“Investigation by Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT alleges Tehran enlisted Swedish gangs to carry out targeted attacks in Europe, with Iran International among key targets”

Posted on June 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

IRAN INTERNATIONAL
Iran deployed Swedish gangs to target enemies abroad
Mehran Abbasian
June 21, 2025

…The documentary draws on intelligence documents, gang member testimonies and expert analysis to piece together what it called a disturbing operational pattern: Iranian operatives offering incentives in exchange for targeting designated entities. Among the top targets identified are Israeli interests and diplomatic missions and the London-based Persian language outlet Iran International. Iran International, which has a broad viewership inside Iran, has long faced threats from the Islamic Republic, but the report appeared to provide previously unreported details on Iran’s mobilization of street-level criminal networks to carry out attacks. READ MORE

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Would you want to be under the care of this doctor ?

Posted on June 21, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEWSWEEK
Who Is Feras Hamdan? Doctor Who Allegedly Drove Congressman Off Road
Dan Gooding and Gabe Whisnant
June 20, 2025

Feras Hamdan, a 36-year-old Ohio doctor, turned himself in with counsel on Friday and was arrested and charged after allegedly forcing Republican Representative Max Miller off the road in a road rage incident. According to Rocky River, Ohio, police, the incident occurred on June 15 when Hamdan allegedly tailgated Miller’s vehicle, swerved erratically, and ultimately veered into his lane, causing the congressman to drive off the road to avoid a collision. Police said Miller’s wife and 2-year-old son were also in the car at the time of the incident in the suburb of Cleveland. Rocky River Police Department confirmed to Newsweek Friday afternoon that Hamdan was a doctor. He appeared in court for arraignment earlier in the day…The police report says that Hamdan allegedly honked his horn, shouted threats, and made aggressive gestures toward Miller while pursuing his vehicle. Witnesses said that Hamdan repeatedly attempted to block Miller’s car from changing lanes before forcing it off the road. READ MORE

CNN Man arrested after Ohio GOP congressman says he was run off the road and threatened Miller called police on his way to work and read the license plate of the alleged perpetrator. At one point, he held out his phone for the 911 dispatcher to hear the honking and yelling, though the sounds were largely unintelligible. “I was just driving to work and I was cut off by a man in a Tesla who held up a Palestinian flag to me and then rolled down his window and said that I’m going to cut your throat and your daughter’s. And he said you’re a dirty Jew. I’m going to f**king kill you all, and I know who you are and where you live,” Miller said in the transferred call.

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“Influential media personality ​​Tucker Carlson revealed his true colors as the most dangerous spokesman for Replacement Theology in his recent interview with Texas Senator Ted Cruz”

Posted on June 21, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL365 NEWS
Tucker Carlson Embraces Replacement Theology and Curses Israel
Tuly Weisz
June 19, 2025

…[Tucker] Carlson, on the other hand, was expressing the view that Christianity in fact supersedes Judaism. After the Jews rejected Jesus, God broke His covenant with the nation of Israel and even replaced the “Old” Testament with the “New” one. This belief is known as Replacement Theology, and was the primary driver in Christian thought throughout history. Replacement Theology led directly to centuries of Christian antisemitism, Crusades, Inquisitions, pogroms and the Holocaust. After the horrors of World War Two and the miracles surrounding the founding of the State of Israel, millions of American Christians have rejected Replacement Theology in recent decades and have come to believe that God has maintained a special relationship with Israel, the land and the people. READ MORE

THE FREE PRESS Eli Lake: They Predicted World War III. They Were Wrong After the video of Sahar Emami, the Iranian news anchor in full chador diving for cover mid-rant as an Israeli bomb struck her studio, the most viral clip of the 12-day war was brought to you by a man who did his damnedest to prevent it: Tucker Carlson. On his podcast, Carlson responded on air to the first reports of Iranian strikes on the U.S. airbase in Qatar. “Ugh, this is just sad on every level,” he said, placing his hand on his heart. After reading the initial report of the strike from Axios, Carlson said he was praying for America and “I hope that people who have audiences will be responsible, will remember that, like, life is short, you’re going to have to give an account.”

