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Ep. 4116 Something Is KILLING The IRGC… and It Isn't U.S. or Israel!!! · Turley Talks

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As the bombs stop falling and the headlines go quiet, something astonishing is happening inside Iran.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're now learning that the most powerful institution in the Islamic Republic, the IRGC, is falling.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's rotting from the inside out, and by the time you finish this video, you're going to understand why the silence right now is far more dangerous for Tehran than any bomb ever was.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's because the real threat to the IRGC and to the regime itself isn't coming from Washington or Tel Aviv, it's coming from inside the house.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Islamic Republic is in a crisis, a mortal crisis.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A crisis that risks its very existence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Iran's regime is being squeezed on nearly every front at once.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Its currency is collapsed roughly 260% against a dollar since October of 2023, with the IMF Pegging inflation at 69% year over year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: China, its last major oil customer, has cut purchases by about 40%.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: stripping Tehran of its remaining heart-currency lifeline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Infrastructures failing in parallel, 19 major dams running dry and obsolete power grid and mass fuel shortages despite Iran sitting on vast oil reserves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Politically, they supposedly installed a new Supreme Leader who no one has ever seen since the installment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have a fractured government with hardliners and clerics publicly clashing over whether to fight or negotiate, unpaid wages, degrading housing, and rampant inflation that spawn the massive uprisings in January continue to plague the land.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, the IRGC itself is bleeding from border insurgency, internal executions, unresolved assassinations, and officer defections, leaving a regime facing military, economic, infrastructural, political, and institutional collapse, converging simultaneously with no ally rushing to its rescue.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As we speak, the U.S. and force blockade continues to economically starve Iran of half the billion dollars a day in lost oil revenue.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The regime is beginning to slow, but inevitable process of complete and total collapse, and we could see it from at least five different vantage points.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: First and foremost, there is, of course, the economic strangulation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In any economy, money is oxygen, and Iran is running out of it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: War historian Victor Davis Hanson has noted that Trump's strategy here mirrors windfield scots old anaconda plan from the civil war.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Squeeze the south ports, cut off its trade, star of its industry, and let time do the rest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what's happening to Iran right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: more than 50,000 American troops remain in theater.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The blockade is one of the most successful embargo and debanking operations of the modern era.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Iran is losing and estimated $4,500 million a day in economic output.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Half a billion dollars every.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: single day, and it's not just the West squeezing them, China, as we noted, Iran's last major oil customer, the one country that was still buying discounted Iranian crew to keep its manufacturing engine running cheap.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've cut its Iranian oil purchased by roughly 40%.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: China was the last vestige of anything resembling an economy for Tehran, without Beijing's checkbook, Iran generally does not have an economy left to speak of.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The currency tells the same story in numbers he simply can't spend.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In October 2023, one U.S. dollar was equivalent to 500,000 Iranian reals on the parallel market.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By this summer, that same dollar, now calls 1.8 million reels, a 260% collapse in under 3 years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The IMF puts Iran's inflation at 69% year over year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Simply put, Iran's economic spiral is unsustainable.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But along with this economic strangulation, there's the infrastructure collapse, frankly nobody's talking about right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is where it gets even worse for Tehran because even if the war were to end tomorrow, this next crisis doesn't go away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Iran is facing what can only be described as a triple infrastructure disaster.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Water, power, and fuel, water, power, and fuel all failing simultaneously.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 19 major dams across the country are running dry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After years of drought and decades of water mismanagement that predate this war entirely, and here's the vicious cycle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: water systems need electricity to run pumps and treatment plants.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So when the grid fails, the water fails with it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Iran, I think about this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a country sitting on some of the largest hydrocarbon reserves on the planet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They can't even reliably keep the lights on at its own cities, because decades of under-investment have left the power infrastructure obsolete.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's the fuel shortage, the country's a top global oil producer and yet the naval blockade and disrupted domestic infrastructure have created actual gasoline, vulnerability for trucks, ambulances, farm equipment, factories, a ceasefire could stop the bombs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It can't instantly refill a reservoir, rebuild a power grid, or reverse 30 years of under-investment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the disaster that this regime finds itself in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it gets even worse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a leadership vacuum eating itself alive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Most of the Buckehmani is nominally the new Supreme Leader, but no one knows if he's even alive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Insiders are openly describing the state of the regime as a war of thugs scrambling over dwindling survival mechanisms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The heartliners and the parliamentarians are openly clashing with each other.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Negotiators are being called traitors and confrontations are being accused of being suicidal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: clerics are fighting each other on state television.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a regime beginning to cannibalize itself in real time for all to see.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But something even deeper, more ominous is happening inside the regime.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: a dark web of betrayal, mystery, and murder.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is where the revolutionary guard itself comes in, because the IRGC isn't just losing generals and air strikes, it's bleeding from at least four different directions that have nothing to do with Washington or Tel Aviv.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So first there is a genuine sustained insurgency along the Pakistani border, led by Jayesh Al Adal, a SUNY separatist group that's killed IRGC and Pazij
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Second, there's been an internal judicial purge that sent at least 11 people to the gallows on espionage charges since the war began with Amnesty International, documenting more than 6,000 arbitrary arrests, and at least 39 political executions, many of them tied not to actual spying, but to people who simply took part in or reported on the mass protests.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Third, there's been a pattern of ambiguous, unresolved deaths inside the officer corps itself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this actually goes back to 2022 when I, or G.C.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Colonel Hassan Siyad Kodai was assassinated and his Colonel friend died days later in what Iranian officials called a suicide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but Iran International sources described as a staged execution by the guard's own internal security branch over suspicion that he had leaked classified information.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then forth, there's the Exodus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Since the beginning of 2026, a growing number of mid-ranking IRGC officers have reportedly been fleeing the country through Turkey and Azerbaijan choosing defaction over the risk of becoming the
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then finally underneath all of it, there's of course the Iranian people themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The 2025 and 2026 protest movement was one of the largest waves of civil unrest in the Islamic Republic's history met with a brutal crackdown that some estimates put it tens of thousands of civilian deaths.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it hasn't stopped.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Recent reports do describe coordinated protests spanning multiple provinces, retirees marching against hyperinflation in the extreme heat, housing applicants, staging sit-ins, hundreds of medical staff walking out over unpaid wages.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a population that's already proven in blood.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That it is willing to march in the gunfire over a currency that no longer buys literally anything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, here's the picture and it's bigger than any single headline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You got American bombs that have completely degraded Iran's military capabilities rendering them an inert.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You've got China, Iran's last financial lifeline walking away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You've got a currency that's lost over 70% of its value against the dollar under three years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You've got a water, power, and fuel system crisis collapsing under the weight of decades of mismanagement that no ceasefire can fix.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You've got a leaderless, faceless, supreme leader whose own inner circle is publicly fighting on state television.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You've got the IRGC itself, the very institution that's supposed to hold this regime together, hemorrhaging officers to a broader insurgency and internal execution machine, unresolved assassinations within its own ranks, and the slow trickle of defectors, who no longer trust the organization to protect them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: None of these forces individually would topple the Islamic Republic, but all of these pressures converging at the very exact same time, military, economic, infrastructural, political, and institutional collapse hitting simultaneously with no ally willing to bail them out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There ain't no way out of that one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's not a regime under pressure anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a regime running out of runway on every single front at once.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And when historians write the real story of what finally brought down the Islamic Republic, I don't think it's going to be the missile strikes for the economic strangulation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be the slow, painful degradation of that regime that rotted from within.
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