Efrat Eldan Schechter is a native of the Northern Galilee and never even considered moving anywhere else to bring up her family – that is until the events of 7 October.
When she heard and watched reports of what was happening in southern Israel that morning, as heavily armed Hamas gunmen streamed out of Gaza, she was immediately taken back to stories from the “Yom Kippur” or 1973 Middle East war, when Israel was attacked simultaneously on two fronts.
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Although Iranian regime spokesmen are denying any connection between Iran and the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by the Iranian regime’s proxy Hamas, Iranian regime officials are glorifying this attack by stressing Iran’s overall victory over the West in general and the U.S. and Israel in particular.[1]
In ideological speeches since October 7, officials such as the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, and his deputy Ali Fadavi, along with IRGC Qods Force deputy commander Mohammad Reza Fallahzadeh and Tehran Friday preacher Ahmad Khatami, a senior member of the regime system of religious officials delivering the regime’s weekly messages to the public, have praised Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for setting the Islamic Revolution on the path to becoming universal. They are unfurling the global vision of the Iranian regime, according to which the West, led by the U.S., and Western culture, are the enemies of humanity and the party of Satan that is fighting the party of God – that is, Iran and Islam.
The US carried out an illegal missile strike on Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday in the latest escalation of the US-Israeli rampage throughout the Middle East.
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder confirmed that the US killed its target, identified as Mushtaq Jawad Kazim al-Jawari. Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces said that al-Jawari was the head of the Iranian-backed militia group Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, and that the strike also killed an Iraqi official and wounded five people.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah revealed in a speech that his terror militia had conducted around 670 armed attacks against Israel since October 8.
Instead of blaming Hamas and Hezbollah for dragging Lebanon into another war, the Lebanese government is rushing to accuse Israel of killing a Hamas fugitive and violating Lebanese airspace to attack Syria.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has taken delivery of a range of domestically-designed and manufactured military equipment, including Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis warship that features sophisticated radar-evading technologies, and 100 fast-attack crafts.
Here’s the full text of the written interview that I gave to Dutch journalist Laura Oorschot, who incorporated some of the insight during her appearance on blckbx’s livestream on this subject on 22 September.
Cette annonce fait suite à la colère après qu’une frappe de drone américain ait tué un dirigeant d’un parti politique à majorité chiite.
Le Premier ministre irakien a déclaré vendredi que le gouvernement mettrait en place un comité bilatéral pour préparer la fin de la mission de la coalition dirigée par les États-Unis dans le pays.
In addition to increasing the level of enriched uranium to near nuclear-weapons grade; helping to fund and plan a genocidal war against Israel; attacking US troops in Syria and Iraq with its militias more than 100 times in just the last two months to try to force the US out of the region, and incontinently bogus-trialing, torturing (even children) and executing its own citizens, the Iranian regime has also been orchestrating the assassinations of individuals, particularly those considered opponents to the ruling mullahs’ clerical establishment.