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In rare Hebrew interview, Netanyahu says campaign ‘ahead of schedule’ and that IDF can strike Fordo without US if needed; also states offensive will aid hostages’ return as ‘Hamas relies on Iran’

Posted on June 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
PM: Israel will ‘hit all nuclear facilities,’ has destroyed half of Iran’s launchers
Nava Freiberg
June 20, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Thursday evening that Israel is “ahead of schedule” in its military campaign against Iran, exceeding prior expectations and poised for further success. In a rare Hebrew-language interview with the Kan public broadcaster, Netanyahu said Israel has destroyed at least half of Iran’s missile launchers, eliminated key military leaders, is targeting paramilitary forces and will hit all of Iran’s nuclear sites — including the heavily fortified Fordo nuclear facility. “We are ahead of the schedule we set, both in terms of timing and results,” the premier said, nearly a week after Israel launched what it says is a preemptive campaign to neutralize an existential nuclear threat from Iran. READ MORE

JPOST Seth Frantzman: Iran exploits Israel’s urban defense challenges as it seeks to terrorize civilians Iran’s early morning missile fire on Israel on June 19 brought destruction to several areas. The strike on Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba was a blow to Israel’s medical facilities. Another missile struck in Ramat Gan in a busy business area. Because most businesses are closed, the strike did not cause loss of life or the kind of impact it might have had if it were a normal day. However, the attacks on June 19 are clearly unique in the seven-day war. The Ramat Gan strike is yet another example of how bad things can get here. We have air defenses, but they can’t stop every attack.

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The Texas senator’s appearance on Carlson’s podcast went from civil to contentious as the two sparred over Israel, Iran, AIPAC

Posted on June 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
The key moments from the testy Tucker Carlson-Ted Cruz showdown
Emily Jacobs
June 18, 2025

Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) interview on Tucker Carlson’s podcast published on Wednesday devolved into a shouting match at times between the two GOP heavyweights, with insults and charges of ignorance and antisemitism dominating the two-hour conversation between one of the Republican Party’s biggest pro-Israel champions and one of the most vocal critics of the U.S.-Israel relationship. The interview was relatively civil for the first hour, but began to devolve when Carlson and Cruz started debating the benefits of the U.S. relationship with Israel and the merits of Israel and the United States allegedly spying on one another. READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Tucker Carlson splits from Trump, advocates ‘dropping Israel’ Talk show host Tucker Carlson broke with President Donald Trump on Iran on Friday, writing in a scathing commentary in his daily newsletter that the United States should “drop Israel” and “let them fight their own wars.”

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NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: Why would anyone besides an antisemite not be done with Mamdani?

Posted on June 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

MISHPACHA
The Specter of a Mamdani Mayoralty
Yitzchok Landa
June 17, 2025

What started as an outlandish nightmare scenario for Jewish New Yorkers is becoming frighteningly plausible: Democratic state assemblyman and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is surging in polls, closing the gap with presumed front-runner Andrew Cuomo. This week’s Public Policy Polling survey of 573 likely voters even shows Mamdani taking a slim lead of 35% to Cuomo’s 31%. It’s a safe bet that none of Mamdani’s growing support is coming from the Orthodox Jewish community. “Zohran Mamdani is running the most deceptive, divisive, and anti-Semitic campaign in the history of New York City,” says Queens state assemblyman Sam Berger. Born and raised as a Muslim in Kampala, Uganda, Zohran Kwame Mamdani moved to New York at age seven with his parents, extremist Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair. They were expelled from Uganda by dictator Idi Amin over their Indian heritage. READ MORE

FEDERALIST If NYC Elects A Far-Left Socialist, Blame Ranked-Choice Voting New York City could sleepwalk its way into electing a socialist mayor, thanks to ranked-choice voting.

CANARY MISSION EXPOSED: NYC Mayor Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Dangerous Agenda From embracing pro-Hamas rhetoric to pushing anti-American, anti-police policies, his agenda fuels antisemitic hate and endangers New York communities. NYC deserves better leadership.

NEW YORK POST NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani slapped down by Holocaust Museum for trying to ‘sanitize’ anti-Israel rally cry Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani seemed to cry and talked about having faced discrimination himself — but refused to condemn the anti-Israel “globalize the intifada” rallying call Tuesday.

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In a world of diplomatic doublespeak, hypocrisy, and strategic ambiguity, Trump and Netanyahu simply said what they meant

Posted on June 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

THE FREE PRESS
The Ultimate Deception: How Trump and Bibi Outfoxed Iran
Michael Doran
June 13, 2025

They died in their own beds. Hossein Salami and Ali Shamkhani—Iran’s most senior military officers and the stewards of Iran’s nuclear weapons program—had spent years threatening Israel with destruction. They issued taunts, organized terrorist attacks, and orchestrated, since October 7, the encirclement of the Jewish state in a ring of fire of their terror proxies. And they knew—without the slightest illusion—that Israel had the capability and resolve to kill them. This cohort saw the Israeli air force bury Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah in his bunker, hundreds of meters beneath the streets of Beirut. They saw Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh vaporized in a presidential guesthouse—in Tehran, no less. Yet on Thursday night, they came home as usual and went to sleep—unguarded, unworried, carefree. Like insurance salesmen and bank tellers following their daily routines, it never occurred to them that they might not wake in the morning. But they didn’t. READ MORE

FREE PRESS WATCH: The Ultimate Deception: How Trump and Bibi Outfoxed Iran Bari Weiss and Michael Doran break down the success of Israel’s surprise attack, Iran’s failure, and what comes next.

