Collapsing Empire: How Iran Defeated Israel

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A stunning investigative report by Hebrew-language outlet Ynet has laid bare the embarrassing cataclysm not only of the US-Israeli war on Iran, but the Zionist entity’s effort to destroy the Islamic Republic via covert and overt military and intelligence operations. Violent Mossad-orchestrated protests, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s murder, and a Kurdish invasion were intended to produce regime change and “total victory” over Tehran. Yet, as Ynet bitterly concludes: “what started as a far-reaching Israeli move, rich in imagination, final in its solution, ends in heartache.”

In granular detail, the investigation tracks how the Zionist entity’s deranged scheme germinated in the minds of Israeli intelligence, military, and political chiefs, before the Trump administration was comprehensively sold on the plot. Along the way, Ynet exposes extraordinary and hazardous levels of delusion and imperial hubris at the highest levels of Tel Aviv and Washington. For example, Benjamin Netanyahu sincerely - and dangerously - believed Israel’s criminal September 2024 assault of Lebanon, and the June 2025 12 Day War, had decimated Hezbollah and Iran.

This perspective was shared by Mossad, which had been building a vast, dedicated anti-government army in Tehran since 2022. The Zionist entity was wholeheartedly convinced its local proxy forces had the power to collapse the entire Islamic Republic. “Fostering mass protest,” encouraging “armed resistance of minorities” - specifically, Kurds within and without Iran - while assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khameinei were in “parallel” parts of a three-pronged coup d’etat strategy. Netanyahu truly believed “total victory” over the Resistance was in grasp across every West Asian theatre. Ynet reports:

“Overthrowing the regime was the heart of Israel’s overall war plan.”

The operation was intended to be put into action this June. Yet, in January, with “tens of thousands” of Mossad-directed insurrectionists in the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities, the Zionist entity felt conditions had sufficiently “ripened” to make a decisive move. Mossad’s “influence organization” in the Islamic Republic was birthed in 2022, reaching “operational maturity two and a half years ago” - coincidentally around the time of October 7th. Ynet bleakly boasts of the “effort and sophistication” of the Zionist entity’s clandestine army of murderous anti-government rioters in Tehran:

“Israel has established its own poison machine. This is a serious weapon system that, if fully operational, can be fatal.”

Mossad pitched its braindead regime change plan directly to the CIA, Pentagon Central Command was informed of it by visiting Zionist Occupation Forces chief of staff Eyal Zamir, while Trump got personally lobbied by Netanyahu. The President - “convinced there were no limits to the capabilities of the military system at his command” after Nicolas Maduro’s January 3rd kidnap - and his administration were a highly receptive audience. Trump indicated his endorsement of the conspiracy on January 13th, publicly informing Iranians “help is on its way.”

A vast US military buildup in West Asia immediately began, while supposed peace talks with Tehran were ongoing. The negotiations were of course a con, intended to lull the Resistance into a false sense of security before the next phase of Israel’s intended palace coup commenced. On February 28th, Zionist-American airstrikes rained down on Tehran. Israel and the US felt certain Iran’s leadership had been eliminated or scattered, and the Islamic Republic’s command and control system “severely beaten.” But then, catastrophe started to erupt.

‘Popular Uprising’

While the Supreme Leader was killed - in an assassination demonically celebrated by Western media as “the assassination of the century” - sending Iran’s leadership temporarily underground, “an orderly change of government, in accordance with Khamenei’s will,” was successfully executed. Iran’s command and control system wasn’t in reality significantly disrupted, returning to full capacity within hours. No defections were forthcoming. Still, “euphoria” abounded in Washington and Tel Aviv. Trump - who privately “welcomed the Israeli hit” - issued a video statement urging the Iranian people to take power by violence, warning:

“To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all of the police. I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity, or in the alternative, face certain death.”

Netanyahu joined the insurrectionary call. Meanwhile, genocidal US-Israeli bombing was in reality stoking incendiary public anger in Iran and beyond. Among the most egregious atrocities, a deliberate Zionist-American airstrike on a primary school killed 156 young girls, sparking fiery international condemnation, vengeful mourning throughout West Asia, and UN investigations. Iranians of all ethnicities and faiths instead took to the streets in substantial numbers to grieve Khamenei, while celebrating his son Mojtaba’s ascension to Supreme Leader. Immediately, the IRGC moved to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

Despite the closure being an absolutely inevitable upshot of Zionist-American aggression against Iran, which Western intelligence assessments universally long-forecast, Ynet reports the US was “not ready for this move and its devastating economic consequences.” Trump’s threats to Tehran not to blockade the Strait were ignored. The riddle of why Washington was so caught off guard is answered by Netanyahu’s personal assurances to Trump the Islamic Republic would crumble in mere days. Astonishingly, there was no contingency plan beyond that.

