The Knife Within: How Iran’s Secular Elite Enabled the June 12 Strike Below is a rewrite of a video by 阿冉 on Bilibili/YouTube. I strongly advise Chinese to follow him for indepth knowledge of Iran. In a single night, Israel executed a brutal decapitation strike on Iran’s nuclear elite.... Through billowing smoke, the military suffered one blow after another: Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami; Chief of General Staff, Mohammad Bagheri; Deputy Chief, Ali Rashid — all obliterated. Even top nuclear scientists like Dr. Abbas and Dr. Tranchi were taken out in pinpoint assassinations. Iran’s nuclear command was wiped clean. The Mossad's precision was astonishing. Has Iran been so thoroughly infiltrated that it’s become a sieve? Otherwise, how could Israel have obtained such top-secret intelligence? Has Iran really been riddled with American and Israeli spies? The answer is "Yes". Without a doubt. In fact, "infiltrated like a sieve" doesn't even begin to describe it. Half of Iran might as well be American or Israeli agents. The Supreme Leader Khamenei’s granddaughter studies in the U.S. Iran’s top officials use iPhones. Their government emails run on Gmail. If Qassem Soleimani wasn’t assassinated, or Hussein wasn't targeted — that would’ve been the real surprise. But here’s the twist: it wasn’t the Mossad or the CIA that turned Iran into a sieve. It was Iran itself. To be specific — Iran’s secular elite. What outsiders see as foreign infiltration is, in fact, internal warfare. And the one who planted the seeds of this civil war? None other than the father of the Islamic Republic himself: Ruhollah Khomeini. Video is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His family controls a business empire of USD 95 billion.show more

Khomeini. 1979: The Fracture of Revolution When the 1979 Islamic Revolution broke out, Khomeini, exiled in France, returned to Tehran in triumph. But with Khomeini’s rise, Iran was torn in two: On one side, the clerical theocracy, led by Khomeini. On the other, the secular elite, represented by the leftist Tudeh Party. During the revolution, the clergy and the leftists were allies. But once victory was secured, Khomeini launched a brutal purge. The Tudeh Party was decimated, and Khomeini stood alone at the top. But in doing so, he made a fatal mistake: By destroying the left, he left behind only right-wing secularists, many of them pro-American. Worse still, the ferocity of his purge planted a seed of distrust: “You can’t trust these clerics. Side with them, and you’re next to be eliminated”. Thus, the secular camp swung hard to the right. Even with his iron grip, Khomeini lacked one thing — guns. Revolutions are not built on divine slogans. Power grows from the barrel of a gun (Mao Zedong). And Iran’s military at the time? Loyal only to the Shah. Khomeini could command God, but not the army. Then, in September 1980, Saddam Hussein gave him the perfect excuse: The Iran-Iraq War. Under Iraqi fire, Iran’s military rallied behind the clerics. Khomeini purged the Shah’s officers and built a new force: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Shah army's upper leadership was decimated. It was stripped of political power. The old army was wiped out, and the new one answered only to him. But the war was catastrophic — over a million dead. In 1982, Khomeini launched a suicidal “Islamic kamikaze” offensive. 13-year-old boys were handed plastic “keys to paradise” and sent to blow themselves up against Iraqi lines. Twenty-one thousand children became human bombs. This was holy war in its most fanatical form. The video is of Khomeini.

The Rise of the IRGC Business Empire After the war ended in 1988, Iran launched a new campaign: the “Shia Crescent” — Hezbollah in 1982, Shia rule in Iraq by 2003, Syria in 2011, the Houthis in 2015. For over two decades, Soleimani’s Quds Force blazed a path of blood across the region. While the clergy sacrificed lives in jihad, the secular elite suffered the economic consequences. But what truly enraged them wasn’t U.S. sanctions. It was this: The IRGC grew rich and powerful — stealing the secular elite’s wealth. Iran’s power structure is a battlefield in real time. I (阿冉）once met a Chinese businessman in Mashhad who traded minerals with the IRGC. Pointing to a giant poster of Soleimani, he spat: “These so-called anti-American heroes? They’re a joke. Their houses are piled high with U.S. dollars. The IRGC isn’t a military. It’s a corporation. And a very greedy one at that.” He wasn’t exaggerating. The IRGC runs Iran’s minerals, energy, and foreign trade. Its oil smuggling network disguises Iranian oil as Iraqi oil, selling it globally through a front company: Al-Muhandis Group — a conglomerate that also dominates Iraq’s infrastructure. Even my (阿冉) war correspondent was shocked: “Baghdad looks like Las Vegas.” Every skyscraper? IRGC-built. As that Chinese trader put it: “Holy warriors my foot. Try religious capitalists. The ‘Axis of Resistance’? It's a business network.” The IRGC’s empire squeezed Iran’s private sector dry. Companies linked to it — like Khatam al-Anbiya Construction HQ and the Martyrs' Academy — crushed the competition. Thirteen of Iran’s top construction firms went bankrupt. From the secular elite’s perspective: The IRGC stole our business, destroyed our careers. Who cares about national unity? If taking down the IRGC means cooperating with the enemy — so be it. Today’s assassinations don’t shock Iranians. They see it as karmic retribution. The elite in Iran and Iraq live in luxury and opulence. Right video is Baghdad and the left is Tehran.

