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Following the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, the regime is escalating repression at a dizzying pace.
According to Kasra Aarabi, the Islamic Republic is accelerating towards what he called a "North Korea-style model of isolation and control."
"We are witnessing a kind of internal isolation that will have huge consequences for the Iranian people," Aarabi told Fox News Digital. He said the regime has always been totalitarian, but the level of repression now is unprecedented. It's unlike anything we've seen before.
Aarabi, who maintains direct lines of contact in Iran, described a country under siege by its rulers. In Tehran, he described how citizens are randomly stopped, their phones confiscated and searched. "If you have content that is considered pro-Israel or mocks the regime, it disappears," he said. "People now leave their phones at home or delete everything before they go out."
This new wave of paranoia and fear, he explained, mirrors tactics seen in North Korea, where citizens disappear without explanation and information is tightly controlled. During the recent conflict, Iran’s leadership imposed a total internet blackout to isolate the population, blocking Israeli evacuation alerts and promoting propaganda that portrayed Israel as targeting civilians indiscriminately.
"It was a perverted target," Aarabi said, adding, "they deliberately disrupted communications to sow fear and manipulate public perception. For four days, no message was transmitted. Even Israeli evacuation alerts did not reach their targets."
The regime’s goal, he said, was twofold: to keep people off the streets and to destroy the surprising bond that had been forged between Iranians and Israelis. “At the beginning of the war, many Iranians welcomed the attacks,” Aarabi noted. “They knew that Israel was targeting the IRGC — the very forces responsible for oppressing and killing their people. But once the internet went down and fear spread, some began to question what was happening.”
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