{"id":337719,"date":"2025-09-30T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337719"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:43:05","slug":"why-a-cornered-regime-keeps-warning-of-irans-organized-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/why-a-cornered-regime-keeps-warning-of-irans-organized-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Cornered Regime Keeps Warning of Iran’s Organized Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protesters clash with security forces in the streets of Iran during the 2022 uprising against the clerical dictatorship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Tehran\u2019s leaders have spent the past weeks broadcasting defiance abroad\u2014refusing to bend after the snapback of UN sanctions and a bruising 12-day confrontation\u2014yet their own words point elsewhere for the true danger. Senior officials and regime media keep naming an \u201cenemy within,\u201d an organized resistance with nationwide reach that, in their telling, can flip any protest into a challenge to power. The contradiction is not a slip; it is a window into the hierarchy of threats that the clerical state actually fears.<\/p>\n

The enemy they name<\/h2>\n

On September 27, 2025, at the sixth ceremony honoring the regime\u2019s war veterans in Tehran, Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei framed<\/a> the early post-1979 period not just as a war with Iraq but as \u201can internal war,\u201d openly acknowledging a two-front struggle. For decades the regime has tried to cast the PMOI as an Iraqi extension, but Mohseni-Ejei\u2019s words concede something different: a real battle was fought inside Iran. That acknowledgment is historically accurate, but his purpose in voicing it now is political\u2014reminding a shaken base that the system once survived an internal war and urging them not to lose faith amid today\u2019s crises.<\/p>\n

Former IRGC field commander Ahmad Gholampour was even more explicit. In a broadcast dated September 21<\/a>, 2025, he said the PMOI \u201cturned Tehran into a battlefield,\u201d locating the regime\u2019s key risk in the capital rather than along foreign fronts. His account of the closing phase of the 1980s war\u2014culminating in Ruhollah Khomeini\u2019s admission that he had \u201cdrunk the poison chalice\u201d\u2014is presented as a tale of pressure that forced strategic retreat.<\/p>\n

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Iran: The Nationwide Uprising and the Role of MEK Resistance Unitshttps:\/\/t.co\/3E0d9NG8pQ<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) April 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n