An Iranian pro-democracy activist provided Israel National News with impressions from a visit to Tehran just before the 
The significance of dissatisfaction within the IRGC, if accurate, cannot be overestimated.
widespread student protests there earlier this week. The report, by an Iranian who currently lives in the West, begins with a clear declaration: "Let me make one thing completely [clear], most everyone hates, with a capital H, this murderous regime."
The Iranian expatriate, who goes by the pen-name Mehdi2009, claims to have spoken with "ordinary people" throughout all sectors of the Iranian capital over a two-day period. "Make no mistake about it, at least nine of out ten people that I was able to talk with hate Khomeini, Khamenei and, above all, Ahmadinejad," he said.
"Even people whom I could trust that are on government payroll or are current members of either Basij [the regime's private militia - ed.] or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps dislike or hate this tyrannical regime," the activist continued.
The significance of dissatisfaction within the IRGC, if accurate, cannot be overestimated. Along with the Basij forces, the IRGC is believed to be in charge of Iran's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs, as well as controlling nearly a third of the nation's economy.
Mehdi2009 suggests that "the regime has lost every ounce of legitimacy that it had, among even its own supporters, and the regime knows it very well." It is not just political oppression and corruption driving the dissatisfaction, according to the activist: "The economy is even in worse shape than three months ago; young and old are stressed out and fear for the future. ...The regime is eating its own people...." Internal battles among factions of the Islamic Republic's elite are also raging apparently, and as Mehdi2009 noted, the "Khamenei/Ahmadinejad Gang is arresting and humiliating the members of Rafsanjani Gang on a daily basis."
The current situation in Iran is "beyond explosive, and even the mullahs and the higher-ups in the IRGC command structure know that they are sitting on top of a raging volcano," the activist said.
"As I told to both the young men and women in Iran, the current situation for this regime is not sustainable, and hence the Day of Reckoning is fast approaching. Simply said: People are mad as hell, and are not going to take it any more."