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On Friday, May 30, top Iranian regime figures unleashed a wave of bombastic statements aimed at foreign governments and internal audiences, revealing a deepening anxiety over the country’s international isolation and growing domestic fragility. The bold rhetoric — centered on defiance, “global revolution,” and divine leadership — appears designed less to confront the West than to shore up a shrinking, demoralized base of loyalists, security forces, and proxies.
In Rasht, Rasoul Falahati used his Friday sermon to declare that Iran’s revolution is “not limited to Iran,” but a divine mission to “save humanity.”
“Even the enemies have realized this revolution has reach… it is meant to eradicate all the world’s corrupt rulers,” he said, framing global pushback as proof of the regime’s significance.
Praising the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Falahati claimed: “The world today spins on the fingertips of this great leader,” dismissing Western leaders as ignorant and ineffective.
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This grandstanding follows a series of diplomatic blows to Tehran. On the same day, the regime’s Foreign Ministry summoned Austria’s chargé d’affaires in protest of an Austrian intelligence report exposing Tehran’s secret nuclear activities and terror plots in Europe. The regime called the report “fabricated,” yet rushed to demand a formal explanation. It comes amid growing evidence of Iranian operations targeting exiled opposition groups, particularly the PMOI, across the EU and the Balkans.
Meanwhile in Kermanshah, Habibollah Ghafouri framed regional proxy attacks — like Houthi strikes on U.S. naval vessels — as signs of American retreat. “For the first time in history, U.S. aircraft carriers are being forced to flee. This is the enemy’s defeat, not ours,” he said.
In response to a UK parliamentary declaration backing regime change and calling the IRGC a terrorist group, Iranian MP Gholamhossein Zarei lashed out on May 25, declaring, “Every Iranian is a Pasdar, every Iranian is a Basiji,” and warned British leaders to “remember the graves of your own in Bushehr.” His remarks reflect Tehran’s alarm over growing international support for the Iranian Resistance and the regime’s fear that diplomatic isolation is giving way to open political alignment with its enemies.
International Isolation of Tehran
Jan 18: Pakistan’s airstrikes on Iranian soil exposed regime’s vulnerabilities.
Feb 2-8: Canada deported regime officials; Instagram banned #Khamenei’s accounts.
Apr 11: Argentina ruled Tehran responsible for the 1994 AMIA bombing, calling it a… pic.twitter.com/iSZ0o9Vi8J— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) January 1, 2025
This campaign of bluster is calibrated to distract from what the regime itself fears most: its isolation, its exposed covert operations, and the erosion of faith among its own ranks. The louder the slogans — about “global revolution” and “superpower defeats” — the clearer the signal that the Islamic Republic is struggling to keep its narrative alive.
As Falahati admitted, the global backlash isn’t coincidental: “Even some Islamic governments have united with unbelievers to uproot our revolution. Because they know it has roots.”
That fear — of a revolution fading into irrelevance, abandoned even by its base — is what Tehran’s theatrical defiance can no longer conceal.