Following the massive nationwide uprisings of December 2025 and January 2026, the Iranian regime finds itself at a historic impasse. The ruling clerics only managed to maintain their fragile grip on power through the massacre of thousands of protesters.

This vulnerability has been compounded by severe inner turmoil following the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a February 28 airstrike and the highly contested installation of his son, Mojtaba, on March 9.

Amidst this wartime chaos, statements from top regime officials reveal an unprecedented fear of the organized Resistance—the PMOI and its National Liberation Army (NLA)—and mounting panic over mass defections within their own suppressive ranks.

Pleading with the ranks: The fear of defection and the loss of the streets

On March 22, 2026, Ahmad Alamolhoda, the Supreme Leader’s representative in Mashhad, made a desperate public plea, begging the regime’s suppressive forces to maintain their........

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