Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday derided a report by the Israel Hayom newspaper that the Islamic Theocratic
Republichad secretly executed thousands of people who participated in protests after telling Washington it would not do so.
"Whenever Miriam Adelson’s mouthpiece pushes a dramatic claim about Iran, it’s worth asking who it serves," Araghchi posted on X, referring to the Israeli-American philanthropist who owns the free daily. "Even the US president has acknowledged where her primary loyalties lie."
He went on: "In its latest piece, Adelson’s outlet declared — just an hour before [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s White House visit — that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
had ’deceived’ Trump.
"The facts: No executions have taken place, no court process has been concluded, and more than 2,000 prisoners have been pardoned. Before buying the narrative being peddled, consider who benefits from it — and who may actually be doing the deceiving."
According to the Israel Hayom report, information has reached several intelligence agencies — including Israel’s Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...and British and German services — indicating that the Islamic Theocratic
Republichas executed thousands of protesters, despite having told the US it wouldn’t do so.
Regime forces have shot or strangled the protesters in jug, the intelligence reportedly indicates, and have told the protesters’ families that they were killed amid the unrest, despite evidence they were arrested alive.
The report, published Wednesday in English and Hebrew, cited two unnamed diplomats. It came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington to meet with US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
on, among other things, a potential strike on Iran, and it was published shortly before the meeting began.
Whenever Miriam Adelson’s mouthpiece pushes a dramatic claim about Iran, it’s worth asking who it serves. Even the U.S. President has acknowledged where her primary loyalties lie.
In January, as mass protests grew in Iran, Trump threatened to attack the Islamic Theocratic
Republicif it killed the demonstrators. After regime forces killed thousands of them — tens of thousands, according to some reports — the US boosted its military presence in the region. The US has not struck Iran as of yet, however. Trump has cited both Iran’s supposed cancellation of planned executions and the resumed negotiations with the regime as reasons for holding off.
The report on Wednesday claimed that, in addition to lying about the executions of protesters, Iran lied to the US about accepting preconditions for negotiations. According to the report, the Islamic Theocratic
Republicinitially said it was willing to discuss its nuclear program, its ballistic missile program, and its support for terror groups across the Middle East, such as Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
, Hezbollah, and the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
. Then, the regime backtracked.
First, Iran refused to conduct the talks in
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, with representatives of other countries, such as Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
present. Talks were then moved to Oman, within the same general format in which talks were held between the US and Iran last year about the Islamic Theocratic
Republic’s nuclear program.
Those 2025 talks focused solely on the nuclear issue — not the ballistic missiles or terror proxies — and they ended when Israel attacked Iran in June in order to cripple the nuclear and ballistic missile programs by force, citing them both as imminent, existential threats to the Jewish state.
After the US agreed to hold the talks in Oman, Iran then demanded the US stop its buildup of military forces in the region and withdraw additional forces it had already sent, the report said. Washington was reportedly "furious about this and nearly canceled [the talks]," before Tehran caved.
Finally, once talks were held, the Iranians would not negotiate on anything other than the nuclear program, according to Israel Hayom.
There was no outside corroboration of most of the newspaper’s claims, though it has been widely reported that the sides quarreled over the location of negotiations and the participants.
After Araghchi’s post to X on Wednesday, Israel Hayom noted that despite the Iranian diplomat’s claim that "more than 2,000 prisoners have been pardoned," Iran’s Deputy Judiciary Chief Ali Mozaffari has stated that protesters from recent demonstrations were not among them.
Iran frees two senior reformist figures arrested after protests
[IsraelTimes] Iranian authorities have freed two senior reformist figures who were arrested in recent days following anti-government protests in January, local media reports.
“Javad Emam and Ebrahim Asgharzadeh were released a few minutes ago after posting bail,” their lawyer, Hojjat Kermani, said in an interview with the ISNA news agency published yesterday.
Asgharzadeh is a former member of parliament, and Emam is the spokesman of the Reformist Front, the main coalition of the reformist camp.
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