As rumors of domestic chaos, prison breaks, and deadly IRGC missile failures spread across Iranian social media, state television broadcast a bizarre claim that Ayatollah Khamenei will resurrect alongside the Mahdi.
Amidst extreme domestic volatility, an Iranian state television presenter claimed that "Imam Khamenei will appear alongside Imam Zaman [the Mahdi]." The broadcast was widely aggregated by channels like Immediate News, which reported the clip to tens of thousands of viewers. The heavily anti-regime channel Politics Cafe also shared the broadcast, framing it with deep hostility and describing it as the lying and dream-selling of the criminals of the Islamic Republic to criminal Shia kids.
Inside the unmoderated public chat channel Immediate News Group, users are starkly divided between regime loyalists praising military operations and panicked citizens reporting chaos. Loyalists boast about a heavy blow struck against the United States and Israel, with one user taunting that critics will understand when Israel and America's snouts are rubbed in the dirt. Following what appears to be the death of a major regime figure, loyalists claimed that with his departure he forced all US forces out of the region, and vowed that Trump and others will pay for their audacity.
Contrasting the loyalist bravado, ordinary citizens in the chat describe a nation fracturing under military stress. Users report significant communications disruptions, questioning why the internet was cut off to prevent people from checking on their families' well-being. Panic is evident in unverified citizen reports of military blunders. Multiple users claimed that an IRGC missile fired in Hamedan malfunctioned mid-air and plummeted into a residential building in the city, killing everyone inside. Furthermore, unverified accounts state that the entrance of Marivan prison was struck, resulting in a mass escape of inmates.
Deep cynicism toward the Iranian leadership permeates the chat. Citizens complained that officials' families have fled to Turkey and other safe havens, abandoning the public without shelter amidst the stress of missiles, explosions, and destroyed buildings. In the vacuum of reliable information, wild rumors are also circulating regarding the highest levels of leadership, including unverified claims of violent deaths involving Khamenei's daughter-in-law and son-in-law inside his residence.
The source messages from 'گروه خبر فوری' (Immediate News Group) function as an open comment section or public chat. The narratives here consist of highly polarized citizen reports, rumors, and propaganda from both regime loyalists and anti-regime citizens. Claims regarding the IRGC missile failure in Hamedan, the Marivan prison break, and the deaths within Khamenei's family are entirely unverified citizen reports reflecting an information vacuum and a high-stress, likely wartime, environment. The translations strictly preserve the inflammatory and loaded language used by both factions.