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I do not trust the experts.
I do not trust the plans.
I do not trust in empty things unless shown logic, reason, facts, and sound arguments.
An empty appeal to titles of authority is meaningless to me. The only authority I care about is a track record of being correct.
If you see any "Iran analyst" pretending like there's any real distinction between the IRGC and the regular army, know they're a fake analyst.
It's not 1980 anymore, we're in 2026. The IRGC and regular army do not have much distinguishing factors, and new conscripts can be randomly assigned to units in either branch when doing their service.
The only thing that distinguishes them is that the regular army might have more career soldiers, aka someone who's in the military because their father also was in the military. Whereas the revolutionary guard might have more ideologically motivated volunteers. But functionally speaking, there isn't a "sharp distinction" between them anymore like there was in the 1980s.
People who also LARP about an "Artesh coup" also are clowns. Again, due to how mixed and intertwined the branches have become, such events are rendered impossible and again, it's not 1980. The 1980s generation of officers loyal to the Shah have long since retired, or are passing away. The current officer corps is all Islamic Republic era servicemen.
🇮🇷 Iran has two armies, and the bigger one is the one the regime has never fully trusted.
→ The Artesh, the regular army, has more than twice as many troops as the Guards' ground forces and runs most of the tanks and helicopters
→ Khomeini kept it after 1979 but saw the Shah's army as a threat, so he built the Guards for the sensitive jobs
→ An open-source count from August 2025 maps 12 divisions and about 42 brigades
Is the regime now betting its survival on the army it feared?
What changed
→ In 2025 an Artesh officer became chief of the armed forces for the first time
→ It also fought abroad, in Syria, for the first time since the war with Iraq
What did not
→ Its official job is still guarding borders and territory
→ The Guards keep the missiles, the navy and control of the street
→ A regime that disarms its army's role to stay safe has to arm a second force to protect it from the first
→ If the Guards stumble, as in the June 2025 war, the only place left to turn is the army
The Guards were built to protect the regime from the army. Now the regime may need the army to protect it from everyone else, and soldiers who guard a ruler can also decide his fate.
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Left: Lula and Iranian President martyr Sayyid Ibrahim Raisi (2023)
Right: Lula's VP Geraldo Alckmin, Shaykh Naim Qassem (Hezbollah), martyr Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas), Ziad al-Nakhalah (PIJ) and Mohammad Abdulsalam of AnsarAllah in Tehran (2024)
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Whilst military advisers from the STG have arrived in Yemen in recent days, visual evidence has emerged to suggest that Lebanese military advisers from Hezbollah and Syrian advisers from the defunct SAA have also done so. Forced into exile, many of these officers and soldiers have gone on to serve in other conflicts, such as the war against Israel in Lebanon, the Libyan civil war and the Russian-Ukrainian war. They are now also assisting the Sana’a forces against the Saudi aggression.
The deployment of Syrian terrorists to Yemen. 🇸🇾🇸🇦🇾🇪
In recent weeks, reports have emerged about the deployment of Syrian troops to Yemen in support of Saudi Arabia to fight against forces in Sanaa.
Previously, the presence of Syrian mercenaries in Yemen has been very limited, consisting mainly of TFSA/SNA members used by Turkey for its interventionist foreign policy—as it did in Libya and Azerbaijan (where the numbers were considerably higher)—as well as Syrian and non-Syrian terrorists affiliated with other groups, some of whom eventually joined AQAP and IS-YP.
In this case, the situation is quite different. Following the terrorists’ rise to power in December 2024, it would be the new STG authorities who would approve the deployment of troops that officially form part of the armed forces, which would imply formal participation in Yemen. It also reduces the likelihood of a Syrian intervention in Lebanon at a time when Damascus is struggling to financially sustain its armed forces.
Damascus sees this as an opportunity to rid itself of internal pressure from international terrorists within its ranks, as well as from Syrian rivals within its ranks—all in exchange for greater diplomatic and economic support from the Saudi petro-monarchy.
For the time being, the first Syrian military advisers appear to have arrived at military camps in Yemen, in preparation for the arrival of Syrian mercenaries in the coming days, whose number has yet to be determined.
With this move, Syria has become a country that exports terrorism within the umbrella of US-Israel.
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These ISIS sympathizers supported sending terrorists and car bombs to Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon to kíll Shias, but when it comes to their own nations, they want to live in harmony.
Christian Jordanians are an inseparable part of Jordan. They are natives, just as we Muslims are.
Muslim and Christian Jordanians have never regarded one another as foreign. We are one family, sharing the same ancestors, customs, food, language, and culture. This is a beautiful reality that has endured for nearly 1400 years.
Yesterday, I watched hundreds, if not thousands, of Jordanians come out to condemn the terrorist attack on the church in Karak (west central Jordan) and stand with our Christian brothers and sisters.
Many repeated the same powerful truth: that an attack on a church is an attack on a mosque, both are places of worship protected under our laws and faith.
We send our condolences to our Jordanian Christian families and pray for the swift recovery of the wounded.
Whoever tries to sow division, instill fear, or reduce Christian Jordanians to a 'minority' status is an enemy to every one of us and to our homeland.
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paging @doctor_rahmeh we have a jewmergency
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what do you think is happening in jewlani's syria
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Anti-regime protests took place again last night in the town of Rankous in Damascus. Although Jolani gangs opened fire on the civilians in an attempt to disperse protesters, demonstrators didn't scatter...
Solidarity tents for Rankous are also being set up across Qalamoun.
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when an alawi does it (allegedly), the whole muslim world mobilizes, fueled by tymber sycamore petrodollars and NATO think tank prop slop.
but when the wahabi ex-isis-lieutnant and current CIA/mossad asset in charge does it, the ummah sleeps.
you think we didn’t know all along?
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Mashallah see how the ummah liberated Syria so that the IDF would be free to march into Damascus.
هل تصبح دمشق، عاصمة الأمويين، أول عاصمة عربية تحت احتلال إسرائيلي مباشر؟
تبعد القوات الإسرائيلية حاليًا أقل من 28 كيلومترًا عن القصر الرئاسي في دمشق، وأقل من 17 كيلومترًا عن حدود العاصمة دمشق، من منطقة قلعة الجندل.
منذ سقوط بشار الأسد، احتلت إسرائيل أراضي سورية تبلغ مساحتها خمسة أضعاف مساحة قطاع غزة، ومرة ونصف مساحة الجولان المحتل.
تستمر القوات الإسرائيلية في التقدم وقضم الأراضي السورية من دون أي مقاومة.
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Wtf? Is Al-Sharaa liquidating militants who want to attack Israel? We all know the "heart attack" schtick, this isn't fooling anyone
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Here’s what I just woke up to. This is the genocidal extremist scum that Assad was fighting, and who now controls Syria. Their talks of “we’re not sectarian” and that they want “reconciliation” are nothing but lies.
