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Tyrannical Regimes and the Westerners Who Love Them by Seth Mandel

Posted By on June 24th, 2025

https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/tyrannical-regimes-and-the-westerners-who-love-them/

Iranian actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi has issued a heartfelt plea to the Western protest class that I fear will fall on deaf ears. Just as the Palestinians who have made it out of Gaza and can speak freely tried, in vain, to convince the anti-Zionist demonstrators to not lionize Hamas, so are Iranian democracy activists learning about the Western fascination and identification with tyrannical regimes.

The Iranian regime “unleashes its fury, first and foremost, on its own people,” Boniadi told PBS’s Newshour. The regime has shut down Internet access across Iran and has been arresting dissidents to ensure that those who want freedom cannot organize against the government while it is weak. Therefore “we have to separate the Islamic Republic from Iran because most of the Iranian people believe [the regime] is an occupying force.”

She closed with a plea: “I urge Westerners, please, if you want to stand for Iran and the Iranian people and their sovereignty, please don’t conflate that with the Islamic Republic’s sovereignty, they are two different things. Do not raise the Islamic Republic’s flag in your rallies. That is a slap in the face to every dissident, every Iranian who has risked everything for freedom.”

Yet of course this weekend there were those very Islamic Republic of Iran flags on the streets of New York City. The flags of Hamas and Hezbollah—which are also, by the way, Islamic Republic of Iran flags, technically—were replaced by the logo of a tyrannical regime in Tehran. In London, where Boniadi grew up, Islamic Republic flags intermingled with large signs displaying the face of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the words “choose the right side of history.”

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What This Muslim Doctor Did to a Jewish Congressman Wasn’t Quite in Line with the Hippocratic Oath Robert Spencer

Posted By on June 24th, 2025

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/06/23/what-this-muslim-doctor-did-to-a-jewish-congressman-wasnt-quite-in-line-with-the-hippocratic-oath-n4941089

The classic version of the Hippocratic Oath has doctors swearing: “I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.” Dr. Feras Hamdan, “a family medicine physician in Cleveland” who is “affiliated with medical facilities such as Cleveland Clinic and Ashtabula County Medical Center,” didn’t exactly comport himself in a godly manner in an incident involving Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), but of course, that depends on which God one is looking to serve. 

CNN reported Friday that Hamdan was “arrested after Miller filed and signed a complaint with police for aggravated menacing, as well as requested a protective order against him, according to police in Rocky River, a suburb of Cleveland.” Miller, who is Jewish, called 911 on Thursday morning and said: “I’m on the freeway. I have somebody who has cut me off, who is flipping me off, who is showing me a Palestinian flag, and is yelling to kill me.” This was Rep. Miller’s introduction to the respected Dr. Hamdan, who also screamed, “Death to Israel.”

Miller added: “I’m a little shaken at the moment because I got death threats.” He recounted: “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 later said: “I have a weapon on me. I’m glad I didn’t use it. But, I mean, what is going to happen? This guy just said he is going to kill me. And said he is going to kill my daughter who is almost two years old. And he cut me off and clearly was trying to hurt me.” 

“What is going to happen?” is a good question. Feras Hamdan, MD’s practice is now listed on Google as “permanently closed,” but there is no public indication yet that Hamdan’s license to practice medicine has been suspended, or even if there is any inquiry underway that could lead to such a suspension.

Hamdan’s case is similar to that of another Muslim physician in Ohio, Lara Kollab, a former doctor of osteopathic medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. Kollab said on X, which was Twitter back then, that she would “purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the wrong meds.” In another tweet, she wrote: “Studying for my med micro final, came across this. Clearly, I pay attention in class and write very useful notes.” Accompanying that tweet was a handwritten note that read: “People who support Israel should have their immune cells killed so they can see how it feels to not be able to defend yourself from foreign invaders.”

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60 Missing Kids Found in Florida During Largest Rescue in U.S. History Sarah Anderson

Posted By on June 24th, 2025

https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/06/23/operation-dragon-eye-60-missing-kids-found-in-florida-during-largest-rescue-in-us-history-n4941103

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and the United States Marshal for the Central District of Florida William Berger announced at a press conference on Monday that a two-week operation known as Operation Dragon Eye — one of, if not the largest child rescue mission in United States history — was a success. 

The two-week operation saved the lives of at least 60 children and saw eight adults arrested on charges including human trafficking, child endangerment, drug possession, and drug trafficking. Operation Dragon Eye involved over 20 agencies and 100 people. 

Most of the children, who were ages nine to seventeen years old, were found in the Tampa Bay area. Their stories are heartbreaking. 

Berger said the children have been “debriefed and provided with physical and psychological care,” but some of them required additional assistance: maternal care. According to Natasha Nascimento of Redefining Refuge, many of the young girls were pregnant. She says the operation didn’t just recover children; it recovered generations. 

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Trump Announces ‘Complete and Total’ Ceasefire in Iran-Israel War So what happens to the Mullahs?

Posted By on June 24th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/trump-announces-complete-and-total-ceasefire-in-iran-israel-war/

After delivering devastation to Iran’s nuclear program, President Trump announced on Monday that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire.”

