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GRAY SWAN - THE IRANIAN GENERALS

This article is an analysis of Iran's generals.  


The Imperial Armed Forces


Before the ayatollahs, there was the Shah. His generals were not religious men; they were sharp, Western-facing professionals. They came from aristocratic families.  

Men like General Gholam Ali Oveisi believed in order. His troops weren’t killing innocent people, they were trying to stop the horde of Islamic terrorist zombies who with eyes wild with demonic possession were setting buildings on fire and destroying random cars on the street. Iran had no economy because the zombies destroyed it 1400 years ago. The Shah was trying to build it up, but the Islamists were determined to destroy everything.   

Labeling Oveisi the “Butcher of Tehran” was clearly an exaggeration, but back then, baseless crude false accusations were all it took to stir up a gullible public who had no access to information like we do in the modern era.  

Then there was General Nader Jahanbani of the Imperial Iranian Air Force. A visionary, a pilot. He built one of the most advanced air forces in the world, which ironically, under Khomeinei's rule, would save Khomeini from being defeated by Saddam Hussein. Building the greatest air force in the world was no small deed.

The air force that he built would be chased out of Iran, but the pilots would later make a deal with the Islamic Republic during the Iran-Iraq War, to let them come back to Iran to fly the jets that Khomeini’s zombies couldn’t fly. These courageous pilots engaged in dogfights and flew deep into Iraqi territory, essentially wiping out Saddam’s air force but were treated by the Islamic Republic as enemies of the state simply because they were not low-class terrorists.    

General Nematollah Nassiri, the Shah’s enforcer-in-chief and head of SAVAK, Iran’s notorious secret police, was vilified as a bloodthirsty monster when in reality he was trying to save Iran from the zombies who were destroying Iran.

The men who were trying to stop Khomeini’s zombies have proven to have been absolutely right. More force should have been used. They should have surrounded the demonstrators and used flamethrowers on them. They should have cooked them alive.

By failing to stop the zombies, Iran was eventually over-run --- and civilized society was punished for being civilized, while the nobility had to beg stupid savages for mercy that never came.    

Iran was the number one growing economy in the world. Now it ranks in 200th place behind the cannibal kingdom of the Congo.

Born in 1910 in Semnan, Nassiri wasn’t just another military man—he was a classmate and confidant of Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. That connection would catapult him from provincial governor to the head of SAVAK in 1965. What outsiders don't understand is that the zombies had tried to kill the Shah's father numerous times, and now were trying to kill the Shah. Nassiri saved the Shah from a gunman, and my father saved the Shah from a knife attack. The jihadists were constantly instigating violence and making death threats. Filled with violence 24/7, and none of the peacefulness that comes from God.  

Nassiri was a strong, stable man, unswayed by any threats. But the Shah was weak. He wasn't like his father who was strong.  He tried to do what was right but his failure was that he thought Iran was all about him, as he himself had revealed in an interview. That attitude was wrong. He should have empowered hundreds of men and women to become leaders and he should have taken the focus off of himself because all human leaders eventually become a foul stench to the majority. He should have had Khomeini's tongue cut out.  He should have sought to permanently neutralize Khomeini without killing him.  

At the age of 22, the West basically installed him as a puppet regime and forced his father, who was the better leader, into exile. Suddenly, this boy who knew nothing, and had no morals, was handed power and wealth in one day. You can just imagine how that would make him totally delusional. He had the ambition but he did not possess any wisdom.

In 1978, Khomeini's "Black Tide" swept through the streets as a stern rebuke against the Shah's "White Revolution." 

The tide was turning fast because the Shah had no solution. Nassiri claimed to be a "Moslem" because he thought that would save him, as if the I.R.I. care about religion at all. Religion was just a front, that could provide them with cover for their criminal deeds. Most of the Iranians that have been executed by the I.R.I. were guys with the name "Mohammed." In Europe, most of the pedophile rapists are guys named "Mohammed." This proves that the name Mohammed is not from God. It is a demonic name that brings bad luck and fills a man with narcissistic thoughts that get him into trouble.

Prime Minister Hoveyda was an atheist.

They were smart, sophisticated men, but God was not with them, and they became easy victims of the devil as the Shah ran away from the battle.

As protests swelled and the Shah’s dictator style leadership grew weaker and weaker, with the Shah appearing on TV apologizing (which meant that he had lost the fight), Nassiri was dismissed and sent to Pakistan as ambassador—a measure that was both meant to appease the angry mob and to protect Nassiri as the government was quickly crumbling. But when dealing with Islamic extremists, there is no appeasement, there is no forgiveness, there is no end to the vengeance. The only solution, if you want peace, is to kill or imprison every Islamic extremist in your country. That is the only way to deal with them.

