The Forward Backs Up Tousi About What's Going On In Iran

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

Tehran, Iran A picture obtained by AFP on Sept. 21, 2022, shows Iranian demonstrators burning a rubbish bin in the capital Tehran. AFP/Getty Images 
             

The Forward played it carefully, calling it a protest.  Out of a touch of memory loss for words, I called it "War." for it sounded more like a war to me.  It's common for writers to call it things like a rumble or protest.  The Forward (Yiddish: פֿאָרווערטס, romanized: Forṿerṭs), formerly known as The Jewish Daily Forward, is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper,

Iranian cities are engulfed in anti-regime protests, the largest in several years. Initially sparked by economic frustration, the demonstrations have quickly expanded to include broader grievances — particularly anger at Iran’s foreign policy. 

One chant heard repeatedly in videos circulating from inside Iran captures that anger succinctly: “Neither Gaza, nor for Lebanon — my life is only for Iran.”

Many protesters are also calling for the return of the Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled Iran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Videos shared online show protesters chanting slogans in favor of the former monarchy or displaying symbols associated with it, including the pre-revolutionary Iranian flag.

Now, protesters in Iran are kissing their lives good-bye, knowing they can be shot for it and evidently the government has been doing a lot of that.  So I believe they are calling it a Revolution in their own language because both will be punished the same-with death.  Iran has had many Revolutions, and this one seems to be the biggest-even though no one here recognizes it as such.  

It wasn't that long ago when this Revolution happened:  The 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini (also known as Jina Amini), died on September 16, 2022, after being detained by Iran's morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. Her death sparked the nationwide "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests/revolution that same month, challenging the Islamic Republic's mandatory dress code (September 2022)  Remember that.  

Today, many Iranians see a collapsing economy. On Dec. 28, the Iranian rial — the country’s currency — plunged against the U.S. dollar, intensifying a long-running economic crisis marked by soaring prices and an annual inflation rate of around 40 percent. (Their rial is worth nothing.  The young people have no money, jobs, water, or food.  They don't have much reason to live.

• Reports indicate a network linked to Israel has been working to shape the narrative of the protests, including hijacking hashtags like #FreeThePersianPeople, to support the uprising.  (Protests, now uprising, it's all the Revolution!  
• From 
  Shimon Sherman

  Shimon Sherman is a columnist covering global security, Middle Eastern affairs, and geopolitical developments. His reporting provides in-depth analysis on topics such as the resurgence of ISIS, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, judicial reforms in Israel, and the evolving landscape of militant groups in Syria and Iraq. With a focus on investigative journalism and expert interviews, his work offers critical insights into the most pressing issues shaping international relations and security.
• January 16, 2026:  Over the past three weeks, a wave of protests has swept across all 31 provinces of the Islamic Republic and threatened to extinguish the flame of Khomeini’s revolution. 
• At first, the strike of the merchants at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar seemed a natural expression of frustration with Iran’s collapsing economic position, but these minor civil disturbances quickly flared into an all-out political revolt, drawing broad international attention and bringing out millions of people into the streets. (I'd call it a 
• Revolution).  1.
  a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.

  They might all die trying, but that's what their intent is:  getting rid of the Ayatollahs system.  Prince Pahlavi explained how they will have the time to decide on the method they want in its place and vote for what they want. 
• It's time for our reporters in the USA try to get in and report on this Revolution.  Wear the gear for it !  Come on Sherman, be the first!!! 
• 2/2/2026  6:45am ;  have another source: israpundit.org. which is, according to AI, 
• It was generally categorized under "pro-Israel blogs," "conservative commentary on Israel," or "right-wing Israeli news commentary."
• Usage Examples: It was historically used to aggregate news stories and provide opinion pieces, serving as a platform for viewpoints critical of left-wing media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Resource:

https://www.israpundit.org/iran-the-mosques-are-burning-and-so-is-the-lie-of-the-islamic-state/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forward

https://iranhumanrights.org/2024/09/a-quiet-revolution-continues-in-iran-two-years-after-the-woman-life-freedom-uprising/#:~:text=September%2011%2C%202024%20%E2%80%93%20Two%20years,repression%20of%20the%20Islamic%20Republic.

https://forward.com/news/796129/why-protests-in-iran-seem-surprisingly-pro-israel/

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/irans-revolution-40-years-on-israels-reverse-periphery-doctrine/-- food for thought, not for this exact article, though:  The Brookings Institution is committed to quality, independence, and impact.We are supported by a diverse array of funders. In line with our values and policies, each Brookings publication represents the sole views of its author(s).

