A new page in the Russo-Iranian partnership
February 23, 2023 by Ilan Berman
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In July 2022, against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin embarked on a notable foreign trip. Read more
Looney Tunes
February 3, 2023 by Michael Kuttner
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I remember as a youngster (last century) that one of the “shorts” always shown in the cinema before the main feature film was a series of cartoons called Looney Tunes. Read more
Moscow sends veiled warning to Israel over Iranian blast
February 1, 2023 by Pesach Benson
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Russia made an implied threat against Israel and the US on Monday while condemning a recent drone strike on an Iranian weapons facility. Read more
Netanyahu’s surprising pick for National Security Adviser is ominous message to Iran
January 2, 2023 by Tamir Morag
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Tzachi Hanegbi is about to become one of the most influential figures in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government after the Prime Minister appointed him to the position of National Security Adviser and head of the National Security Council (NSC). Read more
The Iranian regime is intensifying its violence against protesters
December 14, 2022 by
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The wave of protests and social upheaval that erupted in Iran following 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of Iran’s morality police, who had detained her for “improperly” wearing her hijab, has not died down…writes Ioannis E. Kotoulas. Read more
Iran authorities execute four ‘Israeli spies’
Iranian authorities have executed four people accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the state-run IRNA news agency says. Read more
Qatar’s farcical World Cup begins
November 20, 2022 by J-Wire
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Even before the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar kicked off, the tournament already had a hero: the former captain of the Iranian national team, Ali Daei. Read more
‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi:’ Iran’s Kurdish message
October 16, 2022 by Ben Cohen
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As demonstrations against Iran’s ruling theocracy intensify, many observers have been struck by the slogan chanted by protestors and printed on t-shirts, posters and flyers: “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi”—“Women, Life, Freedom.” Read more
Khamenei blames hijab riots on ‘Zionist regime’ and US
The recent riots in Iran in response to the killing of Mahsa Amini are “plots by the US and Zionist regime [Israel],” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has claimed. Read more
Israel’s UN envoy calls to ban Iranian president from assembly over Holocaust denial
September 19, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Gilad Erdan, called on the international body to deny Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi the right to address the assembly after he questioned the historical truth of the Holocaust. Read more
Tehran’s accelerating march to a nuclear weapons arsenal
September 14, 2022 by Dore Gold
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Since the start of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West, Tehran has managed to create an impression that it has kept to the terms of the various agreements reached and that it was the West, and above all, the United States, which violated them. There were two purposes to pursuing this diplomatic strategy. Read more
An end to the delusions about Biden, Iran and Israel?
August 28, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Like any gambler who is willing to seize on any glimmer of hope that irresponsible betting will be rewarded with an unexpected reversal of fortune, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid was sounding hopeful this week. Read more
Netanyahu: New nuclear deal with Iran ‘paves with gold’ path to bomb
Israeli opposition leader and head of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Wednesday that the nuclear deal currently being negotiated with Tehran would “pave with gold” Iran’s path to nuclear weapons. Read more
Rushdie and the Satanic clerics of Iran
August 16, 2022 by Thane Rosenbaum
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In May 2015, the PEN Literary Gala presented its Freedom of Expression Courage Award to the slain cartoonists of the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo.” Read more
Report: Rushdie’s attacker had direct contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Hadi Matar, who attempted to murder writer Salman Rushdie last week, is believed to have had direct contact with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps via social media, Vice World News reported on Sunday. Read more
The satanic stabbing of Salman Rushdie and the dangerous Iran deal
August 15, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
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The attempted murder on Friday of Salman Rushdie is the latest in a string of appalling incidents that ought to put the United States and its P5+1 partners to shame for their efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with the evil regime in Tehran. Read more
Report: IRGC missile engineer assassinated in Iran
July 25, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
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Said Samardar Mutalag, a missile engineer working for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) died in recent days in the city of Shiraz in Iran, several reports say, the latest Iranian scientist tied to the country’s weapons program to die of mysterious circumstances. Read more
Report: Turkey’s intelligence organization nabs Iranian assassination team
June 24, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
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Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) arrested an eight-man cell that was working on behalf of the Iranian secret service to target Israelis in the country, Turkish media reported Thursday. Read more
Iran president vows Tehran death revenge
Iran will avenge the killing of a colonel of the Revolutionary Guards, President Ebrahim Raisi has pledged ahead of a trip to Oman, media reports say. Read more
Ramadan goes out with a bang
May 2, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
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Tens of thousands took to the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities and villages on the last Friday of Ramadan to participate in the Islamic Republic’s annual Quds [Jerusalem] Day rallies. Read more
Iran has accumulated 40 kg of 60% enriched uranium in past year
April 7, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
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Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid held a briefing on Wednesday for 80 foreign ambassadors stationed in Israel, against the background of the wave of terrorism, the Iranian threat and the remerging nuclear deal, and other issues on the agenda. Read more
Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine
March 25, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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Two women and a rabbi were among four Israelis murdered in a terrorist attack this week in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. Read more
Must Bennett wave the white flag on a new Iran deal?
March 24, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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As far as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is concerned, there’s no point in getting into a fight you can’t win. Read more
US prepares to sign major appeasement deal with Iran
March 23, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
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As the Biden administration prepares to sign a final deal with Iran that has been lambasted by numerous experts as nothing short of a major appeasement of the Islamic regime, Washington is now also weighing the removal of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from a terror blacklist in return for a public commitment from Iran to de-escalation in the region. Read more
Iran ‘thwarts nuclear site sabotage bid’
Iranian state television says its security forces have thwarted planned sabotage at the country’s major Fordow nuclear site by a network it accused Israel of recruiting. Read more
Iranian regime supports Putin’s ‘special operation’ in Ukraine
March 3, 2022 by
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After hesitating at the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Iranian regime is now fully backing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special operation” there…writes Micky Segall. Read more
Netanyahu: Israel must ‘speak out’ against Iran deal
Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday that the nuclear agreement being finalized between world powers and Iran in Vienna would give Iran a path to a nuclear weapon and urged Israeli decision-makers to actively campaign against it. Read more
Feintooner
February 14, 2022 by Feintooner
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This week’s cartoon. Quid pro no. Read more
How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal
February 11, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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As Iran reportedly reaches the brink of obtaining enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon, the Biden administration is now astoundingly colluding with this lethal rogue state against the interests of Israel and America’s allies in the region. Read more
How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war
January 28, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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As the Ukraine crisis continues, one question, in particular, poses itself: How can it be that having defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the West is now unable to get the better of the leader of the bankrupt kleptocracy that replaced communism in Russia? Read more