The  Shah proved he was unworthy when he ran from Iran for the second time, refusing to stand his ground and fight after claiming his leadership was divine destiny and that he was the "King of Kings." 

The generals abandoned him because he had treated everyone as if they were his household servants.

Khomeini never ran away from threats.

The Shah should have acted early in late 1971 when the terrorists disrupted the party that had happened, where the Shah was showcasing Iran and establishing ties with the world of nations to do business with them. He let Khomeini spread blatant lies about the party, which was actually a brilliant idea from the Shah, and would have brought trillions of dollars to Iran. In some areas of interest, the Shah was brilliant. But he lacked the moral courage that was needed to eliminate all the terrorists and their leaders. He could have set up slave labor camps in the desert and placed three million terrorists in the camps, forcing them to work to earn their keep. He was smart but did not have enough genius or street fighting guts to keep Iran on the track to success.

The Shah harmed his reputation by fleeing Iran in January 1979, along with an Alitalia jumbo jet filled with gold and cash. He chose to believe that the C.I.A. would help him but why would they help someone who just lost his power? The C.I.A. isn't a charity. They are a Satanic organization who work for the devil and his human offspring the globalists.   

In all of history, only a handful of men and women, anointed by God, were successful as leaders (Cyrus, Elizabeth the Virgin Queen, and George Washington - all three of whom were descended from Persia). There are literally NO other leaders or governments that were successful. NONE.

That is why NEW IRAN will not have one person on the top. Leave that seat empty for God.

Nassiri, ever loyal to Iran, and no coward, returned to Iran, dismissing a personal plea from the Shah to stay away. He reminds me of my father, who every few years, says that he's going to take a trip to Iran. Then I have to warn him that the government will arrest him the moment he arrives (because he used to be a big supporter of the Shah before the Shah died and used to organize pro-Shah rallies).  

Nassiri was arrested and imprisoned alongside other regime stalwarts. Nassiri was the top man throughout his life and was conditioned to believe that everyone was in awe of him. So he assumed that if he returned to Iran, that the dumb peasant Khomeini would be grateful to have him, because Nassiri assumed that Khomeini was a man of God. But Khomeini was a demon with no mercy in his soul. He was no different than an MS-13 gang member from El Salvador. Just another useless dummy pushing Satan's agenda to destroy civilization.  

On February 15, 1979, in a converted classroom turned courtroom, Nassiri faced a summary trial. Apparently he learned what pain is. They had beaten and tortured him. He looked frail and tired.  His hands were trembling. Hours later, he was executed by firing squad—alongside Generals Rahimi, Naji, and Khosrodad.  

Nassiri was confident that the low-class Revolutionaries would bow down to him and would receive him with gratitude and trembling. But instead of welcoming him, they shoved him into a van with no windows, slapped him on his ear a few times, and put a bag over his head.  

Khomeini’s thugs didn’t just want to kill. They wanted to erase the souls of the former establishment. Revolutionary Komitehs hunted them down. The people who were the underclass, the manservants, the garbage men, the dishwashers, the laborers, suddenly became the leaders, and were drunk on power. In history, when the lower peasants gained power, it always turned into Genocide beause the lower class have crude brains. You should always remember that they are in the low-class because their ancestors had no moral code. When people live like savages with no morals, their descendants become cursed and physically ugly. But when the descendants are too blessed, they become too strong and too good-looking, and turn into sociopathic bullies.

General Oveisi was machine-gunned in Paris, 1984. A professional hit.

In Iran, General Jahanbani, whose Air Force had saved Khomeini and saved Iran and saved millions of Iranian lives, was dragged from his home, put on trial by a bunch of ugly gangbangers, and executed.

General Bahram Aryana, Chief of Staff, escaped to lead a government-in-exile that never was. One of the leaders, a young prince, was shot dead on a street in Paris.

 




The Priests’ Praetorians - The IRGC Rises


The low-class generals were a different breed. They didn’t come from military academies; they came from the streets, slums, villages, and mosques. Their loyalty wasn’t to a nation, but to a violent religious cult that opposed God and opposed God's laws.  They were identical to the low-class Talmudist Israeli settlers.

The Iran-Iraq War helped decide who would rise to the top in the coming years.

Like Major General Mohsen Rezaei, who commanded the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and sent waves of young Basijis into Iraqi minefields. Their way of waging war was crude like their ghetto upbringing.

Everything was for the cult.

Was Rezai any different than General William Tecumseh Sherman who sent his soldiers into metal storms of cannon and rifle fire to die by the thousands with each charge?

Funny enough, an American prophet says that Jesus told him that, "The Persians are masters of war." 

