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Iran’s Media War Against Trump and Netanyahu 🔠🅰️🔠🔠1️⃣ Iran’s regime has organised more than 850 public demonstrations of support of the government since the beginning of the war and launched a continuing crackdown on unrest that has led to at least 1,400 detentions, research reveals. The high number of pro-regime gatherings and the increasing number of detentions underlines the resilience of the Islamic Republic despite a month-long campaign of intensive airstrikes by the US and Israel, experts said. The war began with a surprise Israeli strike, which killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and many senior officials. Israel has since continued to assassinate senior commanders, most recently Alireza Tangsiri, the naval commander of the Revolutionary Guards, who died in an attack on the port city of Bandar Abbas on Thursday. “The US-Israeli decapitation strategy could not have been more successful and continues to be so (…) but the regime has not fragmented and there are no defections. The messaging within Iran is how they are winning, and that is constant and consistent,” said Clionadh Raleigh, the president of Acled, an independent conflict monitor, which has built up a database of protest incidents and violence in the month-long conflict. The Acled research also shows that the number of US and Israeli strikes on Iran has remained steady at between 47 and 102 attacks daily that have caused “significant” civilian casualties. Acled uses multiple sources among Iranian, regional and international media and social media, as well as its own sources on the ground, to cross-check and verify reports of violence, which it then logs and sorts into categories. Trump said earlier this week that the US had already achieved “regime change” in Iran, while Netanyahu has made repeated calls for the Iranian public to rise up and oust their leaders. Many experts and officials in the US and Israel believe early forecasts of a mass revolt were misguided, however. The third week of the conflict had the most sustained waves of mass public demonstrations in Iran in support of the regime. Acled counted 195 pro-regime demonstrations from 28 February to 6 March, focused on mourning for Khamenei and condemning Israel and the US, then 158 in the following week and nearly 300 from 13-19 March, with celebrations of the succession of Mojtaba Khamenei prominent. #iran#war#trump#netanyahu#wounded#deaths#teheran 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