On the 8th of December 2024 Bashar al-Assad’s autocratic government collapsed in Syria after a major offensive by opposition forces of HTS (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham) backed by Turkey. This was a major set back for Iran in the region as Syrian ruler from Assad’s family was from Shia sect and they were staunch supporter of Shia dominated Iran in the region. Israel’s military operations against Hamas in West bank and on Hezbollah in Lebanon has already weaken the Iran’s strategic assets in the Middle East which he had built after the Islamic revolution in the country in 1979. Bashar al-Assad has now taken refuge in Moscow immediately after opposition forces of HTS had started taking control of the Syrian capital Damascus. The fall of Shia regime in Syria and the Israel’s offensive against Shia militia groups in Lebanon and Yemen had made Iran weak in this region.
Now under these new developments in the Middle East in the last one-year Iran has become more vulnerable towards a possible air strike of Israel on its Nuclear installations. The victory of Republican Party led by Donald Trump in the November 2024 USA elections was another bad news for Iran earlier. Donald Trump has pursued a policy of hard sanctions against Iran during his first tenure (January 2017 to January 2021). In year 2018 Donald Trump had withdraw the USA from the nuclear agreement with Iran which was signed in 2015 by President Barak Obama after years of international engagements.
{Note: This article of mine was appeared in the April 2025 issue of the Express Star Teller Magazine. The same has been reproduced here for the readers of my blog}
Now Donald Trump is expected to use his policy of ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran to stop him from making a nuclear bomb. In my article “Dangerous Rahu Maha Dasha of Israel” published at page number 19-21 of the October 2024 issue of EST I had forecast Iran-Israel tensions during summer of 2025 when transiting Saturn and Rahu will be in conjunction in Pisces sign.
Chart 1. Foundation Horoscope of Iran
1 April 1979, 15:00 hours at Tehran
51 E 25’ and 35 N 42’
Source: From Book of World Horoscope by Nicholas Campion
Iran with population of 84.9 million (8.92 crores) people is a regional power in the Middle East because of its large fossil fuel. It has third largest crude oil reserves and second largest natural gas reserves in the world. The foundation horoscope of Iran is set for the time when it was declared as an Islamic Republic on the 1st of April 1979 (at 03:00 PM at Tehran) after Iranian Revaluation. In the Cancer lagna chart of Iran the 8th house of natural resources has the 4th and 11th lord Venus which is in mutual aspect with the 8th lord Saturn which is also a natural karaka for underground wealth of oil, gas and minerals as per Mundane Astrology rules.
Dangerous Saturn-Rahu conjunction in transit
Now the transiting Saturn will come into Pisces sign on the 29th of March
and it will be in degree conjunction with Rahu which is already transiting there. But this conjunction of Saturn-Rahu will be for a duration of two months only as Rahu in his natural retrograde motion will move to the Aquarius sign on the 29th of May (True motion). Now see the foundation chart of Iran (chart 1) where the 9th house Pisces has Mars at 02 degrees 03 minutes and Mercury at 03 degrees 42 minutes. Now when the dangerous Saturn-Rahu conjunction will take place in Pisces sign it will be around the degrees of these two planets only.
Mars is the lord of 10th (ruler and government) and the 5th (diplomacy and students) in the foundation chart of Iran. Mercury is the lord of 12th (losses and espionage) and 3rd (neighbors and communication) placed in the 9th house of scientific achievements & foreign relations along with the Mars. The Vimshottari Dasha of Jupiter and Anter Dasha of Mars is running in the foundation chart of Iran from 5th of July 2024 to 10 June 2025. Then Jupiter Dasha and Rahu Anter Dasha will run from 10th of June 2025 to 4 November 2027. Jupiter as the lord of 6th house in Rashi chart shows territorial wars. Mars the Anter Dasha lord is badly placed in the 6th house in Navamsha.
The next Anter Dasha of Rahu is even more dangerous for Iran as Rahu is with 7th (war) and 8th (mass death and fall of government) lord Saturn in the 2nd house in royal sign Leo. There is a very high possibility that Israel may attack the nuclear facilities of Iran anytime during April-July period in 2025 and later USA will try to topple the authoritarian three-decade rule of Ali Khamenei by some secret plot of CIA. The year 2025-26 will be very critical for Iran’s President Ali Khamenei’s health also as during Rahu Dasha and Saturn’s Anter Dasha there are chances for a ‘national mourning’ in Iran’s horoscope as Saturn as the 7th lord aspect the 8th house in Rashi chart and in Navamsha Saturn is in the 7th house along with the 8th lord. The 8th house in Mundane Astrology is the house of the death of the national ruler.
Chart 2. Hindu New Year horoscope of Iran 2025
In the Hindu New Year or Pisces New Moon chart of Iran (29 March 2025, 14:27:39 hours at Tehran) the Cancer lagna is rising in Rashi chart (chart 2). Mars from the 12th house aspect the 7th house of war in Rashi. In Navamsha (D-9) and Shastiamsha (D-60) Mars is in the 4th house and aspect the 7th house from its 4th aspect. In the Hindu New Year chart of Iran the 4th lord (throne of ruler) is Venus which is in close conjunction with 12th lord (losses of war) Mercury. This bad conjunction of Venus-Mercury as the 4th and 12th lord in the Hindu New Year chart of Iran is very sensitive for its ruler Ali Khamenei. Aspect of Mars on the 7th house in Rashi, Navamsha and Shastiamsha is an indication of war.
In Navamsha of Hindu New Year natural malefic planets Saturn and Mars are in the 4th house. In Shastiamsha the 4th house gets the aspect of Saturn. The 4th house of the throne of the ruler is badly afflicted in Shashtiamsha (D-60) as Mars and Ketu there are afflicted by the 3rd aspect of Saturn.
Thus, the Hindu New Year chart of Iran (chart 2) also confirms a danger for Iran and its ruler Ali Khamenei during year 2025-26.
