Khamenei's men did not die for Iran. They died for his survival.
These generals weren’t defending the nation. They were enforcing a regime — the same regime that jailed poets, hanged protesters, and stole futures.
Their loyalty was not to the people of Iran but to the power structure that elevated them above it.
Many were paid hands — rewarded for keeping the public in fear, the system in motion, and the truth suppressed. Their deaths were not sacrifices. They were consequences.
A real martyr dies for love of truth, people, or God. Not for a government’s control.
Their fall should not be mourned as martyrdom — but understood as collapse of a failing empire.
While their funerals are televised, ordinary Iranians die unreported, unburied, forgotten. The real martyrs lie in prison cells, under rubble, in unmarked graves.