(Al Jazeera) Al Jazeera (Jan 19, 2026): The regime’s “CIA/Mossad did it” narrative
They say the CIA and Mossad are behind the deaths during protests. Fine. Then answer:
- If the CIA/Mossad can “operate freely” inside Iran, why don’t they ever show up at government-organized rallies?
Why not strike there—where officials gather, where cameras are everywhere, where security is thick? - Why do “foreign enemies” only appear during civilian protests—never at state ceremonies, state marches, or regime events?
Why is it always when ordinary people protest that “outside agents” suddenly arrive? - Where are the names, arrests, evidence, trials?
If the claim is true, show the chain: suspects → proof → court → verdict.
If there’s no evidence, why should anyone treat it as anything but propaganda?
(Amnesty International) Amnesty International (Jan 8, 2026): Lethal crackdown and confirmed killings (Dec 31, 2025–Jan 3, 2026)
Amnesty reported at least 28 protesters and bystanders (including children) killed across 13 cities in four days, describing unlawful use of force and firearms.
- If foreigners killed these people, why do human rights investigations keep documenting state forces using lethal force?
- If your job is to protect the people and the country from enemies, where were you, when people were dying across multiple cities?
Were security forces absent… or present and “unable to stop it”? - If thousands were supposedly killed by foreign agents across hundreds of Iranian cities, what does that say about the regime’s control, competence, and legitimacy?
Either you failed to protect people,
or you were there and responsible.
(Amnesty International) Amnesty (Jan 9, 2026) + Al Jazeera (Jan 16, 2026): Internet blackout starting Jan 8, 2026
Amnesty and Al Jazeera both reported a nationwide internet/telecom blackout beginning January 8, 2026 as protests intensified.
- If your story is true, why did you shut down the internet when the country needed visibility most?
- If foreign enemies are responsible, wouldn’t transparency help you prove it?
Why does “truth” require darkness? - What exactly are you trying to prevent the world from seeing, if not your own forces’ actions?
(Le Monde.fr) Le Monde (Feb 3, 2026) + Iran Human Rights (Jan 25, 2026): Crackdown on medical workers treating protesters
Reports describe intimidation/arrests of medical workers for treating injured protesters.
- If “foreign agents” caused the injuries, why are doctors and nurses being threatened or detained for treating the wounded?
- Why do injured citizens fear hospitals?
What kind of “protector state” turns medical care into a risk? - If your goal is public safety, why punish the people who save lives?
Dead bodies: the question that collapses the “foreign enemy” excuse
- If the CIA/Mossad killed these citizens, why did the state treat bodies with disrespect?
Why load bodies into trucks, leave them on roadsides, and tell families to “go find your loved one”? - If these were “victims of foreign enemies,” why weren’t they treated like victims, honored, documented, protected?
Why did it look like the system was trying to dispose of evidence? - Why were families treated like suspects instead of citizens in mourning?
If the regime is innocent, why intimidate grief? - Why do funerals and mourning gatherings trigger repression?
If your hands are clean, why fear people crying in public?
“Bullet money”: if you didn’t shoot, why are bullets in the bill?
- Why are families asked to pay for bullets or ammunition costs?
If you didn’t fire, why is there a bill? - If the regime says “we didn’t kill anyone,” whose bullets were used?
Show the inventory logs. Show the chain of custody. Show the ballistic matching. - How can the regime deny shooting, while charging people as if state weapons were used?
When the accounting contradicts the denial, who should the world believe?
Plainclothes and deniable violence: who are the armed men inside the crowd?
- Who are the plainclothes individuals inside crowds with radios, knives, machetes, pistols?
Who commands them? - Why no uniforms? Why no visible IDs? Why no accountability?
Security without identification is not security. It’s deniable violence. - When someone suddenly stabs or attacks in the chaos, how can anyone know if it’s a foreign infiltrator, a state agent, a provocation, or a criminal?
If you blur identities, you manufacture confusion, and then you blame outsiders.
