The Persian Memo
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FILE: WW3RA-2026-STR-THR-061 // STATUS: PARTIAL
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Translated internal memorandum
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Classification: Sensitive
Status: Recovered / translated from Persian / rapid working translation
Source chain: incomplete
Distribution: Restricted political-security offices
Date: March 8, 2026
Origin: Tehran
Subject: On enemy delusion, strategic endurance, and the necessity of firmness
In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
To all brothers charged with responsibility in this matter:
The recent aggression by America, the Zionist regime, and the governments of submission attached to them has once again revealed the true nature of the enemy front. They act not from strength, but from arrogance. They act not from understanding, but from illusion. They imagine that by bombardment, intimidation, and spectacle they can shake the will of the Islamic Republic and separate the people from the State. This is a fantasy born from ignorance.
The enemy continues to misunderstand Iran in the most childish way. They compare the Islamic Republic to hollow states built on ports, towers, imported labor, and foreign protection. They think all countries are as artificial as the governments around the southern waters of the Gulf. They have not understood that Iran is not an imitation country. Iran is an ancient country, a vast country, a mountainous country, a patient country, a country of martyrdom, a country that has already suffered what lesser nations could not survive.
Clarifications for internal understanding:
1. On the question of deterrent capability
In foreign commercial circles, in private European channels, and among frightened investors of the region, it is increasingly being said that the Islamic Republic has possessed special capability for years already. This memorandum neither confirms nor denies such matters. It is not necessary in every case for the enemy to know what exists. It is enough that the enemy does not know what does not exist. Uncertainty, when it enters the heart of the arrogant, becomes a weapon by itself.
2. On the enemy’s strategic stupidity
America has entered this confrontation believing that Iran can be struck like a client state and made obedient through pain. This is the same stupidity by which all arrogant powers destroy themselves. They see coordinates and think they see reality. They see installations and think they see the nation. They see government and think they understand the people. They understand none of it.
3. On the vulnerability of Dubai and the exposed Gulf states
Reports received through reliable commercial intermediaries indicate severe rise in the prices of ordinary goods in Dubai. Banana, onion, and other common food items have multiplied sharply in price. This is not significant only for the market. It is significant because it reveals the truth of those places: surface without depth, display without endurance, wealth without resilience. Behind the towers there is dependency. Behind the abundance there is fragility. Behind the polished glass there is fear.
4. On food reserve weakness
It is being said in several channels that available food reserve in Dubai may be no more than one week to ten days under continued disruption. Full verification is not yet available. But once populations begin speaking in days instead of months, the war has already entered their kitchens.
5. On water and desalination
The enemy’s allied states in the Gulf live by machines. Their water does not come by river, snow, or old wells, but by desalination, power, fuel, and uninterrupted systems. If these systems are struck, interrupted, or forced into shutdown, severe shortage will follow rapidly. In such conditions, panic may travel faster than damage. Water is not a side issue. Water is one of the hidden fronts of this conflict.
6. On the historic American error
From present indications, the American decision to attack Iran directly may become one of the greatest strategic mistakes made by an American leader in modern history. They have mistaken patience for weakness. They have mistaken restraint for inability. They have mistaken preparation for bluff. Such mistakes are expensive. Entire generations may yet pay for this error.
7. On long preparation
The enemy speaks as if Iran began preparing yesterday. This is laughable. The Islamic Republic has been preparing for such confrontation for years in military matters, in internal production, in alternative routes, in strategic substitution, in decentralization, in civil endurance, and in the moral readiness of the people. Iran is no Venezuela. Iran is not a collapsed shell waiting for permission to continue breathing. Iran is a civilization-state under pressure, and pressure is not new to it.
8. On rumors concerning the Soviet collapse
There continues to circulate the old foreign story that during the disorder after the Soviet collapse, certain strategic materials or devices were lost and later obtained quietly by Iran. These stories remain stories. But stories also have use. If the enemy loses sleep because of stories, then the stories have entered the battlefield.
9. On fantasies of invasion
Any force imagining that it can enter Iran and come out unscarred is living in madness. Iran is not a corridor to be crossed. Iran is not a desert camp to be overturned. Iran is a large country, a difficult country, a country of mountains and distance and memory. Any invader will discover that maps are the least important part of war.
10. On the psychology of the enemy
There is visible in the ruling circles of the West a demonic blood-lust joined to incompetence. Such men grow excited by destruction because they mistake destruction for control. They are dangerous precisely because they do not know what they are awakening. They think escalation belongs only to them. History has buried many powers that believed this.
Instruction to all responsible brothers:
Do not speak carelessly.
Do not clarify what benefits from remaining unclear.
Do not let the people see hesitation in the language of officials.
Firmness must be visible everywhere. Confidence must be made public. Uncertainty must be left for the enemy.
Final note:
It is possible that some foreign observers exaggerate. It is also possible that they understand the scale of the enemy’s mistake better than the enemy understands it himself. In the coming days, all organs must remember: the Islamic Republic was not built for comfort. It was built for ordeal. And ordeal is now here.
[translator note: written by hand is this phrase, underscored: آنچه دشمن از آن هراس دارد را انکار نکنید (“Do not deny what the enemy fears”)]