A video circulating online, reported by Israeli analyst Or Ben Yehezkel, purportedly shows an Iranian soldier in regular army uniform appealing to US President Donald Trump to come and free the country from regime oppression. The soldier claims the entire army and civilians are waiting for Trump. Yehezkel noted that such videos regularly emerge during periods of unrest in Iran and do not necessarily indicate mass desertion.
The video, shared by Israeli analyst Or Ben Yehezkel on Telegram, shows a man identifying himself as an Iranian army soldier addressing US President Donald Trump. The soldier says the entire army and civilian population are waiting for Trump to liberate the country from the regime's oppression. The authenticity of the video and the identity of the soldier have not been independently verified. Yehezkel, who covers the Arab world, notes that such videos regularly surface during periods of unrest in Iran and cautions that they do not necessarily indicate a mass desertion movement. The Zioneer has previously reported on similar videos of Iranian soldiers expressing anticipation of US arrival (July 18) and claims of chaos in the IRGC (July 9). Those reports, based on single sources, were also unverified. The IRGC was established precisely to prevent a military coup, as Yehezkel notes, explaining the regime's fear of its own conventional army.
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