(Amnesty International) Amnesty (Jan 2026): “Largest nationwide protests since 2022” + crackdown framing
Amnesty describes the protests beginning Dec 28, 2025 and the blackout/crackdown context.
- If this is “foreign-made chaos,” why does the state respond with nationwide collective punishment, mass arrests, blackouts, lethal force, rather than transparent investigation?
- If your narrative is solid, why do you need intimidation and censorship to maintain it?
(Amnesty International) The credibility question: why should the world trust a regime that won’t allow sunlight?
Al Jazeera framed this as a “narrative war,” with the state blaming outsiders while others attribute responsibility to state forces. And Amnesty documented shutdowns and a deadly crackdown.
- If the regime lies about bodies in the street, why should the world trust its statements on anything else, agreements, inspections, “peaceful intentions”?
- If the state refuses independent investigation into protest deaths, what is it protecting, truth, or impunity?
(Yahoo News) Toronto Police (reported via CBC/Yahoo, Feb 2026): “150,000 demonstrators” and “zero incidents”
Toronto Police said there were 150,000 demonstrators and “zero incidents.” (Yahoo News)
- How did 150,000 Iranians protest peacefully in Toronto with “zero incidents,” but protests inside Iran turn deadly?
- What changed, the people, or the system?
The people were Iranian in both places.
So why does violence follow the regime, not the people?
The question every foreign government should ask before doing business
If a regime lies about bodies in the street, what else will it lie about?
- If you cannot be transparent about killings in your own cities, why should anyone trust your assurances on anything , agreements, inspections, nuclear claims, or “peaceful intentions”?
- If you shoot unarmed citizens and then blame outsiders, why should the world treat your statements as credible?
When a regime lies about bodies in the street, it’s not a “PR mistake.” It’s a governing strategy. Because once you can erase a death, you can erase responsibility, and then you can erase reality itself. If they lie about bodies in the street, what else will they lie about?
When a regime lies about bodies in the street, it isn’t protecting national security , it’s protecting impunity. And once impunity is protected, everything becomes negotiable: evidence, courts, media, medicine, even the definition of truth.
That is why the world cannot treat this regime as a credible partner. You cannot “verify” promises from a government that falsifies death itself. If they lied while the bodies were still warm, why would anyone believe them when the stakes are higher , on inspections, on agreements, on “peaceful intentions”?
The international community must stop rewarding this behavior with recognition, business-as-usual, and polite statements. At minimum: isolate the officials and institutions behind the violence, expand targeted sanctions, amplify independent investigations, and protect Iranian refugees and diaspora activists. And the world should also prepare real protection mechanisms for Iranians who are being hunted at home , urgent humanitarian support, secure communications, and coordinated international pressure designed to deter further killing and give civilians a fighting chance to survive.
If the world keeps trusting a regime that lies over corpses, it teaches that regime the same lesson: kill, deny, repeat , and nothing changes. And it doesn’t stop at Iran’s borders. The IRGC’s external arm, the Quds Force, is widely documented as running overseas networks and supporting armed groups beyond Iran, which is why the United States designated the IRGC (including the Quds Force) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and why U.S. counterterrorism authorities describe the IRGC-QF as an external operations threat. A regime that can lie about dead bodies in its own streets can lie about anything: evidence, investigations, treaties, inspections, and “peaceful intentions.” That’s why negotiations that rely on trust are not diplomacy , they’re a trap. Even now, as President Donald Trump presses for a nuclear deal and warns Tehran to make a deal or face consequences, the central question remains the same: what is a signature worth when the signer has no limit to lying? Any agreement that isn’t built on airtight verification and real enforcement is just paper , and paper doesn’t stop a regime that has already proven it can rewrite reality, even when the bodies are still warm.
This is Mohsen Rafighdoost (محسن رفیقدوست), a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) minister, openly admitting his role in orchestrating the assassinations of Iranian dissidents across Europe , including high-profile figures killed in France and Germany.”
In a rare public interview, Rafighdoost described how the regime and IRGC used hit squads and outside networks to eliminate opponents abroad, revealing the IRGC’s international terror operations and showing why the world must not underestimate this threat.
