Video taking off 23x its usual first day

Decoded turns to tanks in Iranshahr, and 160,000 views arrive in fourteen hours

A day after its Tehran fuel episode, Nikita Kapoor's explainer series leaves the capital for Iran's southeastern frontier and opens at more than twenty times a usual first day.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 205,017 views a day, 23 times a normal first day on this channel (8,987).

Iran Military At War With Own Citizens? IRGC Deploys Tanks And Drones On Iranian Streets | DecodedIran Military At War With Own Citizens? IRGC Deploys Tanks And Drones On Iranian Streets | Decoded

Decoded did it again. A day after Nikita Kapoor's episode on Tehran's fuel question opened at thirty times The Daily Jagran's usual pace, as we reported here, the next one is moving almost as fast. "Iran Military At War With Own Citizens? IRGC Deploys Tanks And Drones On Iranian Streets | Decoded" passed 158,000 views in its first fourteen hours. A new upload here usually gathers about 9,000 in a full day.

This episode is not about Tehran or the Strait of Hormuz. It goes to Sistan and Baluchestan, the far southeastern province that borders Pakistan and Afghanistan. The description says Iran has sent tanks, RPGs and surveillance drones into the city of Iranshahr. Kapoor walks through firefights in Gharibabad and attacks in Saravan. She traces the grievances of the province's Sunni Baluch population back to the 2022 events in Zahedan known as Bloody Friday. Her episode's argument is that Tehran is losing its grip on that frontier.

The Iran coverage around it moved at a different pace. A live feed on the FlyDubai flight incident, posted the next day, is near 18,000 views. A live stream of an IRGC volunteer rally in Tehran has a few thousand. Across the channel, daily views are running well above normal, and this one explainer carries a large share of that.

Under the video, the conversation is mostly about the Revolutionary Guard itself. Several commenters ask what the United Nations will say. Others ask how soldiers can be sent against cities their own families may come from.

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The facts
Subscribers
196,000
Channel views, pace per day
2,097,534 (on a normal day: 1,287,803)
Video published
September 30, 2026
Video views so far
158,663 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
205,017

The numbers

The numbers show a single explainer opening far faster than the channel's other uploads, on a day when the whole channel was busier than usual.

the video's first day
usual first day here
8,987
this video
205,017
subscribers
196,000
total views
138,357,888
views per day
2,097,534
typical day: 1,287,803
the video
views
158,663
likes
1,984
comments
176
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
5 News
201,000
The Daily Jagran
196,000
New York Times Opinion
193,000
Daily Wire News
187,000
Daily Mail News
182,000
The Canadian Press
176,000
As of October 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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