Iran votes to whip citizens who spread the Gospel

It raises a question with roots going back 2,500 years to the Persian court of King Darius: what happens when an empire writes a law forbidding people to pray?
Rabbi Tovia Singer: “We’re in the war of Gog and Magog,” and Iran is being dragged in “like Pharaoh”

“Right now, we’re in a war that is identified in Ezekiel 38 and 39 as a war between Persia and Israel… There could be a war going on in Africa, in Nigeria. No one pays attention to that. This is the big one.”
When the West amplifies the wrong voice, Iranians bleed twice

It is painful to watch respected voices in the West presenting Masih Alinejad as if she were a legitimate representative of Iranians. She is not. Millions of Iranians have been saying so, loudly and with growing desperation. They are being ignored.
Why Mahsa Amini’s death matters more than ever this year

Why does Mahsa’s murder still echo so powerfully today? Because the savagery hasn’t stopped; it has only intensified.
Christian persecution in Iran intensifies amid war, according to ministries and UN investigators

Iran has spent the past year at war with Israel and the US, facing sweeping sanctions and a deadly civilian uprising. At the same time, the Islamic Republic has also intensified its campaign against its own Christian minority, a population that poses no military threat.
Iran says it struck US forces at UAE’s Al Minhad Air Base with drones

Iranian state TV reported that Iran’s army attacked the United Arab Emirates’ Al Minhad Air Base with drones early Monday, targeting locations where U.S. forces and helicopters were stationed. The UAE denied that the base had been hit by missiles.
Netanyahu says Iran tried to kill his son while Tehran also threatens Trump’s family

“Here is something quite unbelievable… Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill, to murder one of my sons,” Netanyahu said, without specifying which son was targeted or offering further detail.
Israel’s warning to Trump, and the Mordechai precedent

Israel provided the intelligence that led the US Secret Service to secretly pull President Trump off Air Force One and smuggle him onto a different aircraft as he prepared to leave Turkey last month, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Iran strikes U.S. base in Kuwait despite Trump’s diplomatic pause, as regional attacks multiply

Until now, Iran had largely limited its retaliation to strikes following direct American attacks on Iranian territory. Tuesday’s reported strike came instead just days after President Trump halted a planned large-scale US offensive against Iran to give diplomacy a final opportunity.
Iranian state-linked outlet releases video calling for assassination of Melania Trump, threatens Barron

Tasnim, a Persian-language news agency affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, published a video Monday urging supporters to assassinate First Lady Melania Trump and threatening the president’s 20-year-old son, Barron.