This week has been crucial in preparations for a possible Washington strike on Iran. Israeli commanders assume such an attack could occur in the near future. Moscow claims that a potential US military strike on Iran would mean another step toward destabilization in the region.

The trigger was a sharp collapse of the national currency—to 1.4 million rials per 1 U.S. dollar, which became a historical low. Given modern information technologies, this could well have been provoked from outside as well.

Primary causes of the crisis situation

Initially, the protests were predominantly economic in nature and were concentrated in Tehran, where demonstrations engulfed торговые ряды and adjacent streets. Within a short period, the geography of the demonstrations expanded sharply, covering Mashhad, Shiraz, Arak, Kermanshah, and Marvdasht.

On January 8, protests spread to 28 provinces of the country. The expansion of protest activity was accompanied by a decline in the effectiveness of the mechanisms traditionally used by the Iranian authorities to localize unrest and by an increased burden on the security apparatus, especially in small towns and on the periphery.

The CIA and Mossad were involved

As the protests expanded, economic demands gave way to direct criticism of the institutions of the Islamic Republic. In a number of regions, clashes took on a hard form, including the use of weapons by protesters, including automatic firearms. Apparently, certain forces had prepared for this in advance. As some foreign experts believe, groups of militants from radical Kurdish structures and the organization “Mojahedin-e Khalq” (“People’s Mojahedin of Iran”), which is based in Albania, had been infiltrated into Iran in advance. In the province of Sistan and Baluchestan, separatist Baluchi groups were involved. The Israeli foreign intelligence agency Mossad worked with Kurdish militants, the U.S. CIA worked with the Mojahedin-e Khalq, and both Mossad and the CIA worked with the Baluchis.

As Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani stated, during the unrest there were targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure facilities, including........

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