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3/9/2026 The Siege of Iran: Imperialism, Propaganda & the Playbook of Empire By: Sasan JaliliRead Now THE BLACKOUT MASSACRE CLAIM The claim is the Iranian government used the internet blackout to massacre up to 90000 protesters in the 2-3 days it took for the riots to die down. This claim falls apart immediately if you just think for 2 seconds. A Temporary internet shutdown does absolutely nothing to hide the evidence of mass murder. Even without the internet people still had cell phones and the ability to record atrocities and upload the moment connection returned. If the government was systematically killing tens of thousands of people in the streets, there would surely be indisputable video proof of this genocide by now. The lack of this evidence itself is proof against the claim, since everyone has a cell phone. Instead, we are met with a barrage of fake and AI generated photos & videos, over-dubbed audios of people chanting "Pahlavi", pictures of victims that are still alive or don't even live in Iran. All the familiar Israeli Hasbara propaganda we saw during the early days of the Gaza genocide. THE REALITY OF CHAOS AND DEATHS Just to be clear, I am not suggesting that no innocent people were killed. During any violent episode anywhere in the world, you would expect a significant increase in opportunistic crimes and murders, crossfire victims, and law enforcement abuses. This is all in addition to government forces using excessive force to put down riots or getting into shootouts with armed insurgents. Nevertheless, the government has published their list of over 3000 deaths with names and ID numbers. I assume they are running their own propaganda as well and would want to minimize the number. But since the ID numbers are published it can be verified properly. I would expect the same from organizations that claim the number is much higher. The GrayZone's Max Blumenthal has done a meticulous deep dive into where these exaggerated numbers originated from. It took only 2-3 days of internet blackout for the riots to die down. Though the blackout itself continued. Short of hard video evidence of genocidal government forces going on a rampage (which I am open to, given evidence) this itself suggests that the violence was being directed from outside. If rioting and destruction were even remotely organic, with or without the internet local groups would spontaneously continue their activities. But no, it seems they were lost without the direction of their outside handlers. LOGISTICS OF THE MASSACRE On the number of deaths, I must say, it is physically and logistically impossible to kill 30000, 50000 or 90000 people in 2 days, trying to put down urban riots, short of aerial bombardment. To put it in perspective: --during World War II, the Allies carpet bombed Dresden for 3 days. Annihilated the whole city killing 25,000 people. --The Israelis leveled Gaza for 3 years using Palantir AI for maximum efficiency and killed 80000 officially, though much higher unofficially, as many were lost under rubble and were never recovered or documented. People who repeat these numbers have no real grasp of the level of destruction required and the historical precedence of such operations. It's all just numbers to them and if they can add another zero to help their cause, they will. Because it's all propaganda. THE JACKALS OF EMPIRE In 2009 The Brookings Institute, a US policy Think Tank published their Iran strategy paper "Which path to Persia". Though many of the strategies were already at play covertly long before publication. They systematically laid out all the various tactics of regime change that can be utilized in Iran. From sanctions to creating internal Networks of operatives. From agitating for demonstrations to co-opting and turning them into riots. From arming separatists to military interventions by Israel and the United States. From tools of propaganda to using diplomacy as a ruse. The Israelis and Americans have already admitted to having agents on the ground inIran, directing, recruiting and organizing. There were anonymous figures in Europe paying rioters for every uploaded video of the destruction they had caused that could be used for propaganda. The planners must have known the strategy of destroying infrastructure would not get grassroots support from the masses. So, the only goal must have been to draw in The Americans/ Israelis. That is all. FALSE FLAGS AND RED LINES Then like clockwork, Trump announced that his "Red Line" was if the government commits massacres. That was a green light to all the Regime change agitators to increase the death toll to usher in American bombing. So, who had greater incentive to kill as many people as possible? We had seen this script before. --This is exactly what happened in Syria when Obama said the Red Line is the use of chemical weapons. All the al-Qaeda and Isis operatives started staging fake chemical attack scenes with real dead bodies that they had killed before. They even smuggled in the ingredients to make their own poison gases to bring the Americans in. False flag killings have been repeated over and over again in every color Revolution. In Ukraine there were agent snipers on the roof of buildings shooting the protesters and police alike, just to fan the flames of violent confrontations and turn demonstrations into uprisings. Intelligence agencies, especially CIA, MI6 and Mossad have been doing this for decades and have it down to a science. ENGINEERED SUFFERING The suffering of the Iranian people is real, but it is primarily due to decades of sanctions, boycotts, embargoes and Siege Warfare against the country. The stated purpose of these economic weapons against any country is to suffocate the population first and foremost, not the government. If the people starve enough, the hope is, they will revolt against their government. Historically this has never really worked. However, it does set off a chain of events internally, the logic of which is to degrade society. THE SHADOW ECONOMY AND CORRUPTION Sanctions, embargoes and removal from The Swift international payment system, means that now the country must do all their trade, in the shadow economy, setting up shell companies that are vulnerable to seizure by host countries, dealing with all types of unsavory and mafia-like figures. This cultivates corruption since the only way to trade with the world is to grease a lot of palms. Internally a new class of oligarchs will emerge, the ones who facilitate the international trade of the whole nation in the shadow economy. These powerful people get rich because of the sanctions, so it is to their interest that it continues. They inevitably form a fifth column that internally sabotages any possible resolution and normalization. And so, corruption trickles down throughout society as it degrades. Mismanagement, nepotism, shortages and inefficiency necessarily follow. And so, the material conditions are set for foreign recruitment as more will be willing to accept bribes to sell their country out to nefarious forces. This is all predictable and very intentional, as it is the cookie cutter playbook of economic hitmen. These are the actual goals of economic sanctions. It sets off a cascading chain of events that culminate in a degraded, suffering and fractured society. It is the most inhumane collective punishment, and it should be illegal. FROM DEMONSTRATIONS TO RIOTS All of this is at the economic end. Imperialism also has political chaos and insurgency playbooks in their toolbox. In the case of Iran, they have been arming and training the Kurdish, Baluchi, and Arab separatists as well as MEK for over a decade. They have Mossad/CIA operatives and assets infiltrated deep within Iranian society for many years. Possibly even in the government and the military. They can activate them at opportune moments to wreak havoc and chaos. Opportune moments like in January 2026 when they crashed the Iranian currency. As the US Secretary of Treasury, Scott Bassent admitted and took credit for, they deliberately crashed the Rial through external manipulations. People rightfully started demonstrating as their life savings disappeared. Agents and assets were activated to co-opt the peaceful demonstrations and turn them into violent riots that burned down buildings, buses, cars, fire trucks, ambulances, mosques etc. One must contemplate why ordinary citizens would burn city buses, fire trucks and ambulances. It's for maximum death and destruction. It is the handy work of external forces. Done by the professional jackals of the Empire. Not people who actually live there. FROM RIOTS TO INVASION If all else fails, they will use their military to destroy all internal infrastructure and institutions to fracture the society and turn it into a failed state with roaming Warlords like in Haiti and Libya. In the case of Iran, military action started on February 28th. If arial bombing doesn't cause the government to fall ( and it will not) they will activate their separatists to be their boots on the ground. They may have to send their own boots later. At this point the goal will no longer be regime change. It is to turn Iran into a failed state and balkanize it into several weak statelets. Iran has withstood the west's onslaught of sanctions, blockades, sabotage, assassinations and regime change attempts for over 40 years. It has fiercely defended its sovereignty against all odds. The price has been the suffering of its people. The US and the West are the architects of the Iranian people's grievances. The hardships that plight the nation are drafted in their strategic blueprints. There is no logic in begging these same architects to violate the country in order to solve the problem they intentionally created in the first place. THE DIASPORA'S HISTORIC ROLE If Iranians, living in the West, do not address these fundamental issues, and do not use their political capital to expose and pressure the US government to loosen the noose around Iran's neck, because of their hatred for the Iranian government, then they cannot claim that they care for the Iranian people living in Iran. If The Iranian diaspora is passing out sweets and celebrating in the streets of the US and the West, cheering on and demanding that their adopted countries drop bombs on their people as their home country is being systematically dismantled, balkanized and devoured by truly evil forces, they should be called out and exposed as servants of imperialism. This has been the historic role of the diaspora in the West. To Prime citizens in the West to support their government's military adventures and frame it as fighting evil unpopular governments. This was true with the Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Cuban, Iraqi, and Syrian diaspora. Whenever any government stands in the way of imperialist goals the voice of their particular diaspora gets amplified to neutralize anti-war sentiments. The Iranian diaspora must therefore be analyzed within this historic framing. The anti-government Iranians in the West would