Nadene Goldfoot
We know that over 2,571 Iranians have been killed by the Revolutionary Guard or their Police henchmen with growing numbers so far. Evidently given a much lower figure, Trump thinks this has stopped. Only the execution of a young 26 year old student has been delayed being Trump's threat has stopped it thus far. The report I've heard from ILTV's reporter is that men, women, and children have been shot, mostly in the head and eyes, and the body bags are lining the grounds with others searching for their loved ones. Others have gone to the hospitals being with wounds who are immediately arrested and taken away and G-d know happens happens to them next. The arrested may even be tortured before executions being closed doors. Ayatollah's regime are not pussy cats; they are a cruel bunch. Iran is in its 2nd week of internet blackout among people who much fight against that to get information out.
Trump has given them the hope that he is coming, but seems to think a lot about doing it or how, now that so many are killed and he has said that he was coming if they started killing people. He's thinking more, evidently, about Venezuela and Greenland these hours. Israel thinks that the timing is bad, that they needed to wait, but waiting is only killing half of the population of Iran at this time. The other half do not realize what they are in for; no water, food nor money. Iran couldn't be worse off today than ever before.
There are several groups discussing the situation: FDD is one of them. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a neoconservative 501 non-profit think tank based in Washington, D.C., United States. It has been described as a pro-Israel, anti-Iran lobby group due to its focus on Iran and opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
III; Iran International Insight is another.
Robert Satloff (left), Joel Rayburn (center) and Behnam Ben TalebluThe current tensions in the Middle East, particularly involving Iran, Israel, and the United States, are a flashpoint for fears of a major global war.
Here's how some Americans see the situation: Any US military action against Iran risks falling short if it mirrors past “one-off” strikes without sustained political and economic pressure, analysts warned during an Iran International Insight town hall on Wednesday amid mounting fears of a US attack.
US President Donald Trump signaled on Tuesday that he was leaning toward a military strike on Iran when he said Iranian protesters should keep up the demonstrations and that “HELP IS ON ITS WAY.”
At least 12,000 people have been killed in Iran in the largest killing in the country's contemporary history, much of it carried out on January 8-9 during an ongoing internet shutdown, senior government and security sources told Iran International.
Joel Rayburn, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and Robert Satloff, the Executive Director of the Washington Institute, believe that limited military action by the United States may briefly punish Tehran's abuses but is unlikely to stop violence unless it is followed by a broader campaign. (my comment is that no Democratic soul in Iran will be left alive to help the Americans coming to their aid!!!!! All will be dead!!!!! Great idea in books, but in practice--think if these people were your people. Would you stand by while they were being slaughtered by the rigid cold Ayatollah command? )
Robert B. Satloff is an American historian on Arab and Islamic politics, U.S.-Israel relations, and the Middle East. Since January 1993, he has been the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Wikipedia Born: 1962 (age 63 years)
Joel Rayburn is a retired United States Army officer, former diplomat, and historian who served as the United States Special Envoy for Syria from 2018 to 2021. He has published books and articles about the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its results. Wikipedia Born: 1969 (age 56 years)
Rank: Colonel
Behnam Ben Taleblu is senior director of FDD’s Iran Program, where he oversees the breadth and depth of FDD’s work on Iran in addition to serving as a senior fellow specializing in Iranian security and political issues. For well over a decade, Behnam has supported FDD’s Iran program as a senior fellow, research fellow, and senior Iran analyst. Prior to his time at FDD, Behnam worked on non-proliferation issues at an arms control think tank in Washington. That's because:
Behnam earned his M.A. with honors in international relations from The University of Chicago, and his B.A. in international affairs and Middle East studies from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Behnam is also a member of the Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities and a contributing editor to National Security Journal. Leveraging his subject-matter expertise and native Persian-language skills, Behnam closely tracks a wide range of Iran-related functional and regional topics including nuclear non-proliferation, ballistic missiles and drones, sanctions, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies, the foreign and security policy of the Islamic Republic, and internal Iranian politics. Frequently called upon to brief journalists, congressional staff, diplomatic, military, academic, and policy audiences in Washington, across the United States, and around the world, Behnam has testified before various committees in the U.S. Congress, the Canadian Parliament, and the UK House of Commons.
On the 6th of January, 2026, the report was that Exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi on Tuesday issued his first public call for protests since the latest nationwide uprising began, urging coordinated chanting on Thursday evening, the 8th of January hours after Kurdish opposition parties separately called for a general strike that day. In other words, the Prince and the Kurds were calling for protests and strikes on Thursday. The rate at which Iranian security forces shot dead protesters increased significantly on 8 January, with hospitals shifting to crisis mode, and Iran International estimating that 12,000 protesters were killed on 8 and 9 January together.
In a video message addressed to Iranian people, Pahlavi said he had closely followed demonstrations over the past week, singling out protests in Tehran’s bazaars as a sign of growing resistance despite what he described as the Islamic Republic's violent crackdown.
He said repeated large-scale gatherings had forced security forces to retreat in some cases and led to what he described as increased defections.
Calling discipline and mass participation “critical,” Pahlavi urged Iranians to chant simultaneously at exactly 8:00 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, January 8 and 9, whether in the streets or from inside their homes.
Separately, seven Iranian Kurdish opposition parties issued a joint statement urging a general strike on Thursday in support of nationwide protests and in condemnation of what they described as the Islamic Republic's actions in the Kurdish-majority provinces of Kermanshah and Ilam as well as Lorestan.
The statement denounced the crackdown on demonstrations and the detention of protesters as a long-standing policy of the Islamic Republic and called on political parties and civil organizations across the country to take a “united and collective stance” by joining the strike.
The call was signed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), Komala, Kurdistan Organization of the Communist Party of Iran, Revolutionary Komala of Toilers of Iranian Kurdistan, and the Kurdistan Organization of Khabat.
Today, the 15th of January, another Thursday, , exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi outlined his vision for a post-theocracy Iran, and a separate report noted the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called for Israel to respect Iran's sovereignty. ( Oh my; The Saudi's are indeed worried about Israel's moves on
ly.) A separate report on Thursday indicated that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called on the international community to pressure Israel to respect Iran's territorial integrity and cease attacks on Iranian soil. (My answer is that when they stop trying to bomb Israel with either terrorists nearby or their international missiles, they might considering it-that is, when they feel secure. How dumb of Iran.!
Resource:
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601153698
https://www.fdd.org/team/behnam-ben-taleblu/
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