{"id":335074,"date":"2025-08-02T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=335074"},"modified":"2025-08-02T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:22:50","slug":"iran-regime-forms-new-defense-council-amid-post-war-security-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-regime-forms-new-defense-council-amid-post-war-security-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News: Regime Forms New \u201cDefense Council\u201d Amid Post-War Security Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_333890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333890\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-333890 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iran-irgc-basij-patrols.jpg\" alt=\"Basij paramilitary forces patrol the streets at night amid heightened security crackdowns across Iranian cities \u2013 July 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iran-irgc-basij-patrols.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iran-irgc-basij-patrols-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iran-irgc-basij-patrols-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iran-irgc-basij-patrols-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iran-irgc-basij-patrols-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iran-irgc-basij-patrols-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Basij paramilitary forces patrol the streets at night amid heightened security crackdowns across Iranian cities \u2013 July 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Three-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As it loses its grip over the increasingly restless society, the Iranian regime is scrambling to reestablish control over its discredited and fractured security apparatus. The IRGC-affiliated <a href=\"https:\/\/farsnews.ir\/politics\/1754062339978749018\/%D8%AA%D8%B4%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%84-%C2%AB%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B9%C2%BB-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%BE%DB%8C-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fars News Agency<\/em> confirmed<\/a> the formation of a new entity\u2014the \u201cDefense Council\u201d\u2014as part of what it calls a \u201cnew governance model\u201d in the fields of defense and national security in the wake of the recent 12-day conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to <em>Fars<\/em>, the new council will undertake \u201cstrategic missions in the field of the country&#8217;s defense policies,\u201d though details remain vague. This move comes on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/nournews.ir\/fa\/news\/237746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports by <em>Nournews<\/em><\/a>, a media outlet closes to the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), which warned on August 1 that structural changes in top-level security institutions were imminent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite these changes being framed as reforms, the reality is far more sinister. The regime is not building new institutions to protect the Iranian people\u2014it is creating new tools to suppress them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iranian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iranian<\/a> Regime Faces Internal Security Breach Amid Power Consolidation Drive<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MA8MfQI1Lk\">https:\/\/t.co\/MA8MfQI1Lk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1946649988106276889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Council to Defend the Regime, Not the Nation<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following major intelligence and operational failures during the war, the regime&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has reportedly lost trust in his military leadership and is seeking to centralize control by inserting loyal operatives deeper into every tier of the defense and intelligence structure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But this is not a strategy of reform\u2014it&#8217;s a strategy of survival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime continues to drain national resources on nuclear weapons development and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/article\/irans-islamist-proxies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foreign proxy groups<\/a>. This obsession with ideological warfare comes at the direct expense of Iran\u2019s infrastructure and civilian needs. As water shortages escalate in cities across the country, public anger is growing. Even Tehran, home to nearly ten million residents, faces imminent water scarcity. Iranians increasingly condemn the regime for squandering billions on weapons, militias, and uranium enrichment while neglecting the collapsing public infrastructure they rely on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, fearing a public uprising, the regime is cracking down violently\u2014suppressing dissent street by street and prison by prison.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>: Why Was SNSC Chief Ali Shamkhani Replaced With Ali Akbar Ahmadian?\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pVqGGXrwbq\">https:\/\/t.co\/pVqGGXrwbq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ali Safavi (@amsafavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amsafavi\/status\/1662287613837934592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Endless Repression: The Regime\u2019s True Defense Doctrine<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Defense Council\u2019s formation coincides with an alarming surge in state violence. In recent weeks, security forces have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20250627-iran-arrests-seized-weapons-mossad-connection-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested countless citizens<\/a>\u2014along with dual nationals and foreigners\u2014under the familiar charges of \u201cespionage\u201d and \u201cinfiltration.\u201d These arrests are rarely followed by real investigations. Instead, they become part of a pattern of terror: five-minute show trials, swift executions, and systemic torture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iranian people live under the shadow of a system where the executioner is always at work. Special prison squads raid the cells of political prisoners, brutally beat them, cover their heads, and vanish them into unknown locations. Families are left in the dark. The disappeared often never return.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the true face of the Iran regime\u2019s defense strategy\u2014not sovereignty, but fear.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tehran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tehran<\/a>\u2019s War Fallout Exposes a Cornered Regime Gripped by Fear, Crackdown, and Global Isolation<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tE9tEIP6H5\">https:\/\/t.co\/tE9tEIP6H5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1940130843990925451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Return of Larijani: Recycling the Old Guard<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the regime reshuffles its security elite, <em>Fars<\/em> reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-presidential-election-2021-who-is-ali-larijani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Larijani<\/a>, a former Secretary of the SNSC and close advisor to Khamenei, is expected to return to that position<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the current secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-why-was-snsc-chief-ali-shamkhani-replaced-with-ali-akbar-ahmadian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Akbar Ahmadian<\/a>, will reportedly be tasked with \u201cspecial and strategic cases,\u201d another vague designation meant to obscure rather than clarify.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These rotations do not signal progress. They reflect desperation. The regime is recycling familiar loyalists, not because they offer solutions, but because there is no one left to trust. In the aftermath of the war, several key commanders were killed, and the leadership vacuum is growing. The Defense Council is not a response to this crisis\u2014it\u2019s a distraction from it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What the regime fears most is not an external enemy\u2014it is the Iranian people. And what it defends most aggressively is not the nation\u2014but its own survival. No new institution can change this reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read As it loses its grip over the increasingly restless society, the Iranian regime is scrambling to reestablish control over its discredited and fractured security apparatus. 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