Iran’s Regime Crosses a New Threshold: Deploying Proxy Forces Against Domestic Uprisings

The January 2026 nationwide uprising exposed erosion within the security apparatus and prompted a risky escalation by the ruling system. The nationwide uprising of January 2026, marked by its unprecedented geographic spread and explicitly anti-system slogans, placed the regime’s in a clear survival scenario. The scale and persistence of the protests strained the regime’s conventional repression […] The post Iran’s Regime Crosses a New Threshold: Deploying Proxy Forces Against Domestic Uprisings appeared first on Iran News Update.