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Has the nation of Israel given the Iranian people an opening to rise up against their brutal dictators? Is this the beginning of the end of the terror-sponsoring, mass murdering Islamic regime in Iran?

Such questions are speculation, and as such have no definite answer, but while much of the terrorist apparatus is still in place in Iran, the country just lost numerous top military leaders and a good deal of its major weapons and nuclear facilities. Depending on how this conflict goes in the next week or two, this might be a desperate opportunity for domestic rebellion as the Iranian regime is also pummeled from overseas.

It is an unfortunate fact that when the people of Iran periodically try to rise up against the Islamic dictators there, they garner little to no support from any other governments or powerful international entities, including the USA. When tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets in protest of the vicious sharia “morality” police in 2022, where was the outpouring of international aid and support that was provided for the jihad-loving Gazans ever since Oct. 2023? It wasn’t provided for Iranians. Countless protestors were arrested, raped, tortured, and killed, as Americans and other Westerners looked the other way.

That is why Iranian dissidents have been the most loyal in praising Israel and condemning Hamas and the other terror proxies of the Iranian regime. They have experienced the horror of living under a genocidal Islamic dictatorship, and they not only want to break free themselves, they want Israel to be triumphant. Perhaps Israel is returning the favor.

Houman David Hemmati, a doctor who fled Iran for the USA when he was young, certainly sees this Israeli strike as a sign of hope for his fellow Iranians that Persia in its former greatness might rise again, that the oppressed people will see the demise of their oppressors. He posted on X:

I fled Iran as a child, carrying in my heart the memories of women beaten in the streets for daring to wear makeup, of girls whose only crime was letting a strand of hair escape their scarves, and of neighbors dragged off to prison for refusing to bend to the regime’s cruelty. Tonight, as I watched the news of Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, I felt a surge of hope: not for the destruction itself, but for the first glimmer of freedom for the people trapped under a government that gouges out women’s eyes for their clothes and tortures dissidents for daring to think differently. This regime has forced every schoolchild to chant “Death to America,” has backed the October 7 terror on Israel, has sent suicide drones against our troops at sea, and has spent decades sharpening its tools of oppression.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/13/ballymena-may-be-a-taste-of-things-to-come/

Another community in flames. Masonry and Molotov cocktails thrown at police. A leisure centre, believed to be housing migrants, set ablaze by a bigoted mob. Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before.

This week, Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland became the latest town within these troubled isles to be ripped apart by fear, loathing and rioting – sparked by an alleged crime committed by migrants.

On Monday, two 14-year-old Romanian Roma boys were charged with attempted oral rape of a teenage girl. The BBC could only bring itself to mention the boys’ background obliquely, noting they ‘confirmed their names and ages through a Romanian interpreter’.

This horrific crime appears to have snapped something, in another working-class community experiencing a heady mix of deindustrialisation, strained resources, crime, mass immigration and fraying social bonds.

A peaceful protest was hijacked by thugs. The town has burned for four nights now. Unrest is breaking out across Northern Ireland, too. The tone has been not just anti-migration, but also violently anti-migrant.

On Monday, rioters attacked the homes of the alleged perpetrators, but also those of other, entirely innocent Roma, who now reportedly make up half of Ballymena’s Clonavon Terrace. The flames soon spread further.

In a nearby village, the home of a Filipino man, totally unconnected to the alleged rape, was firebombed. Heartbreakingly, many of Ballymena’s Filipinos have since fled their homes, leaving signs on their doors saying ‘Filipino lives here’ to ward off the mob.

On Wednesday, rioters started fires and smashed in the windows of a leisure centre in Larne. Word had got out on social media that some of the migrants who moved out of Ballymena were sheltering there.

While this loyalist community has its own particularities – a history of sectarianism and demographic angst. These riots are clearly – chillingly – of a piece with what we’ve witnessed across the UK and Ireland in recent years.

We appear to be caught in an infernal loop. In Knowsley, Merseyside in February 2023, a young girl being propositioned by an asylum seeker sparked a riot outside a migrant hotel. In November that year, trams and cars were set on fire in Dublin after an Algerian national stabbed a woman and three kids outside a school.

In each case, an information vacuum left by the media and officialdom was filled with misinfo and rumour. No more so than after Axel Rudakubana’s barbaric murder of three girls in Southport, when far-right influencers pushed BS online about him being a small-boats migrant, fuelling attacks on mosques and hotels.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/do-the-saudis-actually-oppose-israeli-strikes-on-iran-follow-the-oil/

Saudi Arabia officially put out a statement harshly critical of Israel’s air strikes on Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.

But what do the Saudis actually think? Follow the oil.

Israel’s sudden attack on Iran has threatened to disrupt oil supplies in the Middle East, placing the Opec+ cartel’s recent decision to increase crude production into the spotlight.

The Saudi Arabia-led producer group has surprised the oil market this year by fast-tracking the return of idled production even as crude prices fell. It has prompted speculation that the cartel was responding to White House pressure to boost output ahead of a confrontation with Iran.

If the Saudis really wanted to force a rapid end to the war, they would be doing what they have done in the past, which is cut production. And had they wanted to really pressure Trump ahead of a possible confrontation with Iran, they would have refused to boost production.

Oil production is still their best weapon. Boosting oil production provides a cushion ahead of a showdown with Iran.

That is not to say that the Saudis are America’s friend, let alone Israel’s friend, but they are happy enough with a scenario in which Iran’s capabilities get rolled back, without having to get directly involved or take any risks.