Out of the hell of Iranian extremism, emerged Qasem Soleimani, a child laborer / construction worker who was a descendant of King David and became a master of the game. He didn't lead armies in the field; he led proxy networks in the shadows. He was the planner for a wider conflict that sought help the oppressed through Islamic fanaticism, but after 1400 years it should be clear that Islam made everything worse.

Out of necessity, and like George Washington, he had to look to asymmetric warfare when challenging the biggest superpower-military-industrial-complex: America.

He operated as a general but was called "Commander." He did not oversee a traditional division.

At Friday gatherings of fanatics, he would gently read poetry from the pulpit.

When a Russian pilot’s fighter jet went down deep in ISIS territory, Soleimani personally led a unit into the viper’s nest of the serial killer Caliphate and successfully rescued him, which was a deed that took enormous amounts of courage.

In history, King Solomon’s father was King David who was a warrior king. In an eerie twist to the storyline, King David shared Soliemani’s fondness for poetry. His poetry in the Bible is called the book of Psalms, and reads like a personal journey of his life's struggles.

In another eerie twist, King David led a unit of men deep into Philistine territory to take back King Saul, whose dried up corpse was hung up in a beer hall as a decoration after he died during a battle.

The Philistines of old, who were of Greek origins, were similar to ISIS.   

God did say that all the old stories were going to play again in this new era of conflict we have entered.




The Shadow Command 



Today’s IRGC high command is a closed fist. General Hossein Salami, the Commander-in-Chief who was killed by an Israeli missile that struck his apartment in June 2025, killing his family and his neighbors, was a firebrand. His rhetoric wasn’t about defense; it was about saving the impoverished from the death machine of the West.

Salami didn’t kill civilians. His targets were soldiers and terrorists. It seems exaggerative, dishonest, and incongruent for American political figures to keep referring to him as a “terrorist.” He was merely the military's face of resolve.

In a strange twist, just days before his death, he publicly stated that “freedom makes a nation stronger,” signaling his willingness to support a new, freer government.  




Hard Men


The real power lies in the Quds Force, Soleimani’s old group. General Ahmad Haqtalab, head of IRGC Intelligence. A ghost. He’s the man who knows where every corpse is buried because he ordered the hit. His power is absolute fear. 

General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a Quds Force commander, and his deputy, General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, were killed while in Syria.  

They were supposedly discussing final authorization for a complex operation.

The replacements were immediate.

Zahedi was succeeded by his deputy, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan. A colder version of his predecessor. He too was killed.

Born in 1966 in Isfahan, Nilforoushan impressively joined the Basij paramilitary force at just 14, diving headfirst into the Iran–Iraq War. He rose through the ranks of the IRGC’s elite divisions—the 14th Imam Hossein and the 8th Najaf Ashraf Armored Division—serving as platoon commander, battalion leader, and eventually deputy operations chief under the legendary Ahmad Kazemi.

By the 2000s, he was shaping doctrine at the IRGC Command and Staff College, and by 2019, he was the Deputy Commander for Operations, overseeing Iran’s military footprint across the region. Nilforoushan wasn’t just a soldier—he was a strategist. He believed in “strategic depth”: the idea that Iran’s security doesn’t stop at its borders but extends through a web of loyal militias and proxy forces.

His philosophy was simple: don’t fight where you’re weak—fight where they’re vulnerable. This is eerie because God gave a prophecy about Iran a few years ago, describing Iran as a leopard that waits for the opportune moment, then grabs its victim by the neck and lets the blood drain.

In April 2024, after the assassination of IRGC General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, Nilforoushan took over his command. It was a promotion born of chaos—and it made him a dead man walking. The high command only sent the ones who were a threat to Khamenei to the dangerous areas. Nilforoushan was sent into the "Kill Zone Triangle" to be slaughtered like the others.

Basically, all the commanders who refused to take Khamenei's bribes, were the ones sent into the kill zone.

Soleimani had become more popular than Khamenei, and was a threat to Khamenei's plan to install his son as leader, so Khamenei sent Soleimani to the kill zone to die.

Nilforoushan was already sanctioned by the U.S., EU, Canada, and Australia for his role in suppressing the 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests.

His death sent shockwaves through the IRGC. He wasn’t just another general—he was the man who knew the playbook.

Nilforoushan wasn’t the public face like Qaani. He was the forward operator—the one who made things happen. His absence leaves a vacuum in Iran’s regional command structure.

In the end, Abbas Nilforoushan didn’t just fight wars—he designed them. And now, the blueprint he left behind may be more dangerous than the man himself.  

The old guard, the warhorses like Salami, wanted a direct, thunderous response. They wanted to hit a U.S. warship. Something symbolic. Something bloody.