probably claim that they don't support bombing Iranian people, but surgical bombing for regime change; that the US and Israel respect the Iranian people and want the Iranians to be free. The distinction between Iranian people and the regime is a meaningless one to an invading army. It is the Empire's cynical attempt at getting the population to do their bidding with the least amount of resistance. Once this utility fails and the people do not revolt against their government then the empire's mask will come off, all pretenses will disappear and they will start to target civilian infrastructure and civilians themselves. Its form is its function. TO KNOW A THING, SEE WHAT IT DOES We have already seen Israel say Hamas is the enemy, not the Palestinian people, as they indiscriminately killed the population of Gaza. Or when they say they are fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon as they annihilate whole villages. It is their "Dahiya Doctrine", the military strategy of large-scale destruction of civilians and civilian infrastructure. The US was saying that Saddam Hussein was a dictator in order to hide behind the veneer of humanitarianism . They said the Iraqi people will welcome us with flowers. Yet they carpet bombed Baghdad and other cities, committed atrocities at Mosul, they were systematically torturing, and used depleted uranium that contaminated the soil and water to the point that in some cities doctors are still telling women to not get pregnant due to prevalence of deformities in newborns. Up to a million people were killed in the first few years of the occupation. Take Libya as another example in recent history. Libya was the most prosperous country in Africa until the US and NATO destroyed it because their leader Gaddafi wanted to create a pan-African gold backed currency. The Empire of High Finance could not allow that. So, they turned it into a failed state with open slave markets, stole their gold reserves, destroyed their desert water irrigation system, emptied their armory and sent all the weapons to Syrian resistance that became ISIS. Then they did the same thing to Syria. So, the question that needs to be answered by the Iranian diaspora is when was the last time the United States overthrew a government and the country became a bastion of democracy? The goal of imperialism remains as it always was. To take control of resources and to castrate the subject nation so that they can never challenge its hegemony. If the people of Iran organically rise up and overthrow the government, I will be all for it. Let the voices of the downtrodden be heard. But I don't see that. I think the people have legitimate complaints due to the economic situation brought on by siege warfare as well as corruption and mismanagement that inevitably follows. But I don't see the grassroots support to overthrow the government. If there was, Israel and the United States would not have to constantly try to sow the seeds of rebellion with their Mossad agents, NGOs, sanctions, and the whole propaganda apparatus spinning narratives. THE LAST STAGE OF CAPITALISM The United States is in trouble. Their petrodollar system is being challenged by alternative trade organizations. The only reason the US can keep printing money without ending up with hyperinflation is because the dollar is the world Reserve currency. More and more countries are trading with each other in their own currencies, without the dollar. This is an existential problem for the United States. At the same time China has overtaken the United States as a manufacturing hub, has surpassed the US in GDP PPP (purchasing power parity) and is racing the US for control of AI. The United States is doing everything it can to slow down China's economic growth. They try to sabotage Shanghai cooperation and the Belt and Road initiative. Iran is essential to China's belt and Road initiative. This is the real reason the US wants to overthrow the Iranian government. For example, On Sep15th 2022 Iran signed the memorandum of obligations as a permanent member of the Shanghai Cooperation organization. On Sep 17th, 2022, the Mahsa Amini demonstrations started and escalated. All the usual suspects were involved. Color revolutions are a weapon of war to be used against governments that do not bend a knee to the global hegemon. The United States may be satisfied to have a friendly puppet regime in Iran that keeps China out. But I believe Israel would prefer a failed state that can never recover, as they have their own messianic goals in addition to being an imperialist outpost. They see Iran as the only country in the Middle East that can be a regional power and potentially threaten their ultimate goal, the Greater Israel Project. It is to Israel's interest if Iran breaks up or remains permanently weak and can never be a threat to their future plans. Taking their apocalyptic vision into account, I will not be surprised if they escalate to dropping nuclear bombs on Iran If all their other manipulations don't pan out. In conclusion, late-stage imperialism of the United States and its sidekick Israel have become the greatest threat to the future of humanity. The dying Empire is lashing out unpredictably. It has turned into a Death Star, leaving behind chaos and destruction in order to extract what it needs just to continue a bit longer. It is the duty of all politically conscious people to resist its policies, expose its propaganda and to be a loud voice against its injustices. Archives March 2026
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