Good piece of advice, mate. Some days ago I was asking the same question to a member of my Pakistani community, like, how can we buy gold online? Like in other countries, users buy it in the form of stock, but we are unable to buy gold online.
It is a common theme to see a lot of scams surrounding a certain form of investment whenever there is a lot of interest toward that "asset". We've seen a lot of them in Bitcoin world over the years (like silly "bitcoin doublers" or the cloudmining scams). Gold is similar, its price has been soaring extremely fast.
That means we need to be extra vigilant at times like this.
In Iran we are lucky to have a very active
physical gold market where trustworthy gold coils can be traded. Like this one below. They are issued by the central bank, so you are sure it is actually gold and the purity, weight, etc. are all clear. They can be traded rather easily too. They are as small as 1 gram as well (it's like 100 bucks) so you don't need a big capital to start investing. So in my opinion there really is no reason to buy virtual gold online specially since it is risky.
Other than this, I was a little worried about you, as you had not been active for a long time on the forum. Some days ago I made a post where I mentioned you, but I think you could not notice. Well, tell me everything is ok with you and your family and your surroundings? What about the current situation in Iran? I hope/wish everything will be ok soon in Iran, InshaAllah! And good to see you back here online.
I appreciate that.
Sadly the West has declared war on us because we have a lot of natural resources which they want to plunder and are getting increasingly more desperate for it every day. And of course there is also geographical location of Iran which if they succeed in their evil plans to destroy, would also destroy and destabilize the entire West Asia which they would use to counter both Russia and China (like a geographical blockade on both of them, specially China's Road and Belt thing).
What we experienced for a couple of days this month (mainly January 8 and 9, 2026) was the continuation of that war as another phase. I had even predicted the nature of this phase 7 months ago in the previous phase of this war in
this topic in the Politics board. Specifically in the SitRep summary below. Basically the terrorist attacks on January 8 and 9 carried out by US backed Takfiri terrorists were the dotted line below named "Future".
I created this simple chart to roughly show the timeline from Friday till today focusing on the number of terrorist attacks US regime carried out across Iran using its various proxies including MEK and various takfiri groups like ISIS.
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The first phase of the war NATO began against Iran using their terrorist proxies is over with Iran dominating NATO forces very quickly and easily despite the damage NATO forces did to Iran and the civilians they murdered.
We saw Iran launch this weird ass missile
https://www.talkimg.com/image/UuzPio (that's the trail) and I still think this was the first ICBM Iran used to send a message considering the way it was going up vertically and "tearing open" the atmosphere.
This is not the end though.
Iran has managed to neutralized a huge percentage of US regime's sleeper terrorist cells so far but it in no way is all of them. Some seem to have crawled into their holes waiting to be activated again (reason 1 for the dotted line above in the Future section).[...]
Which will bring us to the next phase, it will begin soon (reason 2 for the dotted line in Future section). I can think of a bunch of scenarios,
the "sleeper terrorist cells" that crawled into a hole will come out in another surprise attack while US regime deploys its other proxies, this time trying to enter from borders (eg. the
Komoleh terrorists we saw activate 3 years ago as well when US regime was trying a similar tactic).
We could also see US regime announce its direct involvement and try to increase the "firepower" and make some noise in the first day or two of the second phase.I don't expect any different outcome though!
Everything I had predicted came true precisely... unfortunately
What happened was that because of sudden economic decision made by the government (جراحی اقتصادی) the exchange rate became volatile and Rial started going down. So naturally business owners specifically in the Bazars started showing their disagreement in peaceful protests and there were no problems there until the US proxies got involved and tried to take over the protests and turn them violent. Which they did exactly that on January 8 which is when US regime activated its terrorist sleeper cells and these Takfiri terrorists started murdering people on the streets, attacked ambulances, health workers, hospitals, fire stations, they burnt down libraries and ancient hand written books, attacked mosques and burnt Qurans, attacked pedestrians that were just walking by, burnt peoples vehicles and shops, ... and finally started shooting people to increase casualties and repeat what CIA had done in Syria.
As I had predicted the US regime even announced its involvement and support for these acts of terrorism. But they never dared to get involved because they got surprised by the reaction Iranians showed.
Example: US sponsored armed terrorists entering Mashhad Metro station:
First Iran's National Security Council decided to issue
a complete communication blackout on January 8, which meant no internet, no cell phones, no other form of communication. But most importantly for the first time Iran not only
disabled Starlink but also used its signals to find the terrorist cells (خونه تیمی) and neutralize their entire network very rapidly. Which is why US regime was surprised by this defeat in only 48 hours.
This "blackout" helped cut the communication of the terrorists with Pentagon and most importantly prevent the cryptocurrency payments to reach them. These are mercenaries after all, and they were being paid by the US regime in bitcoin and tether for each act of terrorism they committed (I believe burning a person alive had the highest pay rate, they just needed to film it and sent it to Pentagon).
The other major defeat of the US regime was when tens of millions of Iranians marched in all provinces of Iran on January 12 condemning these US sponsored terrorist attacks regardless of still not being happy about the government economic decisions I mentioned above.
We are in the days of Hybrid Warfare and another weapon NATO uses against us is cyber attacks. The internet blockade helped prevent that (attacks that we experienced back in June 2025 as well and at least one bank and an Iranian CEX got hacked by NATO attackers).
Obviously the immediate consequence of that blockade was that I couldn't access anything like bitcointalk for about 2 weeks
