"In our society, there is sometimes a minority that says strange and bizarre things. There is a minority that says: if this war is intensified and expanded, the Imam of the Time will appear sooner, and therefore to bring about the Imam’s appearance we must intensify the war.”
Tehran is openly defying Washington with “fingers on the trigger” deterrence messaging and retaliatory threats that increasingly implicate Israel. Simultaneously, it is escalating repression—executions, forced-confession narratives, and sustained internet disruption—to crush prot