Tehran Regime IMPLODES: Iran Faces “Zero Day” as Iran Military Turns on IRGC A civil war has broken out within the Iranian military.

Iranian soldiers on the front lines are being given only 20 rounds of ammunition for every two soldiers.

There is no water.

There is no food.

The revolutionary guards are refusing to transport wounded soldiers to the hospital, leaving their own comrades to drown in their own blood.

Reserve forces were called up.

No one came.

Those who did come took their families and fled to the border.

According to informed sources, the Iranian armed forces are facing severe shortages of supplies, rising desertions, and deepening friction between the regular army, Artesh, and the revolutionary guards.

More than two weeks have passed since Kam’s death, and that invincible Iranian army is now in need of a sip of water and 20 rounds of ammunition.

It is devouring itself.

The regular army and the revolutionary guards have turned against each other.

Soldiers are deserting.

Commanders have fled.

The Iranian military is imploding from within.

This collapse did not happen overnight.

It unfolded over a two-week period in three interrelated waves.

the fragmentation of the command structure on February 28th, Israel’s strikes against the besiege in the streets of Tehran, and now the army’s complete disintegration.

Let’s examine the anatomy of these three waves.

According to an Iran International report on March 6th, numerous officers abandoned their barracks, leaving their troops under bombardment.

Underground bunkers had been destroyed by GBU57s, and they were trying to take shelter in civilian buildings.

This first wave crippled the command structure, but the bulk of the army was still standing.

It was scattered and unable to receive orders, but physically deployed.

The real devastation came when Israel changed its targeting strategy.

On March 9th, Israel fundamentally changed its targeting strategy.

It was no longer just missile bases and underground bunkers.

The regime’s mechanisms for controlling the population were now being targeted.

The strike on Elam province was devastating.

The internal security headquarters, the ministry of intelligence, the IRGC command center, the special forces headquarters and numerous besiege bases all were wiped out in a single operation.

Abdan, Dares, Ivangarab reduced to rubble.

On March 11th, the IDF simultaneously struck command centers in Tehran and Tre.

The general staff headquarters was bombed.

It was completely destroyed.

But the truly shocking development unfolded on the streets of Tehran.

The Israeli Air Force targeted besiege barricades and militants deployed by the regime to tighten its grip on the city across Tehran.

But the ammunition shortage is just the beginning.

It is reported that field units in some regions are operating without access to reliable drinking water or sufficient food supplies.

No weapons, no water, no food.

On the 12th day of the war, the soldiers of a million strong army are being decimated by hunger, thirst, and a lack of ammunition.

Under these conditions, it is physically impossible for an army to maintain its loyalty.

The bloody rift between the Artesh and the revolutionary guards had opened.

The biggest point of friction emerged regarding medical support for wounded soldiers.

Regular army units suffered significant losses.

Yet, Revolutionary Guard personnel flatly refused to transport wounded Army soldiers to hospitals despite having access to medical facilities.

Citing shortages of ambulances and blood supplies, they repeatedly turn down the army’s requests for assistance.

On this detail, an army abandoning its own wounded to die is proof that military cohesion has collapsed at the most fundamental level.

Artesh and the IRGC, Iran’s two armed forces, are no longer fighting as a unified whole.

They view each other as enemies.

This division is structural and historical.

Artesh is Iran’s conventional army, units inherited from the Sha era, filled through mandatory conscription with relatively weak ideological ties.

After the 1979 revolution, the regime never trusted Artesh.

It established its own ideological army, the IRGC.

The IRGC, meanwhile, is the regime’s ideological guardian, a privileged, welle equipped parallel army managing economic empires worth billions of dollars.

Construction companies, banks, ports, airports, all are under the IRGC’s control.

For 47 years, the IRGC has always been treated as first class citizens, while the Artesh has been treated as secondass.

The best weapons go to the IRGC.

The best salaries go to the IRGC.

The best hospitals go to the IRGC.

