Berlin cancels auto show for Iran rally to destroy Israel

The “Classic Days” auto show in Berlin’s main shopping district was cancelled because “the anti-Jewish Al-Quds day demonstration was permitted by the authorities at the same time.” BENJAMIN WEINTHAL FEBRUARY 23, 2020 03:15 Berlin authorities pulled the plug on a scheduled  May Old-Timer auto show in favor of an Iranian regime rally  that calls for […]

Iran uses German and US visas to make films against Israel and America

Films whitewash Iranian regime’s crackdown of protests. Films bash the US and Israel. BENJAMIN WEINTHAL FEBRUARY 23, 2020 02:50 Iran’s intelligence ministry obtained visas from the German and US governments to produce anti-Western films that whitewash Tehran’s repression of Iranian protestors and bash the US and Israel. In a Friday article headlined “Iran’s Intelligence Ministry […]

Iran Cleric Blames Trump For Coronavirus Outbreak In Religious City

The Friday Prayer Imam of the religious city of Qom, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak in Iran, told his congregation Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump targeted the city with coronavirus “to damage its culture and honor”. Most of the coronavirus cases in Iran include people living in Qom and those who have visited the […]

Iran’s government and media lied about coronavirus outbreak, riots erupt

“Even the hospital medical staff, some of whom are infected with the coronavirus, are terrified.” SETH J. FRANTZMAN FEBRUARY 23, 2020 00:49 Iranians are scared and angry. Their government has been lying to them and their media was instructed not to report on the coronavirus outbreak as it rapidly spread from the religious city of […]

Hardline Guards make early gains in restricted Iran election

Iran’s rulers, under intense US pressure over the country’s nuclear program, need a high turnout to boost their legitimacy, damaged after nationwide protests in November. FEBRUARY 22, 2020 12:48 DUBAI – Candidates affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards looked on course to win a parliamentary majority on Saturday, reportedly leading in the race in Tehran and […]

Naftali Bennett: To stop Gaza terrorism, focus on Iran and Syria

“I will do everything to prevent a third Lebanon war, a 14th Protective Edge, to go to the source, to go to the same people who pay $1b. a year to Hezbollah” TZVI JOFFRE FEBRUARY 20, 2020 19:29 As Israel granted a record number of travel permits to Gaza merchants after weeks of explosive balloons, […]

Pompeo talks confronting Iran in Saudi and Oman amid tensions

Oman is important for regional security and for discussions with Iran because Oman frequently hosts Iranian diplomats. SETH J. FRANTZMAN FEBRUARY 22, 2020 00:15 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stopped in Saudi Arabia and Oman as part of a world tour that saw him travel to Munich and then Africa. He underlined the importance […]

Iran, Hezbollah stir chaos in Syria’s southwest

Behind Enemy Lines: Iran, Hezbollah and ongoing, armed resistance to Syria’s regime merge to create constant chaos JONATHAN SPYER FEBRUARY 20, 2020 22:28 The global spotlight has currently returned to Syria because of the Assad regime’s current bloody offensive in Idlib, Aleppo and Latakia provinces. The regime is trying to reduce the last enclave held […]

Components link Iran to drone attacks in eight countries

US CENTCOM reveals Iran’s role in smuggling weapons SETH J. FRANTZMAN FEBRUARY 20, 2020 01:25 Iran has been exporting drone technology to Yemen’s Houthi rebels over the last decade and similar components may link Iran to drone attacks in eight countries. A report by Conflict Armament Research on Wednesday provided a rare window into the […]

US ‘troubled’ by report Iranians want to raze tomb of Mordechai and Esther

Militant student group in Hamadan proposes turning Purim heroes’ tomb into Palestinian consulate in response to Trump plan; local official says site protected TOI staffToday, 7:35 am A US State Department body expressed concern this week over a report that Iranians were threatening to raze an ancient shrine revered by local Jews as the burial […]

The rise of Trump’s new pro-Israel and anti-Iran intel director – analysis

Richard Grenell took the lead in Europe by highlighting Iran’s genocidal antisemitism targeting Israel. BENJAMIN WEINTHAL FEBRUARY 21, 2020 01:14 US President Donald Trump’s Wednesday appointment of Richard Grenell, the American ambassador to Germany, to acting director of national intelligence should not ambush foreign policy specialists.Grenell’s meteoric rise within the US government was based on […]

Pompeo meets US troops in Saudi Arabia amid heightened tensions with Iran

State Department says ‘deployed missile defense and fighter jets to deter any future attacks’ US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited American troops in Saudi Arabia Thursday after talks with King Salman on the second day of a visit focused on countering Iran. The United States began building up its military presence at the Prince […]

Russia, Turkey, Iran reassert glory of past empires in today’s Middle East

The three countries see the Arab countries as weak and exploitable, and two of them, seek to reassert their former spheres of control there. JACK COHEN FEBRUARY 19, 2020 20:17 Three countries – Russia, Turkey and Iran – are currently trying to reassert their former influence and glory, harking back to the power and greatness […]