> Pepe Escobar reveals how Trump offered billions in bribes to senior Iranian commanders to provoke a fracture at the top in Tehran. This reveals how totally out of touch Trump is with the reality of Shia Islam and how desperate he is becoming with the approach of the U.S. midterms
And here pepe le pew outs himself. He’s telling you fake history. The previous guy – the shah or whatever he called himself – was ousted by a CIA plant. That plant, the one who was supposedly blown up by trump, was working for the tribe, just as trump is, just as the current son of the blown-up one is. All of this has happened countless times. Jewlensky in the jewkraine is another, just as the “terrorist” running syria is.
Islam is the tool the tribe are using to finally extinguish the fire of “christianity” that they themselves started 2000 years ago, to be replaced by a “one world government”.
chesterton
on August 21, 2026 at 12:44 pm
LOL..
I would have thought that this imbecile was hanging his head in shame somewhere, along with the rest of the fifth column blatherers..
but no..
apparently he’s off suicide watch and his meds, found an internet connection and back to his old trix…
the money’s on it’s way via bitcoin…
lolo
Amalek
on August 21, 2026 at 1:04 pm
unz.com
Exclusive: How Trump tried to bribe the head of the IRGC
Pepe Escobar • August 21, 2026 • 800 Words • Leave a CommentQ&A
5–6 minutes
Mafia, piracy, bribing, extortion: talk about a flexible Empire at work
Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy. And bribes.
Mike Pompeo, former aspiring Tony Soprano, admitted: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” And we bribe.
A Transition Protocol source, as we revealed live, is unequivocal: The President of the United States – despite having “won” the war on Iran countless times, at least in the Vociferation stakes – made a major attempt to induce IRGC Commander-in-Chief Gen. Ahmad Vahidi and senior Iranian military leadership to break with the government in Tehran through enormous financial inducements.
So here we have POTUS playing good ol’ Divide and Rule – which the Brits learned from the Roman Empire – to fracture the IRGC from the inside.
This was not a mere exploratory diplomatic contact. Trump did not merely want to determine whether Vahidi supported U.S.-Iran negotiations.
According to our source – placed in the tight inner circle of Leader Mojtaba Khamenei – this was a full leadership-buyout operation, modeled on the Venezuela playbook, to fracture the Iranian state.
The attempt miserably failed.
Because Ahmad Vahidi completely rejected it.
The Trump administration had already created a somewhat direct conduit to Vahidi through Nechirvan Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, way back in May 2026. Then-DNI Tulsi Gabbard contacted Barzani – fully authorized by Trump and Vice-President JD Vance – and an encrypted connection to Vahidi was subsequently established through Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The channel stayed dormant – or in coma, for nearly 3 months. This time though Trump attempted to turn the channel into a de facto fracturing of the Iranian leadership, employing the conceptual precedent in Venezuela: isolate the central command; handsomely bribe those immediately around it for “cooperation”; and create the internal conditions for regime decapitation.
The source describes “billions of dollars” being waved as inducements to several members of the senior IRGC leadership through Vahidi. All that while Trump was on Hardcore Vociferation mode threatening Tehran and spinning his “control” of the Strait of Hormuz.
Nothing so far has been independently confirmed in public. And probably will not. But that does not mean the source is not credible.
The source is part of Leader Mojtaba’s tight inner circle; heard all about it directly from Vahidi; and later was fully authorized to disclose the extremely sensitive information to Pakistani mediators, especially Field Marshal Asim Munir, who Trump keeps calling virtually every day asking for “help” getting the Iranians back at the negotiating table (when he in fact blew up the negotiating table).
I bribe, therefore I am
Vahidi is not a peripheral military figure. Far from it: he is the commander of the IRGC – the institutional center of gravity of Iranian hard power. The Trump administration wanted access to the top of the IRGC itself.
But they bet on the wrong man. The number two man in Iran right now, overseeing everything including top IRGC decisions, is Mohsen Rezaee: the new secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and personal representative of Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
Mohsen Rezaee is a former IRGC commander and his leadership is uncontested – as proven by the trust placed in him by the Leader. The overarching framework guiding his decisions – and people like Vahidi – is the Shi’te sense of moral duty, ethics, self-sacrifice and the spirit of Sovereign Resistance, values completely alien to an Empire of Grifters.
It’s no wonder that a crass neo-Crassus in War-a-Lago/Washington actually believed that a battle-tested military leader – and those around him – could sell the fate of a civilization-state for a mere bribe, and induced to defect, stand aside or facilitate regime change.
Applying the exact same Venezuela methodology means that the Trump administration actually believed they could translate it to a Shi’ite Iran context. That proves once again an astonishing degree of cultural stupidity.
The methodology may work for corrupt Latin American political/military elites: History tells us it happened so many times.
But to believe that offering protection, political survival, loads of money and/or a future share of the spoils to an IRGC that is far from being a loose political entourage around a vulnerable presidential palace fully demonstrates how the Empire of Grifters has no clue about the institutional cohesion of the Iranian security state.
