🇮🇷 | With days passing, parents of martyrs are coming forward and urging the Iranian authorities to take severe punishment against the rioters. A father said, “My son was martyred while coming back from work. I request the authorities to impose the severest punishment on the perpetrators of the recent terrorist incidents.”

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✅ | The main concern is that this move may target a majority of important figures and influential personalities associated with the movement, creating serious long-term consequences for its structure and impact. The decision carries wide political, legal, and social implications, especially given the group’s visible mobilization around the Gaza war and its indirect influence on Muslim communities in the United States. In Lebanon, the Islamic Group has historically functioned as a political and social actor within the country’s pluralistic system and participated in the so-called support front during the Gaza war through political backing and mobilization that largely respected Lebanon’s internal balance. Reframing such activity as terrorism is less a legal determination than a political reclassification shaped by regional and international pressures aligned with Israeli strategic interests. More broadly, the designation raises serious concerns for Muslims in the U.S., as terrorist labeling triggers sanctions including travel restrictions, asset freezes, financial prohibitions, and criminal liability for any form of engagement, with effects extending beyond leadership to charities, civil society networks, and community institutions. Legal experts warn that asylum seekers who cited persecution based on alleged ties to the Brotherhood may now face uncertainty, while U.S. citizens with past ideological, social, or charitable associations risk scrutiny due to the lack of a clear legal definition of what constitutes the Brotherhood. This move also cannot be separated from the unprecedented mobilization around Gaza inside the U.S., where millions of American Muslims have shaped public debate through protests, voter education, and student activism that challenged bipartisan support for Israel’s war and influenced electoral discourse in key states. Political and media responses have increasingly framed this mobilization as a threat, often conflating criticism of Israel with extremism, turning the terrorism label into a tool to discipline dissent rather than address legitimate grievances. Ultimately, the designation signals a dangerous expansion of counterterrorism into the sphere of political opposition, with implications that extend far beyond West Asia and threaten civil liberties, free expression, and Muslim communities already under heightened suspicion.

What is clear is that Jordan and Lebanon are likely to move toward targeting members and scholars of the movement in the coming hours, primarily to appease the United States, while it remains to be seen how Egypt will respond to this designation and whether it will escalate its actions in a similar manner.

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✅ | In the past 24 hours, none of Iran’s cities have witnessed unrest. Despite this, Trump tweeted and called on rioters to take over institutions. Where are the rioters? If they exist, let them come out and become history — Plastic bags are ready.

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☑️ | Yes, not only the entire West but the whole world expects a few, whatever is ongoing seems to be dangerous at this moment and has never happened before, and we wish Iran at such scenarios have some options to change the dynamics.

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✅ | At this moment, what we are beginning to see are surprises from Iran and the Axis of Resistance when the time comes. Whatever is going to happen, what we know internally and what is available to the public suggests that if this war expands, it will bring surprises that will change the global narrative. One thing will be clear: Iran will emerge victorious with major achievements.

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🇮🇷 | Dr. Ali Larijani’s response to Trump’s bluster

After Trump called on armed terrorists to continue their activities in Iran’s streets and said, “Remember the names of the killers,” Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, responded:

We will announce the names of the real killers of the Iranian people:

1. Trump

2. Netanyahu.

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🟨 | Hezbollah's statement:

In Praise of the Million‑Strong Marches in the Islamic Republic of Iran and in Rejection of U.S. Interference in Its Internal Affairs

Hezbollah honors the million-strong marches that took place across the Islamic Republic of Iran in support of the Islamic system and stability. These demonstrations clearly expressed the true orientation of the Iranian people, united around the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran under Imam Khamenei (may his shadow be extended), along with the government and all state institutions.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is an independent and sovereign state whose people freely chose its system, laws, and constitution. Since the victory of its revolution in 1979, Iran has faced global aggression sponsored by the United States aimed at undermining this ethical, popular, Islamic, and independent experiment.

Despite the economic challenges arising from sanctions and aggression, Iran remains resilient, continues to develop its capabilities across various sectors, and works to serve its people within a system based on free and fair elections. It also upholds the right of people to protest and demonstrate peacefully. However, the United States insists on sabotaging Iran from within and uses the Zionist entity as a tool of crime, murder, and chaos to overthrow the popular Iranian system.

It has been proven through images, statements, and evidence that American and Israeli agents exploit small groups to infiltrate demonstrations, turning them into chaos and destruction, including burning mosques, government and security centers, and public property. These are criminal acts that have nothing to do with legitimate demands or the right to protest. Trump and Netanyahu even claim to speak on behalf of the demonstrators because they lack real presence and leadership internally. These groups are a handful of agents directed by the U.S. and Israel, who carried out a 12-day aggression against Iran to topple the system, which failed and was thoroughly exposed.

Hezbollah affirms its full support for the choice of the Iranian people and their leadership and stresses that, God willing, the Islamic Republic of Iran will remain steadfast, strong, and independent.

Hezbollah Media Relations
Tuesday, 13‑01‑2026
23 Rajab 1447 AH

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