India, Jan. 11 -- As mass protests and a severe internet blackout grip Iran, followers of modern prognosticator Athos Salome are pointing to his past warnings as evidence of a foretold collapse. The Brazilian psychic, often called the "Living Nostradamus," has a series of 2025-2026 predictions that believers directly link to the current Iranian unrest and the concurrent Venezuela crisis.

He didn't name the protests directly. But in his characteristically cryptic way, Salome had been speaking of the seeds of this moment. He warned of a world on the edge of "invisible warfare," where societies crack under digital pressure, and the Middle East would enter a volatile new phase. For many of his followers, the screens going dark in Iran, just ...