All across the Global South, this will be regarded for what it is: another episode of the neo-Crassus Art of the Deal.
Complementing another recent episode, where the capo fraternizes with the DPRK then asks South Korea – “I asked for $10 billion” – for protection money.
That’s the pizzo. Not to be confused with pizza. Pizzo is Sicilian slang for extortion money.
Mafia, piracy, bribing, extortion: talk about a flexible Empire at work.
__________________________________________________
Is it true? Might be…
Iranians don’t take bribes from the ‘Great Satan’ anymore!
Hopefully there will be no more Shah’s for the US.
It seems to have been forgotten that this was done successfully during the Iraq war. Iraqi generals took huge bribes and fled the country at the crucial moment.
Yukon Jack
on August 22, 2026 at 3:20 pm
Worth a look, Putin is allowing Russia to be destroyed just as Trump is doing the same:
As a Shia Iranian, I would tell some of the non-believing Iranians that we would absolutely win the war! Of course they thought I was an idiot. Even though I argued with them in terms of military capabilities, deterrence doctrine and weaknesses of our enemies, still their idol-worship of US-power fogged their minds and hearts. The beginning of the show was so intense and one sided that those Iranians started to ridicule us, almost all leadership and command gone in the matter of hours! Many lost hope, but once the great dazzling display was over, we were just there standing as if nothing had happened! We lost our leader but new leaders and commanders were appointed, we were immune to decapitation! Shia led by the headless master of martyrs and a hidden imam that can’t be assassinated and yet continuous to lead can’t fail. As a basic Muslim you get aquatinted with the concept of “Divine Promise of Victory” which is actually one of the hardest parts of the “Belief in the Unseen” system, specially so because God wants to separate the fake and weak from the pure and strong, for the purpose of revealing the hypocrites. Just compare Venezuela with Iran and you’ll see that we are on another level due to our beliefs; they had chopped off the head of the Iranian nation and the nation instead of falling, picked up the head and put it right back in place! That impossible sight alone defeated our enemies in their minds! Now I see those naysayer Iranians and they are all humbled. Still there has to be some kind of ground war too, no war is complete without one! That might come after some developments, in particular with Turkey! After all they still claim to be the only standing Patron of Sunni Islam!
> Pepe Escobar reveals how Trump offered billions in bribes to senior Iranian commanders to provoke a fracture at the top in Tehran. This reveals how totally out of touch Trump is with the reality of Shia Islam and how desperate he is becoming with the approach of the U.S. midterms
And here pepe le pew outs himself. He’s telling you fake history. The previous guy – the shah or whatever he called himself – was ousted by a CIA plant. That plant, the one who was supposedly blown up by trump, was working for the tribe, just as trump is, just as the current son of the blown-up one is. All of this has happened countless times. Jewlensky in the jewkraine is another, just as the “terrorist” running syria is.
Islam is the tool the tribe are using to finally extinguish the fire of “christianity” that they themselves started 2000 years ago, to be replaced by a “one world government”.
LOL..
I would have thought that this imbecile was hanging his head in shame somewhere, along with the rest of the fifth column blatherers..
but no..
apparently he’s off suicide watch and his meds, found an internet connection and back to his old trix…
the money’s on it’s way via bitcoin…
lolo
unz.com
Exclusive: How Trump tried to bribe the head of the IRGC
Pepe Escobar • August 21, 2026 • 800 Words • Leave a CommentQ&A
5–6 minutes
Mafia, piracy, bribing, extortion: talk about a flexible Empire at work
Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy. And bribes.
Mike Pompeo, former aspiring Tony Soprano, admitted: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” And we bribe.
A Transition Protocol source, as we revealed live, is unequivocal: The President of the United States – despite having “won” the war on Iran countless times, at least in the Vociferation stakes – made a major attempt to induce IRGC Commander-in-Chief Gen. Ahmad Vahidi and senior Iranian military leadership to break with the government in Tehran through enormous financial inducements.
So here we have POTUS playing good ol’ Divide and Rule – which the Brits learned from the Roman Empire – to fracture the IRGC from the inside.
This was not a mere exploratory diplomatic contact. Trump did not merely want to determine whether Vahidi supported U.S.-Iran negotiations.
According to our source – placed in the tight inner circle of Leader Mojtaba Khamenei – this was a full leadership-buyout operation, modeled on the Venezuela playbook, to fracture the Iranian state.
The attempt miserably failed.
Because Ahmad Vahidi completely rejected it.
The Trump administration had already created a somewhat direct conduit to Vahidi through Nechirvan Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, way back in May 2026. Then-DNI Tulsi Gabbard contacted Barzani – fully authorized by Trump and Vice-President JD Vance – and an encrypted connection to Vahidi was subsequently established through Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The channel stayed dormant – or in coma, for nearly 3 months. This time though Trump attempted to turn the channel into a de facto fracturing of the Iranian leadership, employing the conceptual precedent in Venezuela: isolate the central command; handsomely bribe those immediately around it for “cooperation”; and create the internal conditions for regime decapitation.
