Tag: Iran
‘Death to America! Death to Israel!’ chants ring out at Raisi’s funeral
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei oversaw a memorial service at Tehran University on Wednesday to honor President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others killed in a recent helicopter crash.
“Oh Allah, we didn’t see anything but good...
Hamas terror leader Haniyeh meets with Khamenei in Tehran
Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas terrorist movement’s political bureau, was pictured meeting with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Wednesday.
In the picture, released by Khamenei’s office, Haniyeh is sitting on the couch along with...
Jews in Iran ‘shocked and angered’ about looming execution of young Jew
The imminent execution of a young Jewish man the Iranian regime has sentenced to death has been postponed, Iranian Jewish activists in the United States told JNS.
Arvin Ghahramani, age 20, according to news reports,...
UN flags at half-mast in New York to honor ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Raisi
The day after critics slammed the United Nations for holding a moment of silence for the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, the global body lowered flags...
IAF strike on Hezbollah site in Syria kills six
At least six Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli strike on the terrorist group’s headquarters in Al-Qusayr, southwest of Homs, Syria, near northern Lebanon on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The...
Buried facts about the Gaza war
The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping.
The Biden administration...
Israel and “Last things”
Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971)
Emeritus Professor of International Law
Purdue University
lberes@purdue.edu
Examined historically, war and terror against Israel are better explained by eschatology (the study of “last things”) than by enemy hopes for “self-defense” or...
Jordan thwarts Iranian plan to smuggle weapons into kingdom
Amman thwarted a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into Jordan to carry out acts of sabotage and undermine the ruling Hashemite dynasty, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
The arms were...
Deeper insights on Iran war and jihadist terror
Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971)
Emeritus Professor of International Law
Purdue University
lberes@purdue.edu
“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”
Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000)
At first glance, Iranian aggression and jihadist terrorism are about secular political goals....
Iranian lawmaker: We might already have a nuclear bomb
Iran might already possess a nuclear bomb, a lawmaker close to the regime said over the weekend, amid public threats by officials in Tehran to weaponize the country’s atomic program, Iran International reported.
Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, who...