Faith in the Crossfire: Iran’s Crackdown Intensifies

The Divine Just State magazine published an article about ‘The Coming Wrath Of God Upon Iran’ on the 25th of February; before the elimination of Ali Khamenei, the despotic ruler and oppressor of Iran. That article went into great detail about the persecution faced by the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light from the so-called Islamic Republic of Iran. Since then, Ali Khamenei perished in an airstrike conducted by the Israeli-American coalition, which Iran claims, started a campaign to destroy Iran and terminate the threat posed by Iran in the Middle East and in particular to Israel. 

As we reported, this was foretold by Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq in his Sermon published on the 23rd of January on The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light YouTube channel, with the title: A Global Address by the Mahdi Aba Al-Sadiq on the 11th Anniversary of the Appearance. He had precisely said:

“And the Prophet Mohammed said: ‘May God curse Khosrow’ the Shah of Persia. ‘Verily, the first of the people to be destroyed is Persia and then the Arabs.’ And that's what you see coming to pass. Today, Persia is about to be destroyed, and tomorrow, after that, will be the Arabs. So today I have conveyed what I was commanded to convey.”

The finer details of this particular story can be read in the article itself. This is not the purpose of this article. 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. Since that day, the situation on the ground in Iran has become less coherent and more unpredictable. The propaganda war has impacted information to a predictable extent, making it much more difficult to ascertain what is going on within the country. The remnants of the Iranian regime, with their contingency plans, have lashed out at anything and everything possible to destabilise the world economy in retaliation and to force out a dragged-out war with those who dared to strike Iran so intensely and extensively. The situation in Iran has magnified to the point where there is more political volatility, which in turn has forced an escalation of the violence perpetrated by the regime to safeguard its future. 

This situation has resulted in more severe consequences for the Iranian believers in the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, which is largely ignored by the global press as a less relevant story to cover, and as such, it is the responsibility of this publication to highlight this fact and bring as much attention to it as possible. Human Rights abuses should never be allowed to take place anywhere in the world for whatever reason. Essentially, these latest developments must be covered in the context of the struggles faced by the believers in Iran and those of Iranian descent living outside Iran. So, contact with the believers in Iran has completely halted due to the internet infrastructure disappearing in the past few weeks and the persecution reaching a crescendo with the murders of several believers as reported in Facebook posts by the leader of the faith Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq. 

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In another development, a believer residing in Georgia was recently contacted by his family in Iran requesting that he take down his website because the Sepah have threatened to take action against them if the site is not taken down. The Sepah, officially known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is a powerful military organization in Iran established after the 1979 revolution to protect the Islamic Republic. It plays a significant role in Iran's military, political, and economic spheres, operating independently from the regular armed forces. This division of the Iranian armed forces is comparable to the SS or Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, initially formed as his personal bodyguard in 1925. It grew to become a powerful entity responsible for enforcing Nazi policies, managing concentration camps, and committing numerous war crimes during World War II.

This incident came to light on Friday the 20th of March 2026, and was reported to DJS magazine by the Messenger of Iran, Hamidreza Saghari, who was contacted by the believer in Georgia to inform him of the situation.

As the war intensifies in Iran, the risks faced by any Iranians around the world who happen to believe in the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light continue to magnify as the regime threatens to take any action it sees as fitting to ensure its survival, especially against any voices seeking to expose their barbarism and immoral conduct when persecuting human beings exercising their basic rights continues to exist.