Donald Trump caused a great stir in the last 48 hours after posting on his Truth Social account with an AI-generated image depicting himself as a Messiah-like figure wearing white attire with a red shawl, healing the sick. This egotistical image caused quite the backlash online and in the media, resulting in Trump deleting the post from his account.

Mahmoud’s longing for truth led him to stumble onto a short video online of Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq talking. What he heard captivated him, deeply compelling him to find out who this man was. After a while, in 2025, he managed to identify the speaker by finding The Mahdi Has Appeared YouTube channel. He noticed that what he saw in the videos on the channel was free from any errors or fallacies, and this was a rarity on his journey.

I was a soldier in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and I was very afraid that they would find out I had changed my religion. I have suffered many injustices because of this. I tried to flee Iran by air on December 9, 2022, but the Ministry of Intelligence had banned my exit. My passport was confiscated at the airport, and I was given a paper telling me I had to appear before the Religious Court.

I have been subjected to harassment and persecution by both the government and my family because of my faith in the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. In Iran, there is no freedom of belief, and in the Islamic Republic, anyone who changes their religion is considered an apostate. Public expression of this belief may result in imprisonment and, in some cases, execution.

Today, Iran is a different place than it was on the 25th of February. In less than one month, the instability that started at the end of December and intensified throughout January, as previously documented, with protests on the streets against the government and violence erupting as reported in the global news press, culminated in the airstrike that ended the life of Ali Khamenei on the 28th of February.