News From Inside Iran: By the ITC Intelligence Resources, Issue 28, 09/05/2023 Iran Assessment

“Disintegration of the Islamic Regime Infrastructure.”

IRGC intelligence reports the employees of the telecommunication company, in many cities, have collected significant number of signatures from people committing themselves for mass protests. In the week ahead, they will be congregating in front of provincial governor’s HQ and other relevant governmental directorates protesting on the dire living conditions. Currently, telecom retirees are holding protest rallies right across the country for the same issue.

The IRGC Naval Command has conducted 35 maritime border location field trials last week in the Persian Gulf. In these trials the IRGC-built stealth boats have entered the UAE and Iraq territorial waters, for more than 20 kilometres, and returned to base without being detected. Thes exercises have been conducted in the framework of pre-operational plans for invasion.

The IRGC intelligence has also surveyed the number of attacks made on clerics and military personnels by people. The investigation reveals, some attacks are carried out to revenge the losses they have suffered by these people, but mostly were carried out during the street protests. Most of the assailants are still on the loose.

IRGC intelligence has further reported their overseas operatives in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey have been able organizing day demonstrations and night disturbances in favour of Kılıçdaroğlu’s election campaign against Erdoğan’s.

Military Security Section of the Armed Forces has made several personnel arrests in the Intelligent Ministry on charges of espionage and sales of classified information to hostile foreign agents.  The Ministry strongly objects the arrests claiming there is no valid evidence to support it. The Ministry has requested the Leadership (Ayatollah Khamenei) to intervene.

The Ministry of Intelligence has classified the effectiveness of the opposition media networks against the regime. In this classification the Iran-International Network has had the largest impact on people’s protests in the last few months. The network has been able to attract a very large audience and to organize streets’ protest. The regime usually blocks transmission to Iran but has failed to block this network. Blocking Internet, and/or reducing reception power has not been effective on this channel.  This is considered a very serious issue and ought to be at the top of the priority list of the Supreme National Security Council.

The Ministry also reports on an unusual presence of Israeli intelligence forces in the United Arab Emirates. The ministry believes Mossad have changed their covert operation behaviour and it is now more vulnerable. But Mossad conducts their operations exposed deliberately to be seen.

The Ministry further informs Israeli activities along the borders of several countries bordering with Iran, has increased last week. Investigation reveals several groups meet for producing operational maps in the east, south and west regions of Iran. It is said these activities have increased by six folds. The Ministry has identified 22 monitoring bases in 18 regions close to Iran’s borders including in Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, and the United Arab Emirates. The Ministry claims it is able and ready to attack these bases.