The source describes “billions of dollars” being waved as inducements to several members of the senior IRGC leadership through Vahidi. All that while Trump was on Hardcore Vociferation mode threatening Tehran and spinning his “control” of the Strait of Hormuz.
Nothing so far has been independently confirmed in public. And probably will not. But that does not mean the source is not credible.
The source is part of Leader Mojtaba’s tight inner circle; heard all about it directly from Vahidi; and later was fully authorized to disclose the extremely sensitive information to Pakistani mediators, especially Field Marshal Asim Munir, who Trump keeps calling virtually every day asking for “help” getting the Iranians back at the negotiating table (when he in fact blew up the negotiating table).
I bribe, therefore I am
Vahidi is not a peripheral military figure. Far from it: he is the commander of the IRGC – the institutional center of gravity of Iranian hard power. The Trump administration wanted access to the top of the IRGC itself.
But they bet on the wrong man. The number two man in Iran right now, overseeing everything including top IRGC decisions, is Mohsen Rezaee: the new secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and personal representative of Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
Mohsen Rezaee is a former IRGC commander and his leadership is uncontested – as proven by the trust placed in him by the Leader. The overarching framework guiding his decisions – and people like Vahidi – is the Shi’te sense of moral duty, ethics, self-sacrifice and the spirit of Sovereign Resistance, values completely alien to an Empire of Grifters.
It’s no wonder that a crass neo-Crassus in War-a-Lago/Washington actually believed that a battle-tested military leader – and those around him – could sell the fate of a civilization-state for a mere bribe, and induced to defect, stand aside or facilitate regime change.
Applying the exact same Venezuela methodology means that the Trump administration actually believed they could translate it to a Shi’ite Iran context. That proves once again an astonishing degree of cultural stupidity.
The methodology may work for corrupt Latin American political/military elites: History tells us it happened so many times.
But to believe that offering protection, political survival, loads of money and/or a future share of the spoils to an IRGC that is far from being a loose political entourage around a vulnerable presidential palace fully demonstrates how the Empire of Grifters has no clue about the institutional cohesion of the Iranian security state.
All across the Global South, this will be regarded for what it is: another episode of the neo-Crassus Art of the Deal.
Complementing another recent episode, where the capo fraternizes with the DPRK then asks South Korea – “I asked for $10 billion” – for protection money.
That’s the pizzo. Not to be confused with pizza. Pizzo is Sicilian slang for extortion money.
Mafia, piracy, bribing, extortion: talk about a flexible Empire at work.
__________________________________________________
Is it true? Might be…
Iranians don’t take bribes from the ‘Great Satan’ anymore!
Hopefully there will be no more Shah’s for the US.
Nima and Pepe, thank you for what you do. Pls look at these:
“The Noahide Mandate: Donald Trump, the ‘First Jewish President,’ and the Coming Global Decree”
https://unshackledtruthministry.substack.com/p/the-noahide-mandate-donald-trump
“When the Church’s Political Savior Removes the Mask”
https://unshackledtruthministry.substack.com/p/the-november-2026-trapdoor?utm_source=chatgpt.com
“SPECIAL REPORT: The Final Phase of the “4th Fourth Turning” is Here”
https://stateofthenation.info/?p=76511
It seems to have been forgotten that this was done successfully during the Iraq war. Iraqi generals took huge bribes and fled the country at the crucial moment.
Worth a look, Putin is allowing Russia to be destroyed just as Trump is doing the same:
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/exclusive-how-trump-tried-to-bribe-the-head-of-the-irgc/#comment-7743085
As a Shia Iranian, I would tell some of the non-believing Iranians that we would absolutely win the war! Of course they thought I was an idiot. Even though I argued with them in terms of military capabilities, deterrence doctrine and weaknesses of our enemies, still their idol-worship of US-power fogged their minds and hearts. The beginning of the show was so intense and one sided that those Iranians started to ridicule us, almost all leadership and command gone in the matter of hours! Many lost hope, but once the great dazzling display was over, we were just there standing as if nothing had happened! We lost our leader but new leaders and commanders were appointed, we were immune to decapitation! Shia led by the headless master of martyrs and a hidden imam that can’t be assassinated and yet continuous to lead can’t fail. As a basic Muslim you get aquatinted with the concept of “Divine Promise of Victory” which is actually one of the hardest parts of the “Belief in the Unseen” system, specially so because God wants to separate the fake and weak from the pure and strong, for the purpose of revealing the hypocrites. Just compare Venezuela with Iran and you’ll see that we are on another level due to our beliefs; they had chopped off the head of the Iranian nation and the nation instead of falling, picked up the head and put it right back in place! That impossible sight alone defeated our enemies in their minds! Now I see those naysayer Iranians and they are all humbled. Still there has to be some kind of ground war too, no war is complete without one! That might come after some developments, in particular with Turkey! After all they still claim to be the only standing Patron of Sunni Islam!
ایها صهیون نحن المقاومون و نحن المنتقمون