Not the West: AI Has Discovered Tousi's Evaluation of Revolution Going On In Iran (2nd Try)

  Nadene Goldfoot                                     

  Iranian Youth hit the streets;  would rather die standing than die bending their knees;  Police and others are joining them in the Revolution.  They are not about to shoot their own families and children who are doing so.  

Current Situation (As of early 2026):
Despite the lack of major US media coverage, reports indicate that anti-regime protests have escalated into a serious uprising, with thousands of deaths reported during a "two-day bloodbath" in January 2026, according to human rights groups and leaked information. US government-funded media, such as the Voice of America's Persian-language service, has increased its coverage, adding hours of live, specialized programming. However, mainstream television coverage has not matched the severity of the crisis. That's one reason why I can't say "The West" finally is telling about

the Revolution going on in Iran.  I thought AI telling it was happening was 

enough of a fact to related to others.  I didn't mean to be misleading but 

factual.  

As of early February 2026, a intense,, widespread uprising is challenging the Iranian regime following severe economic crises, with thousands protesting and reports of significant casualties and over 18,000 arrests. The movement, featuring "Death to Khamenei" chants, is met with brutal state repression, including internet blackouts, though protests persist across various cities.  

• Scale and Scope: The unrest, which began around late December 2025, involves diverse social classes protesting inflation, high prices, and the clerical establishment.
• Regime Response: Authorities are employing violent suppression, resulting in thousands of deaths and detentions, described as a "massacre". The government has also imposed severe internet blackouts to stifle mobilization. (Tousi.tv got through)
• Economic Drivers: Protests were triggered by a crashing currency and high inflation, with the regime initially suggesting economic relief before switching to a hardline crackdown. (they offered each person $7 dollars.)  (Money is zilch!  Jobs are gone.  So is food and water).  
• Outlook: While some analysts see the potential for a revolution, others suggest the regime's intense, violent crackdown may crush the movement, or it could lead to a, more militarized, IRGC-led, state, Fortune.  (This time the Revolution is taking;  Crown Prince Pavlovi is leading it.  It's a  happening. ) 
• International Context: The U.S. has maintained a travel advisory warning against travel to Iran, while CNN reported a U.S. carrier strike group moving to the region. 

  US carrier strike group is now in the Middle East region, sources say.

• The situation remains highly volatile, with the

•  regime's survival

•  appearing more uncertain than in previous uprisings, though it 

• retains strong, coercive control. (on the record, Trump has 

• engagements with IRGC about

•  nuclear arms still in the planning.) 

The question still remains:  Why hasn't the West-meaning the abc, CNN,

NBC, etc, well known websites picked up the Revolution?  Do they have

reporters there?  The Ayatollah of Iran closed down their internet but can't

American reporters get their own facts on this?  If not, why?  Are they all

rooting for the Ayatollas's regime?  It looks like it to me.  

Resource:

AI through google-excited to find this information, maybe too excited  

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/middleeast/iran-carrier-strike-group-indian-ocean-intl

Pardon to people reading my copy under a different title.  I was called on it as not being correct.  I

have been trusting Tousi.tv.  I still do until proven wrong.  Again, this world is upside down.  Nada

Israel's Operation Rising Lion Helps Iranian Lion

 Nadene Goldfoot                                       

        Israelis are helping again the young people of Iran freeing themselves.  Israel is right there.  May we continue to have a freedom of caring for each other and helping out like the lions above.  Shalom Tousi, I love you, too, and that's from an old Israeli Jewess living in USA's Portland, Oregon, former teacher, now a blogger.   I know we haven't had good relations; horrid ones with Ayatollahs, but good with your former Shah. What's all the listed meetings with IRGC people  their nuclear international continental rockets about ? Looks like they're all in hiding or Moscow!  Let's make it even better today!!! 

Based on the biblical and national symbolism of Israel, the lion (specifically the Lion of Judah) is found on the Emblem of Israel (the state emblem), which features a menorah surrounded by olive branches, framed by a shield with a lion on it. It is also represented in various Israeli, governmental, and military insignia representing strength and the Tribe of Judah. 

                                  Emblem of Jerusalem

                                                    

                                     Emblem of Israel 

                                                                               

     Flag of freed Iranians, going back to original flag of Shah of Iran

In June 2025, Israel launched "Operation Rising Lion," with IDF forces conducting intense, targeted strikes against Iranian military, nuclear, and regime infrastructure. That was only 7 months ago.  

These operations, including airstrikes and specialized attacks, killed over 30 senior IRGC commanders, destroyed missile launchers, and damaged nuclear sites at Natanz and Fordow. 