Now, even as the regime collapses, the IRGC prioritizes the technical maintenance of its missile systems, that is preserving its strategic weapons capabilities.

while starving its own soldiers, while abandoning its wounded to die.

This is a command mentality that places the machine above human life.

And this mentality has brought the anger that has been building since February 28th to a breaking point.

Artesh soldiers know the IRGC didn’t send ambulances while they were drowning in their own blood, and they want revenge.

And then the uprisings erupted.

Harsh conditions and a situation perceived as neglect by commanders led to mass desertions.

Soldiers abandoned their bases and sought refuge in nearby towns.

They are fleeing in groups.

No longer individual desertions, but a mass wave of desertion.

The revolutionary guards attempted to mobilize reserve forces.

Result, a complete fiasco.

Most of those called up did not report to military centers.

Instead, some took this as an opportunity to take their families and flee toward border regions.

In other words, the mobilization order rather than strengthening the military actually accelerated civilian migration.

The regime said, “Come and fight.” But people replied, “We’re leaving.” Heading toward the border.

The failure of the reserve mobilization shows that the regime’s manpower crisis has reached a point of no return.

Active duty troops are deserting.

Reserveists aren’t showing up, and those who do are rushing toward the border.

The regime cannot even find people to fill its own war machine.

This is a sign of the collapse not of an army, but of a state.

And perhaps the most shocking detail, the crisis is not limited to the artes.

Even within the IRGC missile units, traditionally the best resourced units of the Iranian military, reports of communication equipment failures and shortages of food and basic supplies, are emerging.

Even the missile units, the regime’s crown jewels, its most privileged and best equipped forces, are starving and cut off from communication.

Commanders are prioritizing the delivery of technical components necessary to keep missile systems operational over sending food or personal equipment to the troops.

They are protecting the machine, not the people.

It is acceptable for a soldier to go hungry, but a missile cannot be left unmaintained.

This mindset alone explains why the Iranian military is falling apart.

The regime does not view its own soldiers as human beings.

And the soldiers know this.

They know the IRGC doesn’t send ambulances while they’re drowning in their own blood.

They know that while technical parts for missile maintenance arrive, no bread comes for them.

And this knowledge is accelerating desertions and defections even further.

There is also a political dimension to this breakdown.

The number of deserters reaching Crown Prince Raza Palavi in exile has reached 50,000.

This figure is the result of a process that has been building since 2024 to 2025.

But the wave following February 28th, 2026 has turned it into a tsunami.

And the message echoing from the streets of Iran sums up the crisis’s final phase.

Trump kept his word.

Soon it will be our turn to take to the streets and deliver the final blow.

This is not merely an expression of hope.

It is a call to action.

And this call is finding an echo within the military as well.

Farewell videos from besiege members.

Everyone has left.

The regime has ended.

IRGC officers oaths of loyalty to the Palavi.

Soldiers confessions that I will stand with the people.

These are all different facets of the same process.

This chain now seems unbreakable because each link feeds the next.

As desertions increase, logistics collapse further.

As logistics collapse, more soldiers desert.

As the Artesh IRGC hostility deepens, coordination breaks down.

As coordination breaks down, more targets remain exposed to Israeli drones.

A vicious cycle.

Loitering munitions, that is, unmanned aerial vehicles that hover in the air, wait for the target to appear, and then attack, were spotted in the skies over Tehran.

Result, more than 10 besieged checkpoints in various parts of Tehran and numerous moving Revolutionary Guard military vehicles were targeted by these drones and completely destroyed.

We need to focus on this detail because this was a turning point that completely changed the nature of the war.

From February 28th to March 8th, Israel and the US were striking Iran’s military infrastructure.

missile bases, underground bunkers, airports, refineries.

These were conventional military targets.

But on March 9th to 11th, the targets shifted.

Now the regime’s mechanisms for controlling the population, besiege checkpoints, internal security headquarters, patrol vehicles on the streets were being directly targeted.

And this was happening in the heart of Tehran on the streets of the capital.

And this opened the way for civilians.

On March 12th, in the Cavaran neighborhood south of Tehran, civilians seized a regime besieged checkpoint.