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To Jews still on the fence, you don’t have to agree with every Israeli policy, but know this: When the knives come out, it’s not policy they hate. It’s you.

Posted on June 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Israel should make every Jew incredibly proud right now.
Joshua Hoffman
June 18, 2025

Every Jew should be incredibly proud of Israel right now. Not just for its innovations, its culture, its defense establishment, or its Nobel Prizes, but for its courage. For standing alone, again. For doing what every Jewish heart, no matter how secular or skeptical, has quietly hoped it would do: Defend us when no one else will. In making the first move to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, Israel has done what the so-called “international community” refused to do…Some Jews in the Diaspora have the luxury of pretending they don’t need Israel. They’ve convinced themselves that their safety rests in “progressive” or “universal” values. But when the synagogue windows shatter and supposed allies keep their mouths shut as Jews are indiscriminately targeted, they are forced to remember, painfully, why Israel exists. READ MORE

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Medoff: “There is a common thread to all these attacks, whether the target is Jews in general, Jewish bankers, Jewish publishers or the Jewish state — no matter who happens to be Israel’s prime minister at any given time”

Posted on June 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
Are Jews Dragging America into a War?
Rafael Medoff
June 17, 2025

In strikingly similar language, prominent radical voices in Congress have been claiming that Israel is trying to “drag” the United States into war with Iran. “The U.S. must make it clear that we will not be dragged into another Netanyahu war,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) declared. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) warned: “We should not allow ourselves to be dragged into yet another conflict, against our will.” Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said, “We cannot let [Israel’s prime minister] drag our country into a war with Iran.” And their fellow-“Squad” member Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) asserted: “We cannot allow a war criminal to drag American troops and resources into another endless war.” The language used by these leaders of the far left is, ironically, reminiscent of what some of the most notorious figures on the far right were saying in the late 1930s and early 1940s. READ MORE

NATIONAL REVIEW The Horseshoe Coalition Against Israel on Iran With Donald Trump now loudly backing Israel’s war on the Iranian nuclear program and issuing increasingly hawkish warnings against the mullahs, there has been a lot of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending from the usual quarters — and these days, those usual quarters are a horseshoe-shaped alliance of doves and antisemites on the “restrainer” right and the progressive left. At times, it can be hard to tell their rhetoric apart. They form a uniparty of opposition to resisting America’s sworn enemies.

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“Lebanon’s domestic mood is also restraining Hezbollah. Most Lebanese — at least 70 percent — don’t trust the group and have raised post-war calls for its disarmament”

Posted on June 16, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FDD
Hezbollah’s Role in the Israel-Iran War Is to Await Iran’s Orders
David Daoud
June 19, 2025

Hezbollah was supposed to be Tehran’s insurance policy if Israel contemplated attacking Iran — the group’s massive arsenal either deterring the Israelis or, failing that, acting as the Islamic Republic’s first line of response. But so far, even after the intense bombardment of Iranian targets as part of Operation Rising Lion, Iran’s star proxy is only offering rhetorical solidarity, its Secretary-General Naim Qassem’s official statement indicating Hezbollah is awaiting orders rather than rushing to join the fight. The Israelis inflicted a significant and unprecedented defeat upon the group during their recent war. They have eliminated most of Hezbollah’s top military and political leadership and a significant percentage of its missile stocks — though estimates vary on exact figures. The Israelis have barely let up since, targeting the group’s remaining assets and critical personnel almost daily. Hezbollah is therefore in no state to fight Israel, and renewed war would likely allow the Israels to further degrade the group. READ MORE

FDD As Israel and Iran Exchange Strikes, Qatar Wants Closer Ties With Tehran Qatar’s emir and Iran’s president are becoming friendlier amidst the war between Israel and Iran. On June 18, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received a letter from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian “pertaining to bilateral ties and the means to enhance them…The exchange between Al Thani and Pezeshkian demonstrates Qatar’s flourishing relationship with the Islamic Republic. While Doha persuaded Washington that it deserved recognition as a Major Non-NATO ally, it has been pursuing a working, if not warm, relationship with the regime in Iran.

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