Ayatollah Khamenei knew he was a target — Israel’s most important — and he took great care not to let his movements be known. He had several places where he believed himself to be secure, including some hideouts built deep underground, under apartment blocks, and of course in his enormous compound in the middle of […]
Pakistan: Troops summoned, 3-day curfew imposed as dozens are killed in pro-Iran regime rallies
The infamous barbaric Pakistani jihadists are losing their minds (yet again). This time, it isn’t over “blasphemy” in the West, where their mob rule doesn’t exist, but they try to enforce it anyway. It’s over the U.S.-Israel strike that killed Ayatollah Khamenei, who was the leader of the world’s Twelver Shia sect — the world’s largest Shia […]
Palestinian Authority remains quiet in wake of Khamenei killing, while surrounding jihad orgs mourn
The silence of the Palestinian Authority (PA) over the killing of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei reveals the delicate dynamics of Middle East politics. The article below explains the reason for the PA’s quietness. What stands out prominently is the effect of the strength of the Trump administration, in stark contrast to the weakness of the Biden […]
How Is Israel Doing?
How is Israel doing? In the first day of hostilities, it eliminated Iran’s supreme leader. The same morning, it killed at least forty of Iran’s senior civilian and military leaders, including the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and dozens of IRGC commanders. It killed the head of Iran’s army, and the director […]
Israel co-opted Iranian prayer app to send mass notifications urging defections from the Islamic regime
This is extremely clever, as many, if not most, of those who hate the Islamic regime have actually gone so far as to leave Islam altogether. So the preponderance of the people using this app are likely to be regime loyalists. This is akin to the blowing-up of the Hizballah pagers, which was also a […]
Israel Strikes Headquarters of the Iranian Authorities Who Suppress the Protesters
Israel is hoping that after a few more days of crushing blows inflicted on them, those who in Iran are entrusted with the task of suppressing anti-regime protesters will be sufficiently weakened, so that mass protests can again take place, grow in size, and eventually “take back” their country, as President Donald Trump has urged […]
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s miscalculation in its war with the U.S. and Israel, and the reaction of the Gulf states
The Islamic Republic of Iran certainly had enough notice that it was headed to war, given the sheer magnitude of American military buildup — the largest in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which included the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln to the Arabian Sea on January 26, while the USS […]
Iran: 99-year-old Ayatollah Shirazi declares jihad against U.S. and Israel
When Shirazi says that “revenge is the religious duty of all Muslims worldwide,” he is reflecting Islamic theology. His statement recalls the classic Islamic theological distinction that jihad is an obligation on the community as a whole (fard kifaya), and an individual is released from it if others are taking it up, but can only […]
Gulf countries slam Iran’s attack on US targets on their soil
As Iran launches strikes against American targets across the region, its strategy is backfiring. Saudi Arabia says it will join the U.S. in operations against the Islamic Republic. And other Gulf states are in a fury, as explosions have been heard in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. These countries have confirmed […]
Israeli Muay Thai Fighter Thrashes Malignant and Unturbaned Turk
It was one of those Joe-Louis-defeats-Max-Schmeling moments, where the good guy defeats the bad guy, and his victory takes on a symbolic significance. In 1938, in a second boxing match — the first, in 1936, Schmeling won — Joe Louis, an American black man, representing the United States, defeated the German Max Schmeling. A German […]