Iran: Mullahs' Parliament Anti-Infiltration Plan; Admission of Security Failure and the Deadlock of Overthrow
By Reza Hoseani
Introduction: From the Slogan of Infiltration to the Law of Infiltration
The general principles of the bill “Confronting the Infiltration of Foreign Intelligence Services and Governments” were approved with 183 votes on August 15, 2026 in the mullahs’ parliament.
Hassan Ghashghavi, spokesman for the National Security Commission, said: “We have laws on espionage, but in the field of infiltration, given its importance and the Leader’s emphasis, there was a legal vacuum.”
Yet the same parliament admits this bill was being drafted long before the 12-day war. Why is a regime that called itself the most powerful intelligence system in the region now rushing to legislate to plug its security holes?
The answer is not in the text of the law, but in the blows inflicted on the regime in the past year.
1. Why Now? A Security Failure That Cannot Be Explained by Mobiles and Laptops
The official narrative is that infiltration means leaked mobiles and computers. But reality says otherwise:
In the recent war with the US and Israel, top officials – from IRGC commanders to missile project managers – were targeted and eliminated in their own safe houses. This level of intelligence dominance cannot be achieved by just hacking a mobile phone.
Inside, the regime faced an assault that its own media described as an attack on Khamenei’s compound by 250 members of the People’s Mojahedin (MEK), just before a foreign war. Or the elimination of the regime’s murderous judges in the heart of the most protected location, the Judiciary tower.
This shows the problem is not “information leakage” but “human defection.”
2. The Real Root of Infiltration: Infighting at the Top and the IRGC’s Looting Economy
This parliament wants to solve a human and political phenomenon with a legal article. That is why even from within, voices of protest rose.
Mohsen Zanganeh, MP from Torbat Heydarieh, said: “This plan actually opens the hands of those who are subject to infiltration even more” and added “all economic and cultural spheres have been violated.”
Why? Real infiltration comes from two sources:
A) The War of the Wolves at the Top: When contradiction at the top reaches boiling point, each faction leaks the most confidential information to eliminate the rival. This is no longer classic espionage, it is factional score-settling.
B) The Structural Corruption of the IRGC: When IRGC commanders and corrupt officials enter the cycle of profit and seize huge companies, they no longer have motivation to preserve the system. To protect their plundered capital, they themselves become agents of infiltration. This gap cannot be filled with a permit system.
Even Ghalibaf, the speaker, was forced to confess: “The parliament should not review plans that make people worried and angry” and Pezeshkian’s government officially opposed it as contrary to the constitution.
Even inside the regime they understand this plan is more repressive than security-related.
3. When the Main War is With the People, the Infiltration Law is Useless
This bill tries to criminalize any “providing policy, legislative or executive proposals to governing bodies” under foreign guidance, with up to 30 years in prison, and even requires a Ministry of Intelligence permit to provide reports to foreign nationals.
But the regime’s main contradiction is no longer with foreign governments. The main war is with the organized resistance, the rebellious youth and popular protests.
When the problem is masses of youth chanting for overthrow in the streets, you cannot frame it as “foreign infiltration” and block it with a law. The elimination of the murderous judges inside the Judiciary by the MEK’s Resistance Units showed that physical protection no longer works.
4. Burnt Pawns; The Last Arrow in the Quiver
In such a deadlock, the regime turns to burnt pawns. A clear example is using Mohsen Rezaei as Mojtaba Khamenei’s representative in the National Security Council.
A pawn who, by admission of insiders, expired during Ali Khamenei’s era and has for years been passed from council to council as a balancing element and political clown. Can such a discredited figure solve the strategic crisis of infiltration? Never. It only shows how empty-handed the regime is.
Conclusion: Flailing in the Quagmire
This bill is not a solution, but a statement of deadlock. A regime sinking on several fronts:
- Political and social illegitimacy: A people who no longer want this regime.
- Fissure and war of the wolves at the top of power.
- Economic bankruptcy and lack of growth infrastructure.
- Maximum external pressure and failure of deterrence.
In such conditions, passing a law to counter infiltration is nothing but flailing to avoid drowning. Every flail sinks it deeper.
This regime’s life is over and no law can fill the human and social gap between the state and the people with a circular.
Epilogue: A Groundbreaking Flood is Lurking
The reality is that the radicalized nationwide uprising of the brave people of Iran is lurking for this moribund regime, waiting for a spark to ignite this huge gunpowder and extraordinary social potential like a destructive flood and realize the inevitable overthrow.
This day is not far. It may be a little late or early, but it will happen.
Yes, the overthrow of this evil and criminal regime is in the real perspective and victory belongs to the oppressed people of Iran.
After 120 years of uninterrupted struggle against two royal and religious dictatorships, the Iranian people will achieve their long-standing aspirations and a national, democratic, pluralistic, independent, non-nuclear and peace-seeking government will replace an anti-people rule. Freedom of belief and economic prosperity for the Iranian nation and peace and security in the region will be guaranteed
About the Author
Reza Hoseani has been writing on political and social developments in Iran and the Middle East for over two decades. His main focus is on strategies to contain the Iranian regime’s warmongering and to support the Iranian people’s democratic movements.
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