Forget what they say, watch what they pump.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21686/persecution-of-christians-april

In the opening days of April, Muslim Fulani terrorists slaughtered more than 60 Christians in Plateau State, in what Plateau Gov. Caleb Mutfwang termed an ongoing “genocide.” According to a local source, “More than 1,000 Christians were displaced during the attacks, and 383 three houses were destroyed by these bandits.” — Morning Star News, April 8, 2025, Nigeria.

“Eyewitnesses said the attack lasted more than an hour, leaving 103 households destroyed and the entire village displaced. Frustration mounted as residents reported a delayed military response and accused security forces of bias, disarming local Christian youth but not Fulani attackers.” — Morning Star News, April 14, 2025, Nigeria.

On Good Friday, Apr. 18, a Muslim judge sentenced a Christian to death for “blasphemy”…. Among these critics was the Rev. Ghazala Shafique, a Karachi-based rights activist: “The court has convicted a Christian for allegedly carrying out the alleged blasphemous act, but what about those people who burned our churches and homes and are now roaming freely on bail? Why didn’t the police and prosecution investigate those cases with the same zeal that they have shown in Masih’s case?” — Morning Star News, April 22, 2025, Pakistan.

On Apr. 30, a Muslim judge sentenced Sabry Kamel, a 79-year-old Christian man to life in prison on the charge that he molested a five-year-old Muslim child at the school where the accused volunteered. He did so, critics allege, on very little evidence and merely to placate an angry Muslim mob that was growing outside the court house and calling for the instant execution of the elderly Christian…. Essam Mehanna, the complainant’s lawyer… stated: ‘The case was flimsy and would have collapsed were it not for the mob shouting outside the courthouse.’ Several legal experts and independent attorneys—both Copts and Muslims—who reviewed the case files expressed shock at what they described as a wholly unjustified ruling.” — Coptic Solidarity, April 30, 2025, Egypt.

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of April 2025.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21682/dark-clouds-over-south-africa

The ANC’s National Democratic Revolution strategy compels dominating the Judiciary; it reads: “judicial independence to be undermined, in part by vesting most appointments to the bench in an ANC-dominated Judicial Service Commission.” It was therefore not unexpected that the Constitutional Court might rule in support of the slogan, “Kill the Boer”.

Sadly, what Ramaphosa actually intends, despite his grand terminology, is that there will be a redistribution of wealth and asset ownership in the form of either expropriation without compensation and/or a mandatory transfer of equity in businesses held by minorities to the black majority. NDR policies allow for this, and in fact the ANC Constitution mandates such actions….

A partial solution might be, as suggested by the commentator Rob Hersov, is that the US and other Western nations should bypass the ANC and instead support the Democratic Alliance (DA) — the official opposition at one stage (now part of the coalition) and the 2nd largest political party.

The DA is a centralist-conservative entity which runs the Western Cape Province – a state thriving in every way. Perhaps when it becomes known how successful the Western Cape under the DA has become, particularly with US and other outside investment, then demand for structural changes elsewhere might arise. In the interim, ominous dark clouds hang over the future of beautiful South Africa and its vibrant and amazing people.

There was a moment with a glimmer of hope for beleaguered South Africa. That moment appeared on May 21, 2025, with a meeting at the White House between US President Donald J. Trump and his South African counterpart, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. The purpose of the meeting was to ‘reset’ the relationship between them after violently racist and anti-Western policies adopted by the largest political party in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC), which heads a coalition government, were criticised by President Trump.

While Ramaphosa focused on trade at the meeting –- probably believing he could get away with neo-Marxist policies by tempting Trump with trade opportunities, such as availability of critical minerals — Trump instead brooded on the deep injustice against the country’s white minorities. Many onlookers believe they deserving what they are getting as a result of sometimes hundreds of years of discrimination against the Blacks, or “Coloureds,” by South Africa’s White European settlers.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/has-the-u-k-just-signed-its-own-death-warrant/

A court ruling on Monday in Britain, if it is allowed to stand, could do nothing less than change the course of that country’s history, and that of the entire world. The U.K. has taken a decisive step away from the principles of free speech that it played a dominant role in formulating and giving to the world. There is serious cause for doubt now about whether the Sceptered Isle will even survive as a free society.

Officially, Hamit Coskun was found guilty of a “religiously aggravated public order offence.” His specific crime, however, was that he publicly burned a copy of the Qur’an, the Islamic holy book. It is not a crime to burn the Qur’an or any book in Britain; Coskun wasn’t convicted of burning the book as such, but of disturbing the public order by doing so. That means that he poses a problem for British law not insofar as he burned a book, which is permitted, but because in doing so he opened the door to public disturbances, which is not permitted. In other words, Hamit Coskun was convicted of a crime because Muslims might have rioted or committed jihad terror attacks over his actions.

In convicting Coskun, the U.K. has thus enshrined the heckler’s veto as part of British law. If he had burned a Bible, no one would have cared, and there would have been no possible disturbance to the “public order.” The threat of jihad violence is now guiding the course of British law and infringing upon the freedom of speech. The British government has now compounded the prospect of some Muslims reacting violently to the burning of the Qur’an by making it clear that whether they do or not, the culprit will have to face the wrath of the British state.

For his part, Coskun charged, quite correctly, that his conviction would “deter others from exercising their democratic rights to peaceful protest and freedom of expression.” Reading that, British authorities likely nodded their heads in agreement, as that’s exactly what the conviction is designed to do. Nevertheless, Coskun, who has made it clear that he intended his burning of the Qur’an to call attention to the crimes done in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings, vowed that he would “continue to campaign against the threat of Islam.”