{"id":333532,"date":"2025-06-28T20:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=333532"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:28:26","slug":"irans-regime-struggles-to-mask-post-war-weakness-with-rhetoric-and-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/irans-regime-struggles-to-mask-post-war-weakness-with-rhetoric-and-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Struggles to Mask Post-War Weakness with Rhetoric and Repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_333533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333533\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-333533 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cleric-praying-on-coffin-of-fallen-IRGC-member-28062025.jpg\" alt=\"Funeral ceremony in Tehran, June 28, 2025, for a fallen Iranian security officer amid ongoing regional tensions\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cleric-praying-on-coffin-of-fallen-IRGC-member-28062025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cleric-praying-on-coffin-of-fallen-IRGC-member-28062025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cleric-praying-on-coffin-of-fallen-IRGC-member-28062025-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cleric-praying-on-coffin-of-fallen-IRGC-member-28062025-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cleric-praying-on-coffin-of-fallen-IRGC-member-28062025-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cleric-praying-on-coffin-of-fallen-IRGC-member-28062025-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State-staged funeral ceremony in Tehran, June 28, 2025, for slain IRGC officers amid ongoing regional conflict<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Two-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iranian regime, reeling from the aftermath of its 12-day war with Israel, is increasingly relying on theatrical displays of defiance and hostile rhetoric to conceal deepening vulnerabilities. Despite bold declarations, the clerical leadership&#8217;s own admissions expose significant internal strain, heavy military losses, and rising fear of instability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clerics and officials continue to dismiss any notion of peace as defeat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/news\/6513284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahmad Alamolhoda<\/a>, the Supreme Leader\u2019s representative in Mashhad, insisted, \u201cWe have not been defeated. We have not retreated&#8230; There is no peace. What was announced as a ceasefire is not peace\u2014it\u2019s a hudna [temporary truce].\u201d He doubled down: \u201cCompulsory peace will never be accepted. The Supreme Leader does not accept compulsory peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This aggressive posture, however, belies an anxious regime scrambling to control the narrative and reassert dominance after suffering heavy blows. Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje&#8217;i, the regime\u2019s judiciary chief, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/news\/6513878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for suspending<\/a> cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, labeling the move \u201cnatural.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Regime Responds to Military Losses with Repression and Belligerence<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xZNoIoYUWi\">https:\/\/t.co\/xZNoIoYUWi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1937949435465510995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simultaneously, Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, Friday prayer leader in Arak, launched an angry diatribe against IAEA chief Rafael Grossi: \u201cGrossi came, drank our tea, ate our rice and chicken, took our souvenirs, looted everything\u2014and still betrayed us. This cannot continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dorri-Najafabadi then made a rare admission: \u201cMore than 30 [regime forces] were killed in Markazi province alone, with some bodies still missing.\u201d Interior Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khabarfoori.com\/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C-59\/3150564-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%AA%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%81-%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C-%D9%85%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AA-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%AA%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5-%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D8%B4%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%84-%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%B1%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%B3-%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%81-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B2-%D9%BE%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87-%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%AA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eskandar Momeni revealed<\/a> even graver losses: \u201cIn the enemy\u2019s attacks, nearly 150 police forces were killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amidst this turmoil, the regime launched massive funeral ceremonies for slain commanders, urging the public to mourn its \u201cmartyrs of strength.\u201d In a highly publicized show on Saturday, June 28, Afghan fighters from the <a href=\"https:\/\/fararu.com\/fa\/news\/879256\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fatemiyoun Division were bused<\/a> in to participate. Crowds were led in state-sponsored chants of \u201cDeath to America,\u201d while Tehran\u2019s metro system offered free service to facilitate turnout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Regime Scrambles to Mask Defeat, Control Fallout After Ceasefire<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qC7wxMACAf\">https:\/\/t.co\/qC7wxMACAf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1938341139125338588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In parallel, officials struck an increasingly militant tone. Hassan Kazemi Qomi, a senior regime diplomat, dismissed border security as obsolete and declared the capital under threat from \u201ccyber, cognitive, and narrative warfare.\u201d He framed the war as part of a broader U.S.-Israeli plan to overthrow the regime, describing it as \u201ca full-scale hybrid war&#8230; not just drones and F-35s, but assassinations, social unrest, and economic sabotage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even so, Kazemi Qomi inadvertently exposed the regime\u2019s fears: \u201cThey believed that if a powerful military blow was delivered, the system would collapse&#8230; That was their miscalculation.\u201d He acknowledged that Tehran\u2019s own internal conditions had created the perception that *\u201cone strong strike\u201d might bring the regime down.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> News: Regime FM Defiant After Blocking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iaeaorg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iaeaorg<\/a>, Warns Europe Against &quot;Snapback&quot; Sanctions<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rT3fiPTFwa\">https:\/\/t.co\/rT3fiPTFwa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1938871255685272049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What emerges is a portrait of a leadership desperately asserting that it has not lost\u2014because acknowledging defeat could fracture its already fragile hold on power. State affiliated media commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khabaronline.ir\/news\/2082615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahmad Zaidabadi noted<\/a> \u201cunprecedented realignments\u201d are forming within the ruling elite, warning that \u201cexcruciating decisions\u201d now lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime\u2019s post-war posture reveals a leadership both defiant and cornered. Its overt aggression conceals a strategic retreat on multiple fronts: militarily weakened, diplomatically marginalized, and institutionally shaken. The bellicose rhetoric is not the product of calculated deception or strategic mastery, but the desperate reflex of a regime fractured from within, economically paralyzed, and facing a population seething with anger and disillusionment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read The Iranian regime, reeling from the aftermath of its 12-day war with Israel, is increasingly relying on theatrical displays of defiance and hostile rhetoric to conceal deepening vulnerabilities. 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