The millions of people in Mashhad were not the ones in the president’s advisors’ false intel. Rather, they were the participants in the city’s January 12th rally—pouring onto a street leading to the holy shrine of Imam Reza (pbuh) to denounce the actions of terrorist rioters—a demonstration that broke the city’s all-time record for participation. This pattern of false leads is not unique to the current US president.
The reason? Experience. It doesn’t matter whether it was the winter of 1978 and the era of Democrat Jimmy Carter, or the current Republican US president. The former, just ten days before the uprising of January 9, 1978, called Iran an “island of stability.” The latter—aside from the glaring error mentioned earlier—during the 12-Day War was offering Iran humiliating proposals at a time when Iran was engaged in a full-scale war with the Zionists, NATO, and the US. In his own mind, he believed he could compel Iran to surrender in the midst of a battlefield and military aggression.
These successive and repeated failures, from Carter to Trump, are no accident. In their flawed assessments of Iran’s situation, Democratic and Republican administrations are fundamentally alike. A core element of these miscalculations is their reliance on agents and mercenaries who are ostensibly Iranian but are, in essence, the colonial foot soldiers of imperialism. Miscalculations that have only intensified since the Islamic Revolution.
While the root cause of the problems and crises in the West Asia region today lies in the aggressive policies of the White House and its proxies, we must not forget that treacherous mercenaries in Iranian guise—with their closed, rigid, and hate-filled minds—are among the primary agents feeding the White House misinformation about the true state of affairs in Iran.
These mercenaries present a distorted and false image of the Iranian nation and the country’s conditions, twisting the truth and becoming the source of America’s flawed assessments regarding both the region and Iran. The trace of this treasonous current has been evident in US policy against Iran from the beginning of the Islamic Revolution and the 8-Year Sacred Defense to the present day.
At one point, it was the MEK terrorist Organization, which became the “twelfth division” of Saddam Hussein’s army during the 8-Year Sacred Defense, and later serving as the operational and intelligence wing for American and Zionist interests in terrorist and subversive operations inside Iran. These days, it has reappeared in a different form—the statement opening this text is but one sign of these miscalculations. The outward face of this treacherous current has changed, and its contractor has been replaced, but its nature remains the same: mercenaries of foreign powers. A current that advises Western politicians abroad, while within Iran, its field agents nurture dreams of a “Syria-model” and the partitioning of our cherished, united homeland.
However, the history of the 47 years since the Islamic Revolution has proven that once again, they are headed for a dead end. This is attested not only by history but by the roaring, million-strong human tide that swept across Iran on January 12, 2026. For nearly half a century, the book of destiny has been written by the united and dignified nation of beloved Iran, and it has always been against treachery, treason, and subservience to foreign powers—not in line with the illusions carried by mercenaries whose eyes are blinded by hatred, and by politicians who shape their strategies relying on these blind guides. After all, when the blind lead the blind, where can they possibly end up?
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