G.R. Gold

The footage we are receiving from inside the country and the voices we hear from the people in the street all indicates there has been a massive attack on many different locations in Tehran and several cities across the country. And in one video a lady was shouting,

The office of the supreme leader hit. Another woman joyfully said, finally, he was hit. And it all indicates the mood in Iran for so many people who just more than a month ago, thousands of people, thousands of protesters were killed and gunned down. And so many people are not happy with the situation in the country. But of course there are also many people who are afraid of the war. They don't know what is the outcome. Just a few minutes ago, Iranian officials said,

18 opiskelijoita on tullut Minabin kaupungissa. Ja mitä me näemme myös, me näemme, että antiriitapolitiikka ja turvallisuusvoimia on myös tehty erilaisissa paikoissaan Teheran kaupungissa. Mutta se ei ole vain Teheran, joka näyttää niin monia explosioita ja terveyttä. Myös monissa kaupungeissa. Kermanshraan kaupungin kaupungissa, me tiedämme, että viime vuonna on ollut monta missailun laajennuksia.

There have been also attacks. It seems what we are hearing from them and what we are hearing from underground, also they are targeting Revolutionary Guards bases in different cities, in small towns, in hopes that some of those people come out to the street, so rise up against the government.

I think we know they were expecting some sort of attack, and we know from the last year also when he was the target of Israeli airstrike, he was moved to the safe and underground bunker. That was what we were hearing. That's what we were expecting. Yes, his office may have been hit, but most likely he has been moved to a safe place.

But what we are hearing from President Trump, if you would have asked me before President Trump's speech today, what is the purpose of this attack, I might say, you know what, maybe this is a limited attack against Iran to get more concession on a negotiation table. But what he said to this, it was clearly a declaration of war. And for the first time, very clearly, President Trump said they want regime change in Iran. That's why he said after the bombing is finished, people should come out

Ja niin paljon ihmisiä sisällä maassa ei ole onnellista tilanteesta. Ekonomia on krippeltävä. Iran on yksilöity. Ja myös regiimi on loppunut legitimiteettiin, jopa omien tuottajien sisällä. Koska asuntoja on tullut tuhansia ihmisiä vain yli kaksi kuukautta sitten.

And the Mossad, of course, do have extraordinarily good contacts inside Iran, don't they?

Yksi, kaksi, kolme, neljä, viisi. Ota LähiTapiolan henkivakuutus ja lepäät rauhassa. Henkivakuutuksen myöntää LähiTapiola keskinäinen henkivakuutusyhtiö. LähiTapiola, samalla puolella.

BBC Persians G.R. Gold shared his own perspective on the shutdown. Last year when they shut down the internet, one of the main reasons the Iranian regime did that was because Israelis were tracking some of the officials, whether there was bodyguards, their family members, and they located them and tracked them down and they hit their location. That was one of the main reasons. But I think this time around, most likely the Iranian regime...

Also worried about its own people they might rise up. We know less than two months ago when there was a mass protest in Iran, the regime completely reduced its speed of internet totally or shut it down in order people not to be able to organize and call on each other to come to the street. But one thing for fact I know is in the last month scores of Starlink satellite dishes and router has been smuggled into Iran.

Caroline Hawley sanoo, että kysyin G.R. Gollin BBC-Persian järjestöstä, onko tämä tuntemuspohja Iranin kanssa. Se on todennäköisesti suurin piirtein kestävän ja valkoisen ympäristön, jota olemme nähneet monia vuosia. Ja se alone on tärkeää.

Mutta sitä, mitä olemme nähneet Teheranissa, ja sitä, mitä olemme saaneet näkökulmasta, ja myös näkökulmasta, jolloin regiimi täytti internetin täysin, sanotaan, että Teheranissa on niin monia erilaisia alueita, että kymmeniä tuhansia ihmisiä on tullut ulos kaupungista ja puhuneet sloganeja Iranin yliopistolle Ayatollah Ali Khameneenille.

Se tarkoittaa hänet suoraan ja pidetään hänet vastaavaksi maailman nykyisiin tilanteisiin. Luulen, että viime aikoina suurimmat massaprotestit olivat Teheran ulkopuolella. Ja luulen, että tämän ajan se on myös Teheran. Ja jos ihmiset Teheran ulkopuolella tulevat maailmalle, se vahvistaa resta maailmaa. Ja se voisi olla vaihtoehto.

Iranian human rights groups say more than 40 people have been killed. BBC Persian has talked to the family of 21 of them and confirmed their identities.

When the protest started, it seemed to be about money, the economy, inflation, stuff like that, but it's changed, hasn't it? The US-led sanction has crippled the economy. The value of Iranian currency has sharply fallen against the US dollar. And this has created an unsustainable situation for so many people. Many people are struggling financially.

To make ends meet. But also many people are unhappy about social restrictions and deep anger at political unaccountability. Corruption on highest level among the officials and also their families. I think there are a combination of so many different reasons people are coming to the street. It feels many of them have little to lose.

I do believe it's a real threat, and the prospect of removing it depends on the ongoing conversations. Colombia has already experienced military violence from the United States, most recently in Panama at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, Panama is not part of Colombia.

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