{"id":334905,"date":"2025-07-30T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=334905"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:04:18","slug":"khameneis-july-29-speech-a-choreographed-display-of-power-concealing-the-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/khameneis-july-29-speech-a-choreographed-display-of-power-concealing-the-ruin\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei\u2019s July 29 Speech: A Choreographed Display of Power, Concealing the Ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_334906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334906\" style=\"width: 996px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-334906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ali-khamenei-speech-in-tehran-29072025.jpg\" alt=\"On July 29, 2025, Ali Khamenei delivered a rare standing address aimed at lifting the spirits of his shrinking, low-morale follower base after the regime\u2019s heavy setbacks in the 12-day war\" width=\"996\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ali-khamenei-speech-in-tehran-29072025.jpg 996w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ali-khamenei-speech-in-tehran-29072025-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ali-khamenei-speech-in-tehran-29072025-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ali-khamenei-speech-in-tehran-29072025-742x420.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ali-khamenei-speech-in-tehran-29072025-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ali-khamenei-speech-in-tehran-29072025-696x394.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On July 29, 2025, Ali Khamenei delivered a rare standing address aimed at lifting the spirits of his shrinking, low-morale follower base after the regime\u2019s heavy setbacks in the 12-day war<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Three-minute read<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On July 29, 2025, Ali Khamenei, the clerical regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aparat.com\/v\/vibg91e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stepped before the cameras<\/a> in the Khomeini Hussainiya for the third time since the devastating 12-day war. He came not as a victor, but as a ruler scrambling to patch the ideological fractures of his regime with threadbare slogans. The carefully chosen words were aimed not at the world, but inward\u2014toward a shaken, dispirited power apparatus that had just witnessed the loss of over 50 top military and nuclear personnel, and the deep damage to its defense infrastructure.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khamenei opened with a declaration: \u201cThe Islamic Republic is founded on two major pillars: religion and knowledge.\u201d He claimed the real issue the West has with Iran is not enrichment or human rights, but that \u201cthey oppose your faith and your knowledge\u2026 your widespread belief and national capabilities.\u201d He insisted that \u201cthe pillars of the system have shown their unparalleled strength to the world.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But this was not a speech of strength. It was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/khameneis-crisis-speech-highlights-declining-power-amid-strategic-setbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crisis manager\u2019s dispatch<\/a> to loyalists who had just suffered a strategic defeat\u2014framed as triumph only through denial. Beneath the declarations of divine mission and scientific genius was a plea to salvage morale from the ashes of war, economic collapse, and growing unrest.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Khamenei\u2019s Sudden Masquerade of Nationalism Seeks to Misdirect <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Outrage<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tAIOMo0F09\">https:\/\/t.co\/tAIOMo0F09<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1948731963344560421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 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;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In tone and content, this address mirrored a pattern the regime has followed for decades: reframe every setback as a test of ideological purity, every failure as the result of foreign plots. But no amount of slogan can cover the fact that, in truth, the regime\u2019s only successful \u201cenrichment\u201d has come from its industry of repression\u2014its laboratories of torture, its machine of executions, its monopoly on fear.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The boastful talk of a \u201cknowledge-based economy\u201d that once promised innovation and progress now lies buried under rolling blackouts, water crises, land subsidence, and the mass migration of the country\u2019s educated youth. Over <a href=\"https:\/\/mohabatnews.com\/fa\/news\/11\/8905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100,000 Iranian students have fled<\/a> abroad. Fewer than one percent return.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">While Khamenei spoke of \u201ctaking great steps forward in deepening our scientific capabilities,\u201d the reality is that Iran\u2019s nuclear program\u2014his crown jewel\u2014has been brought to a halt. Abbas Araghchi, the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister, has admitted that the infrastructure <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-iran-strikes-tehran-admits-nuclear-facilities-were-seriously-damaged-trump-warns-will-do-it-again-if-necessary\/articleshow\/122827545.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffered \u201cserious damage\u201d<\/a> and \u201chas now been effectively stopped.\u201d And yet, Khamenei doubled down: \u201cWe will not abandon knowledge and enrichment. We will elevate this nation to the pinnacle of glory\u2014to the blindness of our enemies.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Khamenei?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Khamenei<\/a> Breaks Silence in Bid to Shore Up a Fractured Base After 12-Day War<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DB9Rw7kNJn\">https:\/\/t.co\/DB9Rw7kNJn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1945958437470470315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 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;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These aren\u2019t policies. They are incantations.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a sense, the speech was not meant to persuade anyone outside the regime\u2019s inner sanctum. Its true audience was the fractured security and military elite, whose morale has crumbled. By insisting that \u201cthe world felt the full strength of the Islamic Republic up close,\u201d Khamenei was attempting to rewrite the outcome of a war the regime had neither anticipated nor controlled.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yet this act of defiance only underscored its desperation. The contradiction between past promises and present failures is no longer theoretical. The regime that once claimed to be the vanguard of justice and self-reliance now depends on mass surveillance, systematic execution, and state-sponsored terror beyond its borders to retain the illusion of power.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Khamenei Orders Parliament to Fall in Line Amid Crises Facing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Theocracy<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TzzdhXnSdc\">https:\/\/t.co\/TzzdhXnSdc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1933073284100202769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 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;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">More than ever, the clerical regime is isolated\u2014not only from the world but from the Iranian people. The streets have made that clear. The slogans from <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/iranian-resistance-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Resistance Units<\/a> painted on Tehran\u2019s walls, the strikes across cities, the rising chants for regime change\u2014all signal that the real power in Iran is shifting. It no longer lies in missiles or sermons, but in the hearts of a people who have endured everything\u2014and are preparing for more.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khamenei\u2019s performance on July 29 was the portrait of a regime that has outlived its promises and now clings only to myth. The myth of scientific supremacy. The myth of divine authority. 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