{"id":339728,"date":"2025-11-24T19:50:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=339728"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:50:59","slug":"iranian-regime-admits-to-internal-attacks-on-khamenei-as-crisis-convergence-drives-disunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iranian-regime-admits-to-internal-attacks-on-khamenei-as-crisis-convergence-drives-disunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Regime Admits to Internal Attacks on Khamenei as Crisis Convergence Drives Disunity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei speaks during a closed-door gathering in Tehran \u2014 August 24, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In a few late-November days, some of the clerical regime\u2019s most senior insiders did something the system usually avoids: they said out loud that things are going wrong. The intelligence minister warned that \u201cthe enemy\u201d is now targeting Ali Khamenei from inside the country. The president and the parliament speaker both admitted that the country is being run the wrong way, even as MPs and state media lined up to attack the president himself. This is not reformist introspection. It is crisis management inside a closed system that is trying to shift blame without touching the man at the top.<\/p>\n

A Security Doctrine Built Around One Man<\/h2>\n

On Sunday, November 23, 2025, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib travelled to Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province and, according to IRGC-linked coverage, laid out a sharpened threat<\/a> narrative. He claimed that foreign powers have moved from \u201coverthrow and disintegration\u201d to \u201ccontainment through intensifying pressure,\u201d and admitted that \u201chostile attacks\u201d on the supreme leader now echo \u201cinside the country.\u201d The central problem, in his telling, is not drought, mismanagement or corruption, but criticism aimed at the person he called \u201cthe pole and axis of this tent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khatib described Khamenei as the source of \u201cunity, victory, progress, steadfastness and resistance,\u201d and warned that anyone who targets him with words should be treated as an infiltrator\u2014\u201cconsciously\u201d or \u201cunconsciously\u201d serving the enemy. In this framing, internal dissent is not a signal of regime failure but an intelligence challenge. The more the system fragments<\/a>, the more its managers insist that only the security services can decide who is loyal and who is an \u201cagent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Fissures of 'Consensus': Anatomy of a Political Crisis in #Tehran<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/a6wUvA8pvY<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n