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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/02/whisper-it-but-trumps-blockade-is-working/
The Islamic Republic Is in Disarray
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - A mural recently unveiled near Qom "mistakenly" included Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader, in a gallery of martyrs, and the state-run Tasnim News Agency "mistakenly" referred to him as the "martyred leader of the revolution." The leadership of the regime - or what is left of it - is in disarray. It can't decide if its figurehead is alive or dead, while its armed forces, air defenses, munitions production capabilities, and petrochemical and steel industries are devastated. More than a million Iranians are out of work, amid soaring food prices and an internet blackout that has strangled online commerce. Strikes have been raging across all 31 provinces; the Iranian rial has surged to 1.81 million against the dollar.