Sanhedrin to America: The Iran deal is a fantasy, and it will cost you everything

A regime that hanged four of its own citizens every day throughout 2025 does not, by any rational calculation, transform into a reliable partner because American negotiators flew to Geneva.
There was no regime change in Iran, and Donald Trump knows it

Trump would have us believe the people running Iran today are a different, new regime, and that the architects of the January massacres are gone, replaced by new, more reasonable people.
Backlash from all sides mounts against Trump’s secret Iran deal

A ceasefire between the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran was supposed to end months of war. Instead, the secrecy surrounding its terms triggered a rare backlash from Republicans, Democrats, Jewish organizations, and even members of PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Rabbi Tovia Singer: The war with Iran is Ezekiel’s “War of Gog,” unfolding in real time

Rabbi Singer delivered an urgent message on a podcast last week: the war now underway between Israel and Iran is not a future event awaiting fulfillment. It is the war described in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39, and it is happening as Israelis read these very words.
Sanhedrin rules: Iranian peace deal recreates Haman’s pact and will end in Gog and Magog war or complete redemption

The court warned that continuing to honor a deal that endangers Israel risks forfeiting that divine protection. It predicted the agreement would not help Trump in the midterm elections but would “humiliate and degrade you and the United States.”
Things I know and don’t know about a deal with the Islamic Republic

I do know that the Iran attack on Israel was because the Islamists know Trump is faking it about the “deal” that he’s been saying is close for months.
Iran fires on Israel on the 23rd of Sivan, the Hebrew calendar day when Haman’s decrees get reversed

V’nahafoch hu is not merely a historical account of what happened on a single day in ancient Persia. The Sages understood it as a governing principle of Jewish existence: those who construct the machinery of Jewish annihilation have a persistent tendency to be destroyed by it themselves.
Behind the scenes: who is really controlling Iran?

The real power in Iran has never resided solely in any single office. It has always been distributed across the networks that the Rafsanjani dynasty, more than any other family, helped create and continues to sustain.
Ballistic missiles, broken ceasefires, and Iran’s open hand in the war against Israel

Sunday night, Iran launched ten ballistic missiles at Israel. This was not a strike against Israeli aggression toward Iran. For the first time in this war, Tehran made no attempt to disguise that they were going to war for Hezbollah.
Beaufort, the Tehran Grand Bazaar, and boots on the ground in Lebanon

A twelfth-century Crusader fortress in southern Lebanon teaches a lesson that Washington keeps refusing to learn: ceasefires are not a strategy, and walking away from the battlefield only guarantees the next generation will have to return to it.