Tag: Iranians

As the specter of escalation in the Middle East looms ever larger, it’s well worth remembering that the government of Iran doesn’t represent those it presumes to speak for: the people of Iran. Many Iranians...

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,...

(Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press.) On November 4, 1979 Iranian militants seized control of the US embassy in Tehran and kidnapped over...

The first woman of Iranian descent to become a member of a Canadian provincial parliament wants Jews to know that they are not as isolated as they may think. “The Jewish community has more allies...

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Monday revealed more details about an investigation initially publicized last month into Iranian efforts via social media networks to recruit Israeli citizens online to carry out terrorist...

At least 14 people were killed and several others were wounded in central Damascus on Wednesday morning in an explosion on a Syrian military bus, Syrian state TV reported. According to additional reports from Syrian...

Two Iranian nationals have been federally charged in connection with a coordinated cyber-intrusion campaign—sometimes at the behest of the Iranian government—allegedly targeting computers in New Jersey, elsewhere in the United States, Europe and the...

The chief rabbi of Iran’s Jewish community, Yehuda Gerami, criticized the Israeli government on Sunday, denying any connection between Judaism and Zionism and claiming there was “total freedom of religion” in Iran. In a Hebrew-language...