Operation Rising Lion (June 2025) was a 12-day Israeli aerial campaign targeting Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure, featuring over 300 airstrikes and 12,000+ intelligence images. Visuals include MAXAR satellite imagery showing damage at the Natanz enrichment facility, IDF, Facebook photos of IAF jets taking off, and images of female navigators, such as Maj. Shin. 

Major Shin (often referred to as Major Sh.) is a female combat navigator in the Israeli Air Force (IAF) who gained public attention for her role in historic, long-range airstrikes against Iran in June 2025. Flying over 1,500 kilometers, she emphasized the mission's goal of removing existential threats to Israel for a safer future. 

All the Terrorists Israel Fights in Defense To Protect Their People

       IDF includes Women As Well As Men:  They do their part in national defense.  
 Nadene Goldfoot

Over the last couple of days, the IDF eliminated 2 senior Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and struck Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza, killing 26. The Gaza strikes were in response to Hamas violations of the ceasefire. The fight against terror continues.

To all those screaming for ceasefires, pay attention.  Terrorists always break the rules of not firing anymore.  Hamas are one of the largest terrorist groups.  

Hezbollah terrorists: Hezbollah is a Shia Islamist (Muslim religion of Iran-different from Arabs) Lebanese political party and paramilitary group (terrorists) . Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. Its armed strength was assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army in 2016. A medium-sized army typically consists of 100,000 to 300,000 active-duty personnel. While top-tier militaries like China, India, Russia, and the U.S. exceed 1 million, many functional regional powers fall into this medium range, often supplemented by significant reserve forces. For context, the global average army size is approximately 148,000.  

Hamas: Hamas: A Palestinian Sunni-Islamist group that remains a major actor, particularly following the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel's border towns, and has been severely degraded by Israel but remains active.

Islamic Jihad terrorists: As of 2025-2026, Islamic terrorist organizations continue to operate globally, with significant activity concentrated in the Sahel region of Africa, the Middle East-Gaza, and South Asia. The deadliest groups currently include the Islamic State (IS) and its affiliates, along with Al-Qaeda branches. Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL): Remains the world's deadliest terrorist organization, causing over 1,800 deaths in 2024, with 71% of its activity in Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Aging In The White House Or Is It Maro Largo?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

What a surprise!  Trump doesn't REMEMBER whatever was found in the Epstein files about him being on his island !  

You think he should?  Was it that important to him at the time to cause a file to appear in his head?  Maybe for a little while but it's slipped away.

Trump was born June 14, 1946; making him 79 years old going on 80 in June.  He has Alzheimer's, has had it for some time already according to a few psychologists who can say this according to how he acts, walks, etc. 

I'm living in an assisted living facility and am 91 and am surrounded by people of all stages of memory-loss.  It can even hit people in their 60's.  

He knows something is going on in his brain.  Some words are not on the tip of his tongue anymore, but appear in him mind later on;  or maybe that stage is already gone.  

But to remember something a long long time ago;  one incident, or maybe more that today were unimportant to him enough to make a large dent in his memory bank?  Hard to say just how important it was to him in his psyche.  My daughter has said things like that to me, asking if I remembered, and I said yes, but really didn't.  We feel extra bad if we can't recall something so important to our loved ones.  

Epstein Files.  That's all the TV stations know to talk about.  Getting them, reading them, scanning them.  Will they be on the web?  Will that take over the web?  Who kept them?  Epstein, I suppose. He must have written them.  What a writer or Diary recorder !   

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, irreversible brain disorder—and the most common cause of dementia—that destroys memory and thinking skills. It involves the abnormal buildup of amyloid and tau proteins, leading to cell death and brain shrinkage. While not a normal part of aging, it mostly affects people over 65. Symptoms include severe memory loss, confusion, behavioral changes, and difficulty with daily tasks. 

Another overtaking us Seniors is hearing loss.  My dining room table swears we could write a Seinfield script that's hilarious using deafnessas our problem, and it's really funny how we miss-hear.  You say potato and we hear tomato;  like that only funnier.  No telling what a man likeTrump hears.  

Right now the government is in a partial shutdown, sohe must have not heard the warning signs.    

Resource:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alzheimers-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20350447

Why Does England Beat Up Iranian Elderly On Night of Iran's War Against Ayatollah

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

Mary Elizabeth Truss-Conservative,  is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day in office, she stepped down amid a government crisis, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.

During the Gaza war, the United Kingdom government has supported Israel diplomatically, has shared Gaza surveillance information with Israel and has allowed arms sales to Israel's military.

