Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be gone by Monday? UPDATED

Peloni:  What is really needed to support the people of Iran in their goal of regaining control over their lives and their country is real support.  When the US chooses their targets and drops their bombs, no matter the sensitivity of the targets, the people of Iran will still only have their voice with which to defend themselves.  What they need are the capabilities to do more than overwhelm their oppressors with their numbers as they march into a hail of bullets and grenade fire. They need arms, munitions, and the capability to render their zeal as being more meaningful than a gaggle of protesting fish in an Iranian barrel. They need the ability to protect themselves and to stop the purge of their leaders and members and to bring their fight to a meaningful and decisive conclusion. Their victory in this moment will be a victory for the US and the West, and the possibilty of their failure in this moment will be have far reaching implications.  Of course, arming the Iranians will lack the the public extravaganza which arial explosions always provide for the press and which may satisfy a Western audience.  Yet, when the smoke clears from the US ordinance, it will leave the protestors in the precarious and unenviable position of still being defenseless against the unrestrained wrath of their Mullah masters whose control over Iran will not be defeated in the coming strikes.  The Iranians need arms, and they need them now.

While the leftists have been mentally masturbating over Maduro and Renee Good, the real news is the growing anti-Islamist revolution Iran.

Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | January 10, 2026

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or Democrats, including those who run most of America’s media, the only news is that Trump “illegally” extradited Maduro and his wife for crimes against America and that an ICE agent “murdered” an innocent lesbian poet and mommy. For people in living in the real world, the most important news this weekend may be that the Islamic Republic of Iran is almost certainly on its last legs—thanks in large part to long overdue action from Israel and America against this violent, terror-fomenting regime.

The regime has been in trouble for a while, thanks to a terrible drought and to its awful economic policies. These policies were exacerbated by the fact that the mullahs directed money away from the people and into supporting worldwide, terrorism and, especially, funding Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in their genocidal war against Israel.

That this war provided no benefit to the Iranian people was irrelevant. It was Iran’s necessary war with both Eastasia and Eurasia (I’m referring to Orwell’s 1984) because the government needed something to keep the Iranian people’s focus away from the mullah’s failures and atrocities.

However, in 2025, both Israel and the U.S., thanks to Trump, finally confronted Iran directly, destroying all of its air defenses and its nuclear program. Suddenly, the mullahs, like the fabled Emperor, stood there naked before the world. The Iranian people took notice.

Things got even worse for the mullahs because of plunging oil prices—again thanks to President Trump, who revitalized America’s oil production. That was another hit on the Iranian economy that the mullahs were unable to address.

First, unlike Obama in 2009, who was so anxious for a deal with the mullahs that he abandoned the people who were rising up, the United States has expressed its strong support for the Iranian people. It began with Trump’s threat against the mullahs (which may help explain fleeing mullahs now that people are getting killed):

Just after midnight (Eastern Time) today, the United States government officially stated its support for the Islamic people:

Aside from being the morally correct position, I would also call this identifying the winner right before the victory.

In addition, as I noted above, mullahs are fleeing, almost certainly because of their fear that Trump will make good on his threat now that people have been killed. (They would also be wise, at this point, to fear their own people.) First, here’s some of the recent news about people being killed:

One could say that the U.S. government, the Shah, and people on social media are being unduly optimistic, but the scale of the protests suggests that we’re witnessing a populist movement as big as, if not bigger than, the one that swept the foul mullahs into power back in 1979.

In 1926, in The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway included this great bit of dialog:

How did you go bankrupt?

Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

I think we’re at the “suddenly” phase of the Second Iranian Revolution, one that promises to sweep out the tyrants who have clamped down on Persia for so long. I hope I’m right because the world will be a better place if the mullahs are swept onto the trash heap of history.

UPDATE: And yes, the Trump administration is on it:

And Israel seems to be on it, too…maybe:

And speaking of Israel: