🩸 📡 🌱 🧠 🇮🇷 #2026082508 — You Could See the Year in Its Spring: From the COVID Antenna to the Ten Illusions of the Islamic Republic
There is an old Persian expression born from agriculture:
سالی که نکوست، از بهارش پیداست.
“A good year can be recognized by its spring.”
For the farmer, spring was not simply another season. It was the beginning.
The Iranian year begins with spring. The soil wakes. Seeds begin their work. Trees flower. Water, temperature, wind and growth begin revealing what kind of harvest may be coming.
You do not have to wait until winter to notice that something has gone terribly wrong.
Sometimes the spring tells you.
And in April 2020, during the opening months of one of the greatest public-health emergencies of the modern age, the Islamic Republic gave the world a spring worth remembering.
It came with an antenna.
And something that, to an ordinary observer, looked remarkably like a pot lid or a small satellite dish.
📡 April 15, 2020: The Machine That Could Find Coronavirus From 100 Meters Away
On April 15, 2020, IRGC commander Hossein Salami appeared at an official unveiling ceremony in Tehran.
The device was called Mostaan 110 — مستعان ۱۱۰.
This was not a comedy program.
It was not satire.
It was not an internet meme manufactured afterward.
The commander of one of the most powerful military organizations in the Middle East stood before cameras and presented the apparatus as an Iranian scientific achievement.
According to contemporary reports, Salami said the device could identify coronavirus contamination from approximately 100 meters away, without taking blood, and could locate an infected person or contaminated location in approximately five seconds. The proposed explanation involved a magnetic field and the supposed polarization of the virus.
An approximately 80 percent success rate was also claimed.
Look again at what was being claimed.
Not five hours.
Not five minutes.
Five seconds.
Not by collecting a biological sample.
From a distance.
Not across a laboratory bench.
From as far as 100 meters away.
At precisely the moment when laboratories around the world were struggling with PCR capacity, testing shortages, reagents, sampling, viral loads and the difficult mathematics of controlling a new pandemic, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps appeared to have found something astonishingly simpler:
point the antenna.
🦠 Then Iran’s Scientists Asked an Awkward Question
Science has an inconvenient habit.
It asks:
How do you know?
Iran’s own Health Ministry did not simply embrace the announcement.
Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said the device had not been approved by the ministry. Contemporary reporting also recorded presidential adviser Hesameddin Ashena warning broadcasters against promoting diagnostic devices, vaccines or treatments lacking Health Ministry approval.
Then came the physicists.
The Physics Society of Iran challenged the scientific foundation of the claim and offered to submit any supporting documentation to specialists for scientific evaluation. Contemporary accounts characterized the society’s reaction as placing the claimed remote detection of nanoscale viral particles closer to science fiction than established physics.
That distinction matters enormously.
This was not:
Iran versus the West.
It was not:
American propaganda versus Iranian science.
Iranian scientists themselves were asking for the evidence.
🍲 The Antenna Had Apparently Led Another Life
Then the story became stranger.
Investigators discovered that an extremely similar device had appeared before COVID.
In 2017, Iranian reporting described an electronic detector supposedly capable of locating smuggled fuel from several meters to hundreds of meters away in less than five seconds.
The language describing its operation was eerily familiar: an electronic field and the alleged “bipolar” properties of the target material. Photographs and reporting connected that earlier device to Kambiz Golshani, who was also associated with the coronavirus detector.
The target had changed.
The machine apparently had not changed very much.
Yesterday:
Find fuel.
Today:
Find coronavirus.
Other reporting connected similar devices and their promoter to still earlier detection claims, including mine detection.
A device that appears capable of changing professions faster than most human beings should itself have produced one obvious question:
Was anyone at the top asking questions before the cameras were turned on?
🌱 سالی که نکوست، از بهارش پیداست
And here the old Persian farmer enters the story.
سالی که نکوست، از بهارش پیداست.
A good year reveals itself in its spring.
But the reverse contains just as much wisdom:
گاهی سالی که نکو نیست هم از همان بهارش پیداست.
Sometimes a bad year reveals itself in its spring too.
Mostaan 110 matters today not because an antenna from 2020 deserves another round of laughter.
It matters because it gives us a tiny window into something much larger:
How does information travel upward inside a closed system?
Who says:
Stop.
Who asks:
Show me the evidence.
Who tells the commander:
Sir, before you stand in front of national television and attach the prestige of the armed forces to this device, perhaps an independent laboratory should test it first?
That is the real story.
Because the dangerous part was never the antenna.
The dangerous part was the decision-making chain that allowed the antenna to reach the stage.
🧠 From a Coronavirus Detector to a National Security Doctrine
Six years later, a remarkable parallel appears in the political-military discussion contained in the material reviewed by Red Blood Journal.
The uploaded transcript presents what its speaker calls “ten illusions” repeatedly promoted by senior Islamic Republic and IRGC figures.
Among them:
The belief that if Iran could not export oil, nobody else would be able to export oil either.
The belief that closing the Strait of Hormuz would push oil to $150 or $200 per barrel, create a global crisis and force Washington to retreat.
The belief that Iran possessed missile power capable of devastating Haifa and Tel Aviv.
The repeated claim that Iranian weapons could sink American aircraft carriers.
The expectation that IRGC fast boats could overwhelm American naval forces.
The expectation that massive missile-and-drone attacks could cause Israeli air-defense systems to collapse.
The confidence placed in Iran’s supposedly integrated air-defense network.
The belief that Iran’s regional proxy network created layers of protection through which an enemy could never reach Iran itself.
And ultimately, according to the transcript, the belief that Iran had become so militarily formidable that no country would dare attack it at all.
The transcript’s speaker argues that reality eventually tested these assumptions and exposed severe gaps between rhetoric and capability.
Whether examining every military claim individually or not, Mostaan 110 gives us a more fundamental question to ask.
What if the problem begins before the missile is ever launched?
📡 The Antenna Was a Miniature Model
Perhaps Mostaan 110 was not merely an embarrassing footnote of the pandemic.
Perhaps it was a miniature model.
An organization says an antenna can find a virus.
Someone below approves it.
Someone above believes it—or at least decides it is useful to present.
Technical vocabulary gives it sophistication.
Uniforms give it authority.
Cameras give it legitimacy.
Repetition gives it familiarity.
And eventually familiarity begins masquerading as proof.
Now enlarge that same mechanism.
Replace the coronavirus detector with a missile.
Replace the antenna with a radar.
Replace the dish with a naval doctrine.
Replace “100 meters” with “we control the Strait of Hormuz.”
Replace “five seconds” with “we can overwhelm their defenses.”
Replace “80 percent accurate” with “nobody will dare attack us.”
And suddenly the funny little machine is not quite so funny anymore.
⚠️ The Most Dangerous Weapon in a Closed System
A technologically primitive device can be replaced.
A bad radar can be upgraded.
A missile can be redesigned.
A failed military doctrine can be rewritten.
But there is something considerably harder to repair:
a leadership culture that cannot distinguish contradiction from disloyalty.
The Stone Age is not defined by the absence of smartphones.
A government can possess satellites, ballistic missiles, drones, centrifuges, artificial intelligence and enormous computer networks and still operate with an ancient governing instinct:
The chief speaks. Therefore the statement becomes reality.
That is not science.
That is hierarchy wearing a laboratory coat.
And a country governed that way has a peculiar vulnerability.
The first victim of propaganda eventually becomes the propagandist himself.
If propaganda is only intended for the population, leadership may still know the truth.
But if the leadership begins consuming its own propaganda, the situation changes completely.
A false statement becomes an intelligence estimate.
The intelligence estimate becomes doctrine.
Doctrine becomes strategy.
Strategy meets reality.
And ordinary people receive the bill.
👨👩👧👦 And That Is Where the Story Stops Being Funny
The uploaded transcript eventually leaves missiles, aircraft carriers and Hormuz behind.
It arrives somewhere much more important:
the lives of ordinary Iranians.
It describes an economy contracting under war and pressure, lost jobs, gasoline shortages, sanctions affecting banking and transportation, and growing disruption to everyday necessities.
It then moves into what people actually experience:
fuel,
electricity,
inflation,
internet,
schools,
housing,
and the increasingly difficult business of simply maintaining an ordinary life.
That is where the antenna story finally lands.
The person presenting the impossible detector does not necessarily pay the greatest price for institutional fantasy.
The farmer does.
The shopkeeper does.
The mother wondering whether school will open does.
The worker watching purchasing power disappear does.
The child losing another year of education does.
The citizen standing in a gasoline line does.
Reality always sends the invoice somewhere.
🩸 The Red Blood Perspective
The easiest article to write about Mostaan 110 would be comedy.
An antenna.
A dish.
A virus 100 meters away.
Five seconds.
Everyone laughs.
But that would miss the warning.
The machine is not the story.
The system that carried the machine all the way to the commander of the IRGC and then onto national television is the story.
The question is not:
How could someone invent this?
Human beings invent absurd things every day.
The important question is:
How did the filters fail?
Where was the scientist who could say no?
Where was the physician who could demand clinical evidence?
Where was the engineer who could request a controlled test?
Where was the institution sufficiently independent to stop political prestige from turning an unvalidated assertion into a national announcement?
A civilization does not advance merely because it owns advanced machinery.
It advances when truth is allowed to defeat authority.
That may be the measurement that matters most.
🌊 Ocean of Love and Positivity Perspective
And strangely, here is the positive side.
The antenna teaches.
The embarrassment teaches.
The failed prediction teaches.
Even shattered illusions teach.
Because there is tremendous freedom in discovering that something believed for years was never true.
A false belief collapsing is not merely a loss.
It is space being created for reality.
And reality is fertile ground.
The Persian farmer understood this long before modern political systems existed.
He watched the spring.
He did not argue with the soil.
He did not order the clouds to issue a correction.
He did not arrest the tree because it refused to blossom.
He observed.
He learned.
He adjusted.
That ancient farmer may therefore have possessed something more advanced than all the antennas, missiles and slogans in the world:
the humility to allow reality to teach him.
And this is where the story can leave Tehran, Washington, Tel Aviv, the IRGC and every government behind.
Because the same little Mostaan 110 exists inside every human being.
It appears whenever the mind falls in love with an idea and stops checking whether the idea remains true.
Whenever pride says:
I cannot be wrong.
Whenever ego says:
The evidence must change because I will not.
Whenever the animal instinct protects identity while the observer quietly asks:
But what is actually true?
That quiet observer is where freedom begins.
A person who can catch his own illusion before reality has to destroy it is already doing what governments often cannot.
Looking inward.
Questioning himself.
Removing the antenna from his own hand.
Listening again.
Learning again.
Beginning again.
And perhaps that is the most hopeful meaning hidden inside the old Persian saying.
سالی که نکوست، از بهارش پیداست.
The spring can warn us.
But spring is also the season of renewal.
If we recognize what the first shoots are telling us, the rest of the year does not have to repeat the same mistake.
That is true for nations.
And it is true for us.
In an Ocean of Love and Positivity.
🩸🌊✨ Fantastic!
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The Antenna of Illusion: When Propaganda Meets Reality
Aug 25, 2026
The text analyzes a 2020 incident where the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unveiled a fraudulent device claimed to detect COVID-19 from a distance using magnetic fields. Using this “Mostaan 110” antenna as a metaphor, the author explores how closed authoritarian systems suffer from a breakdown in internal truth-seeking and scientific rigor. This institutional failure allows unsubstantiated propaganda to ascend the chain of command until it is mistakenly adopted as national military doctrine. The source argues that when leadership begins to believe its own rhetorical illusions regarding missiles and regional power, the eventual collision with reality results in severe economic and social costs for ordinary citizens. Ultimately, the narrative serves as a warning about the dangers of ego and the vital necessity of allowing independent evidence to challenge authority.
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