 It has also condemned some of Israel's actions, including its killing of Palestinian civilians and blockade of the Gaza Strip. That helped cause the Arabs of Gaza to be so filled with themselves that they attacked the Jews of Israel who they shared the border with and killed,  slaughtered and mutilated their bodies in a maniacal frenzy on October 7, 2023. Why not?  Didn't the whole world hate Israel because of the Palestinians? 

                                           

 Rishi Sunak served as Prime Minister-Conservative of the United Kingdom from October 25, 2022, to July 5, 2024, leading the Conservative Party after Liz Truss's resignation. As the first British Asian and Hindu PM, his 20-month tenure focused on economic stability, the war in Ukraine, and the Rwanda asylum plan. He resigned following a major general election defeat. He had a good background that has dissolved with pressure from others.  Too bad he wasn't strong enough.

In October 2023, Hamas led a surprise attack on Israel that devolved into a war and a growing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Sunak pledged  the UK's support for Israel and declared that Israel "has an absolute right to defend itself". Sunak backed calls for humanitarian pauses to allow for aid to be brought into Gaza, although he initially rejected calls for a full ceasefire as he argued that this would only benefit Hamas.

Israel used British-supplied weapons in the war. However, Sunak later condemned the high number of civilian casualties in Gaza and called for a "sustainable ceasefire" in which all Israeli hostages were returned to Israel, attacks against Israel ceased and humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. His government supported the two-state solution as a resolution to the conflict.

When the International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan announced that he would seek to charge Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with war crimes, Sunak criticised the move as "unhelpful" and accused Khan of drawing a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas.  

                      Prime Minister Keir Starmer-Labour   

The UK had a Conservative government led by Rishi Sunak until July 2024, and has had a Labour government led by Keir Starmer since then. He was a lawyer, no military background.  

Both governments have called for a ceasefire, a two-state solution, and provided humanitarian aid to Gaza.  They were not military men, had no idea why  the ceasefire hadn't been called or why Israel was against the two-state solution. By the way, Hamas has had many cease fires, always used to stock up on ammunition to attack Israel.  

This attack in itself should tell any country with half a brain why having Palestinians on one's doorstep was not a good idea !! A people brain-washed with before birth to hate Jews to satisfy their parents political and religious goals of driving Jews (Israelis) out of the country Jews themselves had established in 1948, a land that had been the Jews ancient land as recorded in the Bible, and cheered on by both Jews and many Christians who read the Old Testament enough to know this, but not the English, I see, would understand. No;  a 2 state solution works with Canada/USA (rather has been but now, don't know with Trump on a buying spree) or  Mexico/USA, and again,  immigration problems with our neighbor;  but not the last people on earth to pair up with Israel, the Palestinians, who all have embibed in the drinking of Hamas somehow;  the terrorists themselves or their propaganda.   

 There have also been many large anti-war protests throughout the UK. In September 2025, the UK formally recognised the State of Palestine.

                 Ayatollah in Hiding in Iran While Threatening World 

Now, the English attack on Iranian immigrants living in England's London, shows their own true colors.  Beating up this aged population, afflicting pain, blood, and near-death, I saw one man after a beating holding his heart.  Ayatollah has England fearful. 

 USA's fleet sits in waters, waiting for orders.  About 40,000 young civilians have been murdered by the Ayatollah regime, but the rest are celebrating and putting up the old flag with the lion in the middle and taking down the flag they have seen for past 40 some years.  It's about over with freedom for the people, finally. One thing;  an old man asked the policeman why them?  You didn't beat up the Palestinians?  Why these Iranians escaping the purge going on back in Iran?                            

Mahyar Tousi is a political YouTuber running the UK’s most watched online news show. Born in Iran, he came to this country as a child following his mother’s escape from the Iranian regime that resulted in her becoming a political refugee in Britain.

Over the years, Mahyar has dedicated his life to fighting for the values of free markets, free speech and free people. His mission is to protect the British culture, which gave a second chance to him and his family.

He currently does this by running political and media campaigns on a grassroots level. His previous movements have attracted hundreds of freedom-loving Brits.

He's the only one with what it takes to produce a website from Iran with the real facts.  He's my source and I thank  him for it.  He may not realize what I just found about England's politics that I showed above.  England has a bad rep with me;  how they treated the Jews when they held the 30 year mandate over them in Palestine;  how the culture reacts towards Jews...anti-semitic.  etc.  

Reminder:  Israel went in and helped the Iranians; they were there.  Don't know if this was planned with Trump or not.  

Edit: 2/2/26; 6:00am

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