The regime had no mechanisms left to suppress the people.

And at this very point, Iranian international media laid bare the extent of the Iranian military’s collapse.

What we are witnessing in Iran today is not merely military chaos.

It is doctrinal decay.

And to grasp the scale of this decay, we must examine its various layers separately.

First, the home front has collapsed.

A structure that cannot hold its own home front together is incapable of getting its wounded soldiers into ambulances and has lost control points in its capital of 10 million people cannot possibly establish hegemony abroad.

Regime’s much touted missile doctrine has become nothing more than a pile of expensive metal in the hands of a command structure that leaves its soldiers starving.

In fact, 86% of those missiles can no longer be fired.

They’re buried underground.

Second, the rift between the Artesh and the IRGC is irreversible.

It is no longer possible to fight under the same roof with an IRGC that abandons its wounded to die and refuses to send ambulances.

This hostility will not be limited to the front lines.

Even if the war ends, the reckoning between these two forces will continue.

Iran’s military structure is permanently divided.

Third, proxy networks are dying.

How can a structure that cannot provide ammunition to its troops in Tehran or transport its wounded to ambulances on the front lines sustain the Houthis in Yemen or Hezbollah in Lebanon?

Iran’s internal collapse is the logistical death sentence for all proxy networks in the Middle East.

Let’s break it down.

Iran was sending Hezbollah an estimated $700 million in cash and thousands of tons of ammunition annually.

It was supplying the Houthis with drone technology and ballistic missile components.

It was providing operational support to Shiite militias in Iraq.

The logistical backbone of all these transfers, cargo planes, road convoys, seaw routes, has been systematically destroyed since February 28th.

The Kuds force planes at Meabad are charred wrecks.

Roadways are under bombardment.

Sea routes are closed.

18 warships destroyed.

While Iran cannot even provide its own soldiers with 20 rounds of ammunition, it is physically impossible for it to send ballistic missile parts to the Houthis.

When the main artery is severed, all the limbs wither simultaneously.

Fourth, the psychological collapse is permanent.

That besiege members farewell video, the burning of uniforms, the abandonment of checkpoints, these are irreversible.

Once an executioner declares everyone’s gone, the regime has ended.

He cannot put on his uniform and return to duty the next day.

The veil of fear has been torn.

If your army isn’t protecting you, your people are against you.

Enemy drones are hunting in the streets of your capital, and your own military forces are abandoning each other to death.

That war has already been lost.

The process that began on February 28th completely dismantled Iran’s military structure in three waves over 12 days.

The first wave killed the brain.

The command structure was shattered.

Over 50 generals were eliminated.

Carmon was killed and the survivors fled.

The second wave severed the nervous system.

The internal security infrastructure in Ilam was wiped out.

Besiege checkpoints in Thran’s streets were struck by Israeli drones.

and the regime’s mechanism for controlling the people was destroyed.

The third wave brought the body to its knees.

20 bullets for every two soldiers, no water, no food, open hostility between the Artesh and the IRGC, the wounded left to die, mass desertions, and a failed mobilization of reserves.

This collapse pattern has been seen before in history.

In 1989 in Romania, Chowoescu’s security, the regime’s internal security apparatus, dissolved within days amid a popular uprising.

In 2003 in Iraq, Saddam’s Fedí, the regime’s street thugs, stripped off their uniforms and vanished upon seeing US tanks.

In 2011, in Libya, Gaddafi’s revolutionary committees, the regime’s neighborhood level enforcers, vanished under NATO bombardment.

But the collapse in Iran takes on a different dimension from all of these because here three things are happening simultaneously.

When these three forces push in the same direction at the same time, no regime can survive.

Iran isn’t collapsing.

Iran is exploding from within.

And the most symbolic image of that explosion is the fear on the face of that besiege member staring at the camera in an empty headquarters.

For 47 years, that fear was on the faces of the Iranian people.

Now, it has shifted.

The executioners have become the hunted, and there is no turning back.

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