Khomeini’s Dual Power Structure What shocked me most was this: Khomeini himself laid the foundation for Iran’s internal chaos. He invented something called Velayat-e Faqih — rule by Islamic jurists. In practice, this meant the clergy held ultimate authority, but governance was left to secular elites. Think of it like this: The clergy are the emperor behind the curtain. The seculars are the prime ministers doing the real work. Why? Because chanting “Allah is great” doesn’t make nukes detonate. Clerics can preach, but they don’t build. So Khomeini built a two-tiered system to balance power. But he forgot one thing: balance means diversity. After exterminating the left, all his secular elites were right-wing, pro-West. There was no longer any internal check and balance. The supreme leader couldn’t balance what had already aligned. Khamenei, his successor, turned out to be a capitalist in Islamic garb. He paid lip service to jihad while building a business empire. The “Shia Crescent” turned into a “Shia Corporation.” He lacked Khomeini’s charisma and couldn’t control the powerful clerics in Qom. So he fed the IRGC with cash, weapons, and power — buying silence and consent with guns. Today, Iran’s power pyramid rests on a three-way balance: 1. Khamenei’s clerical group (itself fractured); 2. The military-industrial IRGC bloc; 3. The pro-American secular elite. From the outside, it looks like foreign infiltration. But from within, it’s one faction weaponizing America and Israel as knives — to take down the IRGC. Who's right? Who’s wrong? None of them. They're all just bureaucratic capitalists with different slogans. _ _ _ Side note: An Iranian on X says "Don't expect Iran to admire China. We are a nation of master traders, whereas China is a nation of communists”. What he said is true. The Iranian elite are master traders bleeding the country dry. However What is not true is that today the uncontested master trader is China being the biggest trading partner of 150 countries in the world. _ _ _ When Mossad struck down Iran’s nuclear elite in one sweep, I (阿冉）asked a friend in Iran: “Who’s leaking to Israel?” He gave a chilling answer: “It’s Khomeini.” Not the man himself — but his clan.

The Four Great Families of Iran After 30 years of rule, Iran’s elite has ossified into four dynasties: 1. The Khamenei Family: Supreme Leader Khamenei’s clan dominates Iran. His elder son is the rumored successor. His younger son controls the intelligence agencies. They run vast religious foundations with astronomical funds. Ex-president Raisi (now dead in a plane crash) was family by marriage. Ironically, Khamenei’s granddaughter studies in New York. 2. The Rafsanjani Family: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president from 1989–1997, helped Khamenei rise. His family controls oil, finance, and Iran’s largest foundation — Imam Reza Foundation — with wealth rivaling nations. His son, Mohsen, chairs Tehran’s municipal council. 3. The IRGC Business Complex (Soleimani Complex): The IRGC turned into a boardroom. Soleimani’s Quds Force was Khamenei’s personal guard. IRGC-linked companies, like Khatam al-Anbiya, operate like Alibaba. Generals wear uniforms; their families wear London-tailored suits. 4. The Khomeini Family: Initially all-powerful, with relatives controlling intelligence and the IRGC. But when Khomeini died, Khamenei swiftly purged them. By 2011, they were disgraced in a smuggling scandal. Rumors abound: the Khomeinis turned to the U.S., hoping to reclaim power.

A Nation Torn, A Revolution Reversed Unity? In Iran? A myth. The poor live on $30 a month. The rich? They party in gated palaces, eat $15 rice, and sip $40 vodka. Religion is a public performance: pray thrice a day, pause when passing the Supreme Leader’s portrait. Soleimani’s death? Some wept like children. Others whispered: “Islam isn’t Iran’s faith — it’s the Arabs’. Only fools would believe.” Even as the regime rages against the West, its elites hoard dollars. Iran has not changed. From 1979 to 2025 — 46 years — it’s been a loop of ruin. As Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich put it: It's “Secondhand Time.” Iran's 46-year revolution mirrors the Soviet experience — a revolution whose promise turned into disillusionment, and whose official narrative stands at odds with people’s lived reality. Like in the USSR, the slogans remained, but the spirit was hollow. People live in “secondhand time” — a time of aftermath, decay, and borrowed glory. From one heap of rubble to the next, Iran marches. Victory is a myth conjured by the Supreme Leader. To bury believers deeper into the mud of doctrine. For the secular elite who can’t be brainwashed, the theocracy offers bribes, positions, nationalism. But loyalty can’t be bought. The secular elite stopped believing in God, And certainly never believed the clerics. Without iron will, the clerical regime crumbles under American-Israeli fists. That's why they are hardliners. Thus, the seculars became insiders leaking to the outside. Mossad’s blade — swift and precise — cut straight to Iran’s hardline heart. Starting with Soleimani. So folks, if a regime change happens, don't be surprised.

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Iran is between rock and hard place. US and zionists dont care if Iran is secular or religious, liberal or conservative. It's all same to them. It's a piece on a chessboard to squeeze China. They want it parcelized and chaotic.

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