Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei eyeing ‘escape plan’ after deadly protests hit new heights, with more than 2,300 people detained
Iran’s religious dictatorship was under immense pressure last night due to nationwide protests and an internet blackout.
While buildings were being set on fire, cars were overturned and screams of ‘death to the dictator’ were being shouted in the streets, it was said that the country’s Religious Leader was making plans to leave the country.
According to Donald Trump, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ‘wanted to go somewhere’ and Moscow was seen as a possible haven.
Desperate to save their tyrannical regime, Iranian clerics cut off the country’s 90 million citizens from the world last night, even resorting to military technology to block Elon Musk’s Starlink service.
The protests spread to 31 provinces, with internet access reduced to 1 percent, phone lines cut, and payment systems shut down.
According to human rights activists, the death toll since the uprising began two weeks ago rose to 62 yesterday; More than 2,300 people were detained.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, the heroic protesters said they had “nothing to lose” due to the living conditions in the country after 50 years of religious rule.
Khamenei blamed Trump for triggering the riot and accused protesters of ‘destroying their own streets’ to please the US President.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (pictured). It was said that the Ayatollah was making plans to leave the country in an environment where buildings were set on fire, vehicles were overturned and there were screams of “death to the dictator” in the streets.
Iranians on the streets of Tehran. According to human rights activists, the death toll since the uprising began two weeks ago rose to 62 yesterday; More than 2,300 people were detained.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022. Iran’s Supreme Leader is said to be eyeing Moscow as a possible safe haven in case the Islamic Republic falls
In his first speech since the protests began, he told state television: ‘Trump’s hands are stained with the blood of Iranians. This man said that he ordered and ordered. So he admitted that his hands were stained with Iranian blood.’
Khamenei said the regime would not tolerate ‘vandals and rebels’ acting as ‘mercenaries for foreigners’. Mr. Trump has repeatedly threatened to launch a military operation against the Tehran government if protesters are killed.
On where the Supreme Leader will be in the future, Mr Trump said: ‘[Russia] or somewhere, he wants to go somewhere. It could be [on the verge of collapse]. They started taking people’s lives in the past.
‘Or they took them to prisons and hanged and killed them. I told them that if they do this we will hit them hard, we are ready to do it.’
Last night Downing Street called on Iranian officials to ‘act with restraint’. Britain’s former security minister, Tom Tugendhat, predicted that it was a matter of when the regime would fall rather than if.
In an interview organized by the Lotus Advocacy think tank, an Iranian protester said they were arrested, adding: ‘I was detained for several days and repeatedly mistreated. We are suffering.
‘Protesters are being shot with live ammunition and the injured are being detained in hospital beds. ‘This is a war waged by the government against its people.’
The exiled son of Iran, the late Shah of Reza Pahlavi, who lives in the USA, requested support from Trump yesterday.
Hundreds of Iranians are on the streets of Tehran. Khamenei blamed Trump for triggering the riot and accused protesters of ‘destroying their own streets’ to please the US President
Posting on X, he said: ‘Ali Khamenei… threatened to brutally repress people. Please Mr. President, be ready to intervene.’
His father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was deposed by the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Pahlavi was appointed to power in 1953 after the CIA and MI6 overthrew prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh after he nationalized Iran’s oil industry, which was previously controlled by Britain.
65-year-old Reza Pahlavi, who left Iran at the age of 15, may receive US support to return and come to power. He already promised a democratic future to all Iranians.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said last night: ‘We stand with the Iranian people who want a secular, democratic Iran.’
