Month: February 2026

The recent demonstrations in Iran that may have killed more than 5,000 civilians and security officers changed from largely peaceful to violent when a number of “agitators” got involved and sought to turn the gatherings focused on the poor economy into a drive to bring about regime change. It has been suggested that the sometimes-armed outsiders who stirred the pot were organized and trained by foreign intelligence services, most specifically the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli Mossad. In the event, the apparent plan to bring down the Iranian government failed when Tehran’s own intelligence and security services were able to intercept and decode the Starlink communications that the plotters were using after the phones and internet were turned off. Armed with information on who, what when and where the authorities were able to make mass arrests and shut down the planned insurgency.

Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Masoud Barzani warned against any move to target Kobani (Ayn al-Arab), the last point held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in eastern Aleppo’s countryside (northern Syria).

Speaking at a press conference in Italy on Friday, 23 January, Barzani said Kobani is “a Kurdish city that must not be touched,” adding that he would do “everything necessary if the Kurds are attacked.”

Les justifications de la guerre avec l’Iran ne cessent de changer. Ce sont d’abord les armes nucléaires, puis les missiles conventionnels, puis les manifestants, et maintenant c’est de nouveau le cas des armes nucléaires. Il semble que la guerre avec l’Iran soit en soi l’objectif, et ils inventent simplement des excuses pour y parvenir.

EU foreign ministers agreed Thursday to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist” group, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said.

“Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise,” she said.