Iran’s 19th nationwide uprising against religious dictatorship has now entered its 15th day. For several days, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – known to Iranians as “Tehran’s Dictator” – has effectively issued a massacre order. Cut off from electricity, internet, and phone service, the people of Iran are living through what they call a “silent slaughter.”
Reports coming out through underground channels indicate that more than 2,500 people have been killed, including hundreds of children, with over 5,000 arrested and 10,000 wounded. The crimes of the Shi’ite mullahs have inflicted devastation more brutal than the invasions of Arabs, Mongols, Tatars, Turks, or Russians ever did to Iran.
Despite this terror, Iranians have not retreated.
They took seriously US President Donald Trump’s promise to support the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom. In an unprecedented and symbolic gesture, protesters even renamed a street in Tehran in his honor to express gratitude and solidarity. Trump responded by putting the Iranian regime “on notice.”
The isolated and despised 86-year-old dictator, Ali Khamenei, continues to rant against Trump, the Pahlavi family, and Netanyahu, while the regime’s propaganda machine endlessly rebroadcasts his delusional speeches.
These theatrics cannot hide the truth: the Shi’ite theocracy – more accurately, the Islamic caliphate of the criminal Shi’ite mullahs – has ruled Iran through terror for 47 years.
Young generation supporting Reza Pahlavi
For decades, this regime waged a relentless campaign of lies against Iran’s patriotic and honorable Pahlavi kings. Yet today, after 37 years of Khamenei’s rule, something unprecedented has occurred. Iran’s young generation has risen up with clarity and resolve, calling out the name of the crown prince Reza Pahlavi as the undisputed and unrivaled leader of the national liberation movement.
Across more than 120 Iranian cities, protesters are not only chanting against the regime – they are publicly declaring that the only future option for Iran is Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. This leadership role has not been assigned by foreign powers or political parties; it has been placed on his shoulders by Iranian society itself and by the historical continuity of Iran’s monarchy.
The massive, nationwide embrace of the crown prince shows that he is moving in the correct historical direction. Without exaggeration, the anti-regime uprising unfolding today is likely to become the largest revolution of the 21st century. Iranian society knows exactly where it wants to go – back to its identity, its history, and its national system of Iranian kingship.
Following the crown prince’s call, Iran’s city centers are gradually being taken over by protesters. Simultaneously, President Trump continues to pledge support for Iran’s freedom.
Israel is preparing its cabinet for multiple contingency scenarios. As the mullahs’ regime weakens, the structure of a new Middle East is beginning to take shape.
The closer the possibility of US intervention becomes, the stronger the Iranian uprising grows. The people, even while holding the lifeless bodies of their loved ones in their arms, refuse to retreat. They know this is the final road to liberation, however painful.
The probability of America entering the scene to eliminate the world’s most hated Islamic terrorist, Ali Khamenei, increases by the hour. During Israel’s 12-day war against the Islamic Khomeinist terrorist regime of the Shi’ite mullahs in Iran, President Trump prevented Khamenei from being killed in a humiliating strike.
It appears Trump wanted Khamenei to remain alive long enough to witness the full rage and hatred of Iranian society – and to allow the world to celebrate his eventual death with even greater clarity and justice.
Khamenei himself knows the truth. If the people capture him, his fate will resemble Muammar Gaddafi’s. If America intervenes, his destiny will mirror Saddam Hussein or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. For 37 years, he has thrown Iran into an abyss of destruction, poverty, humiliation, and international isolation, tying the name of Iran to Islamic terrorism.
The world is now waking up to what Iranians have always known: the Islamic caliphate of the Shi’ite mullahs was created and sustained by terrorist networks, a religious octopus feeding off repression and violence.
For 47 years – 10 under Ruhollah Khomeini and 37 under Khamenei – this parasitic system has survived only through terror. Now, for the first time, it is facing extinction.
President Trump has stood courageously against the evil and humiliation embodied by Ali Khamenei, the isolated and blood-soaked dictator of Iran.
History shows that some American presidents are present at defining moments – the collapse of Soviet communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Nazism, or the dismantling of apartheid. During Trump’s presidency, the world may witness something just as historic: the collapse of Islamic terrorism itself.
Khamenei has dismissed the demonstrators as a “bunch of vandals” seeking to “please Trump.” But Trump is not responsible for Iran’s misery. Ali Khamenei is. He spent Iran’s vast national wealth exporting terror instead of building prosperity. And now he feels the walls closing in.
As nationwide anti-regime demonstrations grow more intense, the streets of Iran echo with chants of “Death to Khamenei!” “Death to the dictator!” “Shame on you!” “We are all together!” and “Pahlavi will return!” Some demonstrators carry photographs of Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi as a symbol of hope.
With the internet shut down and phone lines cut, measuring the full scale of the uprising from abroad has become difficult. But the terror of the regime reveals the truth more clearly than any statistic ever could.
The criminal terrorist loving ayatollahs have issued death penalty threats against anyone who protests, labeling them “enemies of God.” This is not the language of a government. It is the language of a collapsing cult.
And cults do not survive when a nation rises.
Iran is rising.
Trump has drawn the line.
History is moving.
Erfan Fard is a Middle East political analyst. His latest book, Tehran’s Dictator, examines the theocratic era of Ali Khamenei (1989–2026). Twitter/X: @EQFard.