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Protests in Iran, day 28: Khamenei does what Hitler did, hides in a bunker

By: Arnt Jensvoll   25. January 2026, 07:00

In just a few days, not one or a hundred, but preliminary estimates say 16,000 to 20,000 young civilians protesting the IRGC in Iran were brutally murdered in front of everyone’s eyes. And the IRGC plans to execute jailed protesters in the coming days, writes Gatestone Institute.

Iran has rejected a resolution from the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that condemned the violent crackdown on protests and demanded a halt to arrests, extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and other abominations. The resolution was adopted with 25 votes in favour, 7 against and 14 abstentions. Iran’s envoy Ali Bahreini claimed that 3,117 people have been killed in the unrest, 2,427 of them by “terrorists” armed and funded by the US, Israel and their allies. He ironically called the resolution “the history of genocide and war crimes“.

Trump combines two tools that authoritarian regimes fear

Iranian leaders have become accustomed to the West’s diplomatic restraint – their carefully considered statements aimed at avoiding escalation. They have learnt that repression at home provokes criticism without consequence. They have learnt that terrorist acts abroad will be condemned, but tolerated and forgotten. They have learnt that nuclear deception leads to negotiation, not punishment.

Trump breaks with this, combining two tools that authoritarian regimes fear: open moral solidarity with the regime’s victims and a credible willingness to use force.

Trump has broken a taboo in American politics by speaking directly to the Iranian people; he includes them as important political actors. Authoritarian regimes rely on psychologically isolating the population and convincing them that they are alone, forgotten and invisible. When the President of the United States openly recognises their struggle, the wall of isolation cracks.

Thanks to the Trump administration and Israel, the Iranian regime has never been weaker. Not since Khomeini’s 1979 Islamic revolution has the system faced a similar confluence of internal rebellion, economic collapse, military vulnerability and psychological defeat.

Never have the mullahs seemed so afraid of their own people. This weakening is the result of – above all – the courage of the Iranian people, who have risen up against a system that has legitimised itself through imprisonment and execution.

The foundations of the Islamic Republic – its claim to divine legitimacy, its violence, its image of invincibility and its control over the economy – are crumbling.

Regimes rarely fall simply because people dislike them. They fall when fear changes sides.

Fear has reached the regime’s innermost circles

There are various reports about where Khamenei is and what he plans to do when the regime collapses. One frequently mentioned possibility is escape to Moscow with a small entourage. He will no longer be staying at his residence in Tehran, nor in important government buildings – he is residing in an underground bunker.

Khamenei is following a well-known tradition when he hides in his underground bunker. Hitler ended his life in his Führerbunker under the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Muammar Gaddafi was captured and killed in a sewer, Nasrallah spent several years underground in Dahieh, Sinwar got a taste of underground life in the tunnels of Gaza, Saddam ended up in a hole in Iraq.

– Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has moved into a special underground shelter in Tehran after senior military and security officials assessed the growing risk of a US attack. The facility is described as a fortified area with interconnecting tunnels. The information also suggests that Masoud Khamenei, the supreme leader’s third son, has taken over the day-to-day running of the leader’s office and serves as the main channel of communication with the executive.

It should be noted that @A_M_R_M1 appears to be a sensationalistic source with medium credibility.

– Senior White House officials say that “no protected underground bunker will be able to protect Khamenei if President Trump decides to attack.”

– US media is reporting that Trump wants to capture Khamenei in the same way as Maduro.

Eric Trump gives the Iranian mullahs a deadline of Monday.

– President Trump has sent a late notice of emergency: All hell will break loose on Monday.

The mullahs are preparing – they’re collecting bodies

The Islamic regime is refusing to hand over the bodies of Iranians it has killed to their families. The reason they are collecting bodies is that they plan to portray them as “civilian casualties” caused by an upcoming US attack.

– The Holocaust in real time. 43,000 killed is a minimum. The real death toll is probably several times higher. We are witnessing a systematic, organised mass extermination.

The horrors you don’t see: 16,000 bodies were brought to the Kahrizak forensic centre in Tehran alone. 350,000 injured people are bleeding to death at home because hospitals have become traps for arrests. 20,000 arrestees sit in dark cells waiting for the executioner.

The ultimate deception: The Islamic regime steals bodies. They refuse to return the children to their mothers. They store the bodies to present them as “civilian casualties” in the event of a US air strike. They murder Iranians and use cold corpses as political shields. The silence of the international community will enable a repetition and escalation of the atrocities.

We previously reported on the parents who found their son in a body bag – alive. Here, the story is repeated from the UN rostrum.

– Take the time to watch this. It’s short, but gives you an insight into what’s happening in Iran as world leaders struggle to figure out how to respond. So far, it’s been largely silence and inaction.

– New video footage shows the bodies of children on the floor after the Islamic Republic killed them.

https://twitter.com/EYakoby/status/2015216118055526748?s=20

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We ask again: Where are the so-called human rights activists, liberal, LGBTQ and feminist groups that were so vocal about Palestine but silent about the Iranians fighting the Islamic regime?

– Medical staff secretly leaked footage from one of the hospitals in Tehran – this is just one of the hospitals!

Tommy Robinson points out the contrast between ordinary young Iranians and the children of the regime’s leaders. “We are not in a position to determine the authenticity of the video, but we do not doubt its message.

While Iranians are being slaughtered in the fight for freedom, the children of the regime are living a life of luxury in Monaco.

– An Iranian from Tehran: “Let it be known that if Trump attacks Iran and I’m accidentally killed as a result, my killer is Khamenei.”

Once again, it must be emphasised that news from Iran is largely unverifiable. What is “true” one day may be a “lie” the next.

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