing user data with Israel for espionage, though the company denied.
Some two hundred planes from Israel invaded Iran’s aerospace. The teams on the ground hit dozens of missiles to prevent them from being launched in the early hours of the attack.[5] Subsequently, some upper part of the Natanz nuclear facility was bombed by Israel. The Arak Nuclear Complex in Tehran, which contains a 40MW heavy water nuclear reactor, was bombed. The Isfahan nuclear site was struck in central Iran, with further explosions reported in the oil-rich Khuzestan province. A number of non-military locations, including the Radio and Television building, were bombed.
The coup is being financed by the American taxpayers and results in profits for the US “industrial-military complex.” Each missile interception costs about $20,000, and the war costs about $200 million per day, according to WSJ.
As of this writing, the death toll in Iran has risen above 430 people and 3056 injured, some cortically, according to the Iranian Health Ministry. In Israel, 24 people have died as a result of Iranian strikes.[6]
Iran’s Counterattack True Promise 3
Despite losing some of its top commanders, Iran’s military did not lose its morale. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) immediately retaliated to the US-Israel preemptive attack under the code name Operation True Promise 3. IRGC initially fired a couple of hundreds of missiles and drones on the occupied territories on Friday and overnight Saturday, June 13-14. IRGC was able to penetrate Israel’s multilayer protection of the so-called Iron Dome, and some missiles and drones hit a number of strategic places in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Iran showed its military edge technology as it used some of its advanced missiles, including hypersonic missiles that created extensive property damage throughout Israel and specifically around Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Inside Iran, the Iranian defenses have so far shot down over 200 drones and 2 F-35 fighter jets.
IRGC claimed it was able to paralyze Israel’s defense. It conducted massive cyber operations against the Zionist regime and gained control over its internal communication networks.
Before the attacks, Iran informed residents of Haifa and Tel Aviv to leave. On the morning of June 18, Iran launched some hypersonic missiles to hit Haifa and Tel Aviv, which hit their targets with high accuracy. Iran’s advanced missiles, such as “Fattah-1 Hypersonic Missiles, are lethal and unstoppable. The Iranian ballistic missile strike demolished some buildings, including the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot—vital scientific research in Israel, and Ben Gurion Airport.[7] As of this writing, some parts of Tel Aviv and Haifa have been destroyed.
Iran has not yet used its naval power, which is equipped with submarines and fast-moving boats. It can block the Strait of Hurmuz and other shipping lines in the region. Citing international conventions, Iran’s parliamentarians announced if the Zionist regime’s attacks continue, transportation restrictions should be imposed in the Strait of Hormuz. Furthermore, Iran’s parliament is preparing a bill to leave the nuclear non-proliferation treaty if the situation deems appropriate.
During this time, foreign media outlets, specifically “Iran International,” a television station, acted as a mouthpiece to propagate pro-imperialist propaganda to support the coup. So far, the coup has strengthened support for Iran’s military to defeat Zionist regime aggression. Historically, Iranian nationalism has always united Iranians against foreign invaders. Political observers believe that the Islamic government cannot be uprooted by means of foreign military operations. Also, Western-sponsored attempted soft power coups in 2009 under the so-called “Green Movement” and “Woman, Life, Freedom” in 2023, which failed to change the regime.
Iran has arrested 18 Israeli Mossad agents, including the arrest of a few foreign mercenaries who were involved in the Zionist regime’s attack on the home of officials. The mercenaries had sent the location addresses of the Iranian officials via WhatsApp before the explosions. For each activity carried out, $2,000 was deposited into their accounts abroad.
The US Role in Atack on Iran
The Trump administration used the “Nuclear negotiations” as a cover for Israel’s preparation to attack Iran under the pretext of preventing it from manufacturing nuclear weapons in the future. The US, via Israel, wants first to disarm Iran and then rip the country apart as a grand strategy to block China’s influence in the oil-rich region. The ultimate objective of the coup was frankly published in an editorial in the Jerusalem Post on June 18, in which the paper asked President Trump to “Encourage long-term plans for a federalized or partitioned Iran.”[8]
Former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn said the US goal was to overthrow Iran’s government, as the US wanted to isolate China in a new cold war. This is a joint Israel-US war on Iran with the cooperation of the Western European powers. They support the war on behalf of the West. They provide all kinds of capability support to Israel to attack Iran.[9]
Failing to destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Israel begged the Trump Administration to directly join the invasion and use the bunker buster bomber B2 stealth planes to destroy the Furdo nuclear facility, which is under a huge mountain. Four B-52 nuclear bombers were prepared for launch from Diego Garcia. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, advised Trump not to join the Zionists’ aggression war against Iran.
US B2 bomber planes are big enough to deliver a 30,000lb precision-guided bomb, known as a Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, that can penetrate with a sheer kinetic force deep in the ground (about 100 feet) of rock and soil. On June 21, the New York Times reported about 30 tons of explosives were dropped on the Fordow nuclear facility. The United States is now directly in a state of war with Iran to expand its imperial hegemony.
Under the present circumstances, the US military bases in the region have become legitimate targets of Iran’s missile attacks. Iran’s military forces need to be prepared to prevent the coup and defend the country against Western imperialism.
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[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/19/son-of-toppled-irans-shahs-israel-visit-draws-mixed-reactions
[2] https://www.thejc.com/news/world/iranian-princess-marries-jewish-businessman-in-lavish-paris-wedding-wqvzirys
[3] https://www.matternet.com/newsroom
[4] https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-israels-mossad-smuggled-drone-parts-to-attack-iran-from-within-633516a9?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
[5] How Israel’s Mossad Smuggled Drone Parts to Attack Iran From Within?
[6] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-israel-conflict-news?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_1
[7] https://english.almanar.com.lb/2441947
[8] https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-858111
[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0s7O8RU9V0
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