It is evident that the survival strategy of the Iranian regime faced its most significant blows in the past year. The following developments highlight this claim:
January 3, 2024: A bombing in Kerman killed at least 103 people during a ceremony commemorating the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.
January 15, 2024: The IRGC launched ballistic missiles and drones targeting Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, killing four and injuring five. A missile was also fired at a target in Aleppo province, Syria.
January 20, 2024: An Israeli airstrike on a building in Damascus, Syria, killed five IRGC members, including Commander Sadegh Omidzadeh.
February 8, 2024: Meta removed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Instagram accounts for violating its policy on “dangerous organizations and individuals.”
March 8, 2024: A UN fact-finding mission declared that human rights violations by the Iranian government had reached the level of crimes against humanity.
April 1, 2024: An Israeli airstrike on the Iranian regime’s consulate in Damascus killed eight IRGC members, including Commander Mohammadreza Zahedi.
April 13, 2024: Iran fired between 400 to 500 drones and cruise missiles at Israel from Iran, Iraq, Syria, southern Lebanon, and Yemen. Over 90% of the missiles failed to reach Israeli territory, resulting in the death of only one Palestinian worker.
April 20, 2024: Suspected Israeli missile strikes targeted sites near Isfahan in Iran, Iraq, and radar facilities in Syria.
May 18, 2024: A helicopter crash killed regime President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, East Azerbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati, and Ali Khamenei’s representative in the province, Mohammad-Ali Al-Hashem.
June 14, 2024: Hamid Nouri, an Iranian official sentenced to life imprisonment in Sweden, was released in a prisoner exchange mediated by Oman.
June 19, 2024: Canada added the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its list of terrorist organizations.
July 4, 2024: Massoud Pezeshkian defeated Saeed Jalili in the second round of presidential elections to become the ninth president of the Iranian regime.
August 1, 2024: Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, was assassinated in Tehran.
August 28, 2024: The Hamburg government in Germany expelled Mohammad Hadi Mofateh, the head of the Islamic Center of Hamburg, setting a deadline for his departure by September 10.
September 21, 2024: An explosion at the Tabas coal mine killed at least 51 workers and injured 28 others.
September 27, 2024: An Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and IRGC Commander Abbas Nilforoushan.
October 2024: The Iranian regime launched a series of missile attacks against Israel under the operation name “True Promise 2.”
October 28, 2024: Jamshid Sharmahd, a political dissident with German citizenship, was executed. This action led to Germany recalling its ambassador and closing Iranian consulates in Germany.
December 8, 2024: The cities of Homs and Damascus in Syria fell to opposition forces, prompting Iranian regime ally Bashar al-Assad to flee the country.
December 18, 2024: Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, was arrested in Tehran on unspecified charges.
December 18, 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country assisted in the evacuation of 4,000 Iranian forces from Syria.
