BETRAYAL! Iran Leaders TURN AGAINST IRGC! END OF ISLAMIC REVOLUTION Begins? Civilians FINALLY Rise!

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:06]Something extraordinary is happening inside Iran right now as we speak. Not on a battlefield, not even in a negotiating room, not over the straight of Hormos. It is happening inside the corridors of the Islamic Republic itself where the hardliners are now eating each other for the first time in years.

[00:00:29]Voices from within Iran's own conservative establishment are turning on their most radical fringe. They are calling them dangerous, destabilizing and embarrassment and own goal for the revolution. And right in the middle of this political civil war is one man, Iran's [music] President Masud Peshkan.

[00:00:54]a moderate, a reformist, a man who has spent the last several months being squeezed from all the sides by an IRGC that sidelined him, by hardliners who wanted him gone, and by a supreme leader whose silence everyone has been trying to understand [music] for months now.

[00:01:15]And now the tables may just may be turning. Hello and welcome. I am Nikita Kapoor and you are watching Decode. And in this episode, we decode a crack inside the wall of Thran. A crack so wide that it is finally eating the hardline Iran Revolutionary Guard call life and giving way to the civilian [music] leadership. Let's go back to where this started. April 2026, Iran and the United States struck a ceasefire. fragile, contested, bitterly negotiated.

[00:01:52]President Masoud Pzeshkan accepted it and for a brief moment the world exiled.

[00:01:59]But inside Iran, the hardliners were furious. Iran's conservative establishment had been watching closely as Pzeshan spent recent weeks defending both the ceasefire and his nuclear negotiating team. Then came the viral moment. A lawmaker, a hardline member of parliament named Kamran Gazani. He accused President Masud Peshkan of bypassing the supreme leader of Iran himself. And he went further. He argued that by halting military operations, Masoud Peshkan had, and I'm paraphrasing here, saved America and Israel from destruction. that Iran's missiles were about to finish the job and the president had pulled [music] them back.

[00:02:54]But then something nobody expected happened.

[00:03:01]The hardliners attacked their own. Not reformists, not Pzeskan's allies, Iran's own mainstream conservative establishment. Figures with deep ties [music] to the security apparatus turned on Gazanfuri. Publicly, sharply, two prominent conservative figures publicly condemned the hardline MP Abbas [music] Salimi Namin, a hardline commentator, IRGC loyalist, speaking to a pro-reform website [music] and Abdullah Ganji writing in the IRGC linked Jawan [music] newspaper. Let that sink in for a second. Viewers, an editorial criticizing an ultra hardline MP, an IRGC loyalist published in an IRGC linked newspaper. That is not a small thing. Salimi Namin's warning was direct. Extremism damages the system from within. He said the presence of radical hardliners in the parliament is a disaster for Iran. [music] Then came Ganji. He reminded the IRGC that under article 110 of the Iranian constitution, decisions on war, peace and major strategic shifts rest with the Supreme Leader and the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. [music] Not something any president can just bypass on a whim. That is not possible.

[00:04:36]Now you might be thinking, okay, this is Iranian political theater. Factions are squabbbling. Why does it matter? It matters because it is a window into a much deeper and much more dangerous [music] crisis at the very heart of the Islamic Republic. Let's rewind. Since March 2026, Iran has had a new supreme leader, Moshtaba Kamini, [music] the son of the late Ayatah Ali Kamini, who assumed office following his father's assassination in the first wave of [music] USIsraeli attacks. But here's where it gets complicated. Moshtabak Kamini was elevated largely under pressure from the IRGC commanders.

[00:05:22]Senior analysts say he owes his appointment to the revolutionary [music] guards and has effectively become a rubber stamp. His role is to approve, not formulate, not question any military decisions. In other words, [music] the man at the very top of Iran's power structure may not actually be running [music] things.

[00:05:45]Real power, according to intelligence assessments by multiple sources, lies with a hardline group operating through the Supreme National Security Council and the IRGC, [music] which now shapes Iran's military and political direction. Leadership is fragmented and responses to US Iran negotiations can take days now. And where does that leave Peshkan?

[00:06:15]Now reports emerged last week that the president and the civilian government had been effectively excluded from major decision making processes [music] and that a vacuum created by this situation had enabled hardline factions within the IRGC to take control of Iran. Peshkan himself reportedly described himself as unable to run the government and carry out his own duties and responsibilities.

[00:06:48]So what we are watching right now in real time is not just a fight between reformist president and hardline MPs. We are watching a rupture inside Iran's rightwing itself for the first time ever. Hardliners want to preserve the narrative of resistance and project revolutionary legitimacy. While more pragmatic elements appear to understand that sanctions relief and economic recovery require [music] some form of negotiated accommodation.

[00:07:22]The ultra radicals believe no deal should ever be made with America or Israel, that the ceasefire was a betrayal, that Peshkan is a traitor. The mainstream conservatives, including [music] those with IRGC ties, have finally started to realize something dangerous here. If the ultra radicals are allowed to run unchecked, they will destroy the very system they claim to be protecting here. They will alienate [music] the public. They will give the state no room to maneuver. They will make diplomacy impossible for Iran. And so for now, they are pushing back [music] not out of love for Masud Peshkan and not out of belief in reform, but out of cold institutional self-preservation.

[00:08:13]The ceasefire with the United States remains on life support. Inside Iran, the IRGC is [music] still the dominant force. Moshtavaka Kamini is still an untested [music] supreme leader. And the ultra hardliners haven't disappeared, viewers. [music] They've just been embarrassed. That is not the same thing as being defensed.

[00:08:37]Pzeshan, for his part, has not emerged victorious either. He is still operating in a system designed [music] to contain him. But he has for now found unlikely protectors [music] in the very camp that was supposed to be against him. In Iran, that's not nothing. That might even be [music] everything right now. Whether Peshkan survives or not, whether the ceasefire holds, whether the IRGC tightens its [music] grip or overplays its hand, we don't know yet.

[00:09:13]But we do know this. When hardliners start policing their own hardliners, something inside the system has cracked.

[00:09:22]The question is not whether the crack is there. The question is how wide does it get. I am Nikita Kapoor and what do you think about it? Tell us in the comment section below.