In the meantime, another cog in the Zionist-American regime change operation in Tehran was also decisively faltering. “After 100 hours of air activity…a ground invasion from Kurdish militias based in Iraq” was supposed to commence. An invasion force had been training there over prior weeks, preparing “to reach the Kurdish region of Iran” and link up with fighters locally before a “mass march” on Tehran. For inspiration, Tel Aviv looked to Damascus being overwhelmed by MI6-supported HTS forces in mere days in December 2024.

Kurdish fighters train at a base near Erbil, Iraq, February 2026

However, Ynet reports Iranian intelligence learned “in advance about the planned invasion,” and supposedly informed Turkey, prompting Recep Erdoğan to personally demand Trump call it off. Regardless, the entire proposal was by any objective measure manifest insanity. After reports emerged in early March of the CIA training Kurdish militants “with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran,” even Zionist think tank pundits and diaspora activists warned invasion was a recipe for total disaster, which would unite Iranians of every extraction in opposition.

Undeterred, Kurdish invasion remained a fundamental component of Israel’s regime change strategy against Tehran, throughout the war. When a tentative ceasefire was struck on April 7th, after 40 days of devastating Iranian strikes, Ynet reports Israeli officials wondered why the military intervention never came to pass. Did the US not believe in the operation in the first place? Perhaps Trump changed his mind after Erdoğan picked up the phone? Or was “the whole idea a fantasy, with no chance of being realised?”

‘Inadvertent Effects’

That the Zionist entity was so convinced its self-evidently misguided, suicidal mission could possibly succeed is all the more damning, given the contents of a July 2025 report from Tel Aviv’s highly influential Institute for National Security Studies. A withering appraisal of the 12 Day War, the think tank acknowledged Iranian “regime change” had been an avowed Zionist objective from that conflict’s inception, which failed spectacularly. INSS still advocated for destroying the Islamic Republic, but cautioned against pursuing certain strategies.

Strikingly, the think tank warned against employing precisely the regime change tactics depended upon by the ZOF and Mossad, during the latest Zionist-American war on Iran. For one, INSS correctly predicted any Israeli military effort - particularly civilian bombing - intended to ignite mass anti-government protests had no chance of success. Such actions during the 12 Day War had conversely produced an intense “anti-Israel wave” among Iranians, who “exhibited a notable degree” of “rallying around the flag” in response.

Iranians’ determination “to defend their homeland at a critical moment against an external enemy” endured after the 12 Day War ended, to the extent all traces of public dissent in the Islamic Republic “almost completely disappeared” in the conflict’s wake. INSS likewise vehemently cautioned against encouraging “separatist tendencies” in Iran - such as Kurdish militancy. Due to “heightened public sensitivity to any perceived foreign attempts to promote ethnic fragmentation,” separatist insurrection, let alone outright invasion, would unite “large segments” of the Iranian public “against Israel.”

Moreover, a particularly prophetic portion of INSS’ report strongly cautioned against assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as doing so “would not necessarily result in regime change,” and inevitably backfire. The think tank precisely foretold Tehran “would likely have little difficulty selecting a successor, who could prove to be more extreme or more capable.” INSS likewise predicted the Iranian government instead being strengthened, and anti-Zionist sentiment skyrocketing in the country and beyond, leaving any subsequent “efforts to destabilize the regime through popular protest” dead on arrival.

Iranian strike on Tel Aviv, February 28th 2026

All these humiliating outcomes duly happened following February 28th. Elsewhere, INSS forecast military-driven Israeli regime change efforts in Iran could compel the Islamic Republic to seek nuclear weapons capability “as an existential insurance policy.” This hasn’t yet materialised, although Western officials now widely fear it may. Meanwhile, ever since the ceasefire was implemented, talks between Washington and Tehran have been stuck in seemingly implacable stalemate. While US officials remain committed to imposing sharp limits on Iran’s nuclear research, the Islamic Republic refuses to even negotiate the issue.

Furthermore, Tehran has made clear its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz will only be loosened when the Empire stops blockading the country, and ends the conflict. While Netanyahu still harbours reveries of shattering the Islamic Republic, the Empire lacks anything like the required economic and military muscle. Meanwhile, heavily overextended Tel Aviv has blundered into a colossal trap in Lebanon. The Resistance is waiting and watching intently. In recklessly seeking self-evidently unattainable “regime change” in Iran, the Zionist entity has only hastened its own permanent destruction.