The new intelligence wing, led by the shadowy Haqtalab, argues this is folly. Their assessment, pulled from intercepted Saudi and Emirati diplomatic traffic, suggests the Americans are begging for that kind of action. The Western cabal were looking for a good enough reason to declare war on Iran. Eventually, intelligence suggests that the Black Ops wing of the I.D.F. will sink an American battleship and say that Iran did it. Around a dozen American prophets and the Iranian government recently mentioned that the Epstein Cabal will set off a mini-nuke in New York and blame it on Iran, and that this will set off a huge war and the destruction of the American economy (which is what the Epstein Cabal want, so that Israel will become the masters over the West).

As horrible as that scenario is, especially for the sailors who are killed, it would eventually lead to Iran being set free as armies eliminate each other in battle.   

The Americans, or more accurately, the globalists, want the pretext for a full-scale engagement. Haqtalab’s faction wants to double down on the shadow war and do things like in the leopard analogy. More deniable attacks. More cyber. More slow, strangling pressure on U.S. interests everywhere but the Persian Gulf. Basically, bleed America and Israel out.

But Haqtalab does not know prophecy and will just be another corpse, especially with a demonic Islamic name like "Haqtalab." Yuck. You can tell by someone's name if they will be defeated. I haven't heard his name mentioned in the news in 2025 or even 2026, so I assume he is in the deep underground mountain fortress.

Haqtalab's Playbook calls for avoidance of a Persian Gulf War, and yet, God warns that this is where the world conflict will start.

With regards to the West wanting Iran to hit a ship, so that they can have the pretext to get approval from the Senate for a war, the prophecy, what the West wants, and Haqtalab’s fears … all line up to create the perfect war narrative. Every war going back four centuries started with the sinking of a ship.

It will be what allows the American superpower military to commit to a land invasion of Iran. The globalists think that they will do what they did to Iraq and Syria (secretly take control as primitive tribes endlessly fight each other).

This could also be the prophecy in the ancient Hebrew book of Daniel where he saw that in the end times the king of the north would invade the king of the south with a mighty army and would sweep through. But then the king of the north disappears.

Nostradamus, half a Millennium ago, also saw that there would be a war between Persia and a new country, and that the new country would invade Persia with a million men.  He got his quatrains (prophecies posed as riddles) from Satan.

Brigadier General Ahmad Haqtalab, commander within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), currently leads the Nuclear Facilities Protection and Security Command, a specialized unit tasked with safeguarding Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Haqtalab gained attention in April 2024 when he issued a warning: if Israel targets Iran’s nuclear sites, Iran would retaliate by striking Israel’s nuclear facilities with advanced weaponry. His rhetoric reflects a strategic posture rooted in deterrence and escalation control, and he’s considered a key voice in shaping Iran’s nuclear doctrine amid rising regional tensions.

In 2026, Iran struck the Dimona Israel nuclear facility, killing a dozen or so scientists and causing a radiation leak.

While he’s not the top IRGC commander, his role places him at the intersection of military strategy, nuclear policy, and geopolitical signaling.  





What Happens Next? 


The chessboard is set. The king’s knight has been taken, but the game is far from over. The rift between the hawks and the strategists will widen. The hardliner bluster versus Haqtalab’s piecemeal twilight war. This internal power struggle is a curious one. 

And the Americans? They’re watching. They’re waiting. They think they’ve fatally wounded the I.R.I regime just because a few leaders were killed. They’re wrong. The wolves in the wing are more aggressive and more technology savvy.  



Assessing the Planners


The intended successors—the deep bench—are gone. But that's not a problem. The successors are much smarter and able. The Israeli strikes did the I.R.I. a huge favor by eliminating the old Luddites who were slowing everyone down.

The New Intelligence Faction assessment, based on intercepted signals and human intelligence deep within adversary command structures, was promising: The Americans and Israelis were on full alert, their rules of engagement pre-authorized for a massive escalation. The Big Game was on.



The Final Assessment 


remains the same, but the stakes are higher. The internal power struggle is now a cold war within a hot command. Salami’s hard-hitter faction vs. Haqtalab’s cold calculus.   

The Generals of Iran are now playing a game on two battlefields.

The wrong strategy doesn't just mean losing a conflict; it means the end of the Islamic Republic.

The heirs to Soleimani's shadow war have become hunted targets in their own country.


Why "Gray Swan"? 


The term "Gray Swan" is a conceptual twist on the well-known "Black Swan" theory (an unpredictable, high-impact event). A "Gray Swan" is a high-impact event that is possible to predict and prepare for because it lies within the realm of known possibilities, even if it is unlikely. In the context of the story, the Israeli planners knew that assassinating top Iranian commanders on home soil was a massive escalation (a "Swan" event) but one they could plan for and execute based on known intelligence and capabilities—making it "Gray" rather than a completely unknown "Black Swan" event.




Here is a page (on this website) of pictures of Iranian generals