For months, Iran’s ruling establishment tried to bury one of the most consequential security breaches in its modern history: the major operation carried out by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) against Ali Khamenei’s heavily fortified headquarters in central Tehran on February 23, 2026. Now, a regime-affiliated Telegram channel, Didban-e Enghelab, has effectively broken that silence. But in typical fashion, its admission has come wrapped in conspiracy, factional score-settling, and a desperate attempt to shift responsibility onto rival factions inside the regime.

The significance of this admission lies not in the channel’s fabrications, but in what it was forced to concede. The regime had previously sought to minimize or obscure the scale of the clashes around Khamenei’s compound. Yet Didban-e Enghelab now refers to the events of that night and acknowledges that an operation took place shortly before the outbreak of the 40-day war. In doing so, it confirms the very reality the regime had tried to suppress: that the PMOI was able to strike at the heart of the system’s most protected centre of power.

According to the PMOI/MEK’s own announcements at the time, the operation began in the early hours of Monday, February 23, 2026, around the Motahari Complex, the compound that includes Khamenei’s headquarters and a cluster of strategic institutions of the regime. These........

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