The mullahs know that the severe threat to their regime that Donald Trump posed will soon be over. The Iranian nuclear deal that enables Iran’s nuclear program and opens the door for it to receive billions from a thoughtless, imprudent, and willfully ignorant West will soon be back on. So now is the time to […]
Islamic Republic of Iran: Convert from Islam to Christianity gets 80 lashes for drinking communion wine
Zaman Fadaei could have been executed, as he is a convert from Islam, and the death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the […]
Iran Denounces Sudan’s Normalization Agreement As Paying ‘Ransom’
Tehran appears to be almost as unhinged as the Palestinians in its reaction to the normalization agreements that three Arab states – the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan (once its government approves the deal) – have now made with Israel. Iran’s charge of “ransom” is reported on here: “Iran slams Sudan’s Israel deal, says it paid […]
Iran rejects talks with US over missile, nuclear programs, inadvertently admits to its nuclear Intentions
Remember: all along, Iran has been claiming that its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes. Yet now the Ayatollah Khamenei has inadvertently admitted to Iran’s intentions: America’s brutal sanctions on Iran are aimed at collapsing our economy … Their aim is to limit our influence in the region and to halt our missile and […]
New speaker of Iran’s parliament used gunfire on student protesters in 2003, vows revenge for killing of Soleimani
Iran’s parliament has elected Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a former mayor of Tehran who is tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as its speaker, “solidifying hardline control of the body as tensions between the US and the Islamic Republic remain high over the collapsed nuclear deal.” The new position also places Qalibaf in Iran’s Supreme […]
American research team discloses undeclared nuclear weapons development site in Iran
In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered proof that the Iran nuclear deal was based on lies. He revealed a cache of documents that demonstrated conclusively that “Iran lied to the world about its nuclear program for years, even after the 2015 nuclear deal with the world.” Now, “a team of American experts says […]
Canada: Iran now threatening family members of the Ukraine jet it shot down
The thuggery and aggression of the Iranian regime led to the shutting down of the Iranian embassy in Canada in 2012, during the tenure of the former Conservative government. The regime was expanding its fifth column operations, calling for infiltration of the government by Islamic regime loyalists, and for attacks on the United States. Former […]
Iran: Closure of Shiite pilgrimage sites over coronavirus prompts sit-ins and protests
Even as the country is roiled by the pandemic, many still believe Allah will protect the virus from hurting them. This idea is in line with the Islamic view that Allah blesses the pious and punishes the impious in this world, and that the more one strives to please Allah the more one will prosper. […]
Rouhani: “It is unbearable for the United States to accept the victory” of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Given the Iranian people’s massive discontent with the Islamic regime, it may not be something that anyone will have to bear much longer. “Iran’s Rouhani says Islamic Revolution ‘unbearable’ for US,” AFP, February 11, 2020: Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani charged Tuesday that the United States finds it “unbearable” that the Islamic Revolution […]
In Iran, It’s Again “Death to Palestine”
The immediate cause of the latest protests in Iran against the government was the shooting down of the Ukrainian passenger jet. Iranians on the streets were angry with their own government both for its incompetence in failing to recognize the jet as a passenger plane, and for its lying to the world about what caused […]
Iran: University students refuse to walk over US, Israeli flags, boo those who do
Forty years of anti-American and anti-Israeli propaganda, and this is how much Iran’s Islamic regime is hated within Iran. “Students at Beheshti University of Tehran Refuse to Walk Over U.S., Israel Flags, Boo People Who Do,” MEMRI, January 12, 2020 On January 12, during the second day of protests in Iran following Iran’s acknowledgment of […]
Iranians chant “Down with the dictator” after regime admits it downed civilian plane
The Iranian regime is severely threatened, despite the Democratic Party’s best efforts to prop it up. After university campuses, I’m getting footage of Iranians in the streets chanting against the regime tonight. They ‘re saying “Down with the dictator”. Iranians are furious with the regime after it recklessly shot down a civilian aircraft that claimed […]
The Baghdad Embassy Siege: Did the Iranian Mullahs Think Donald Trump Would React Like Jimmy Carter?
My latest in PJ Media: The Islamic Republic of Iran, facing demonstrations at home that threaten its very existence and more in Iraq that threaten that country’s Shi’ite proxy government, is resorting to a tested and true strategy. Fox News reports that “crowds of angry Iraqis protesting America’s recent airstrikes against an Iran-backed militia have […]
Iran is Sinking, and Not Just Figuratively
The moral bankruptcy of the Islamic Republic is displayed every day in every way. The executions of Baha’is, the hanging of homosexuals, the imprisonment and torture of dissidents, the arrest of women who dare to remove their hijabs, the outsourcing of terrorist attacks to Hezbollah, the hysterical threats to destroy Israel, are all of a […]
Islamic Republic of Iran warns that Qur’an-burning in Norway could have “dangerous consequences”
The attempt to intimidate the West into criminalizing criticism of Islam continues, with incidents such as this one in Norway as a pretext. “‘Extremism & violence’: Iran joins Pakistan in blasting Norway for Koran burning stunt under the pretext ‘freedom of expression,’” RT, November 26, 2019: Tehran has summoned its Norwegian envoy to voice “strong […]
Iran: Top dog of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tells US and Israel “We will destroy you”
Fox follows the standard establishment media practice here of leaving the “Islamic” part out of the name “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.” Why? Why must the American people be constantly lied to and misled? This organization calls itself the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Why should the American media call it anything else? What are they trying […]
Iran: Demonstrators chant “We don’t want an Islamic Republic, we don’t want it, we don’t want it”
The regime that Obama and the political and media elites did all they could to keep in power is deeply threatened. “Protests Incited by Gas Price Hike Grip Iran,” by Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, November 16, 2019: Protests flared across Iran for a second day on Saturday, with angry crowds calling for the ouster […]
Islamic Republic of Iran: Thousands scream “Death to America” to celebrate 40th anniversary of US embassy seizure
If Trump hadn’t removed the United States from Obama’s nuclear deal, they wouldn’t be screaming “Death to America,” and peace would be reigning, right? Wrong. They were screaming “Death to America” even as the nuclear deal was being concluded. The mullahs have been pushing for war with the United States for decades, and the nuclear […]
Iranian mullahs allow Al-Qaeda network “to operate in Iran, which sends fighters and money to Afghanistan and Syria”
I warned about Iranian support for al-Qaeda in my 2016 book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Nice to see the State Department catching up to me. “Iran remains worst state-sponsor of terror, works with al-Qaeda,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, November 4, 2019: The US State Department’s new report on terrorism lists the Islamic […]
Helping Protect Itself Against Iran, Israel Helps Protect Many Others
Not long before tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran reached an unprecedented high point, with the possibility looming of a war that could engulf many other countries besides those two, Israel located a secret Iranian site in Beirut, right near the airport, in the midst of a heavily-populated area (surrounded by thousands of civilians, as […]