This leaves us at FrontPageMag wondering: Does this mean that the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism can get back to its business of terror? Will the terror regime cease and desist from its chants of “Death to America” — and renounce its ideology of our nation being the “Big Satan” and Israel the “Little Satan”? And what happens when Iran goes back to its terror business?

Finally, is the world simply going to stand by and observe the Iranian tyrants continue torturing their own people?

Islamic law stipulates that Muslim forces do not ask for a truce unless they are losing and need time to gather strength so that they can fight again more effectively later. A ceasefire with Muslim terrorists just allows them to regroup for the next war. What guarantee is there or could there possibly be that the Islamic Republic will not continue pursuing its goals of destroying Israel and America as well?

And how does all of this fit with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi warning the West, on Monday morning, against throwing the Iranian regime a lifeline, stressing that doing so would cause more bloodshed and chaos?

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Regime change in Iran can only come from within Iranians’ freedom cannot be delivered by foreign jets. Tim Black

Posted By on June 24th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/23/regime-change-in-iran-can-only-come-from-within/

The spectre of ‘regime change’ in Tehran seems to be haunting the Israel-Iran war. Even more so after US president Donald Trump followed up America’s bombing raid on three Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday with the following social-media post: ‘It’s not politically correct to use the term, “regime change”, but if the current Iranian regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a regime change?’

Trump’s post itself is ambiguous – it’s not clear who or what exactly might change the regime or when it might happen. Today, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to clear up any misunderstanding, claiming Trump was simply asking, ‘why shouldn’t the Iranian people rise up against this brutal terrorist regime?’. Moreover, Trump’s cabinet, including some of its more hawkish members, has been keen to emphasise that regime change in Iran is not the US’s objective. Defence secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday’s ‘precision operation’ specifically targeted Iran’s nuclear programme and ‘was not and has not been about regime change’. Vice-president JD Vance and secretary of state Marco Rubio have also been at pains to insist that the US is not looking to enter a full-scale war with Iran.

But if we’re to take Trump’s vague post to mean what his constantly hyperventilating critics say it does – that the US is contemplating carrying out regime change itself – then that would indeed be a dangerous, reckless move. The US’s raid was, itself, not without huge risk. For all the talk of ‘precision’ strikes, they could well embroil America in this war. While Israel is right to fight back against Iran’s very real aggression, sucking in the global hegemon risks broadening the conflict. Even so, the US pursuing regime change would be a truly spectacular folly. Which we can only hope isn’t being countenanced.

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It’s Time the Right Rejects Our Worst Online Influencers Guess who? Mark Tapson

Posted By on June 24th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/its-time-the-right-rejects-our-worst-online-influencers/

With the well-deserved collapse of public trust in the mainstream media, there has been a concomitant rise in popularity of online influencers as sources of news and opinion. The upside is, there is a lot to be said for giving a massive platform to independent journalists such as Andy Ngo and Michael Shellenberger. But there has also been an alarmingly high number of social media influencers on the Right amassing millions of followers but delivering everything from misinformation to conspiracy theories to propaganda.

The two most notable examples are, of course, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. When Carlson was fired from Fox News two years ago, conservatives including me were giddy that his independent platform would bring hope and change for a fearless conservative voice, and help bury the obsolete propagandists of the mainstream media. Instead, he has become the biggest disappointment for conservatives since Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. Carlson, with over 16 million X followers, now shills for every Western-hating Islamic power from Qatar to Iran, and supportively platforms subversives like former kickboxer Andrew Tate and “historian” Darryl Cooper (pictured above), who asserts that Hitler was the peacemaker and Churchill the villain of World War II.

Although a few like myself saw Candace Owens from the beginning as nothing more than a glib, low IQ grifter, she plummeted from Turning Point USA and Prager U stardom into a raging antisemite with a conspiracy nut’s shaky grasp of history, so much so that the Horowitz Freedom Center felt compelled to post a statement denouncing her and regretting having boosted her career early on. She has nearly seven million followers on X.

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Iran’s Agents in America And the dirty story of who enabled them. Daniel Greenfield

Posted By on June 24th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/irans-agents-in-america/

Four years after he was charged by the Justice Department with acting as an “agent of the Iranian government”, Kaveh Afrasiabi appeared on China’s state propaganda CGTN, quoting Iran’s Supreme Leader and warning of “irreparable damage” if Trump were to act against Iran.

“Iran has a lot of naval assets that can come into play,” the Iranian political science professor warned viewers of China’s propaganda machine. Previously Afrasiabi, whom the DOJ complaint stated had “pitched himself to Congress, journalists, and the American public as a neutral and objective expert on Iran”, had appeared on CGTN, to claim that Israel was engaged in an “unprovoked war” and again attacked President Trump for standing up to Tehran.

The strange thing however was not that Afrasiabi, who had been described as having acted as “a secret employee of the Government of Iran and the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations who was being paid to spread their propaganda”, was spreading pro-Iranian propaganda to Iran’s Chinese Communist allies, but that he was still here.

The 2021 indictment stated that, “our arrest of Kaveh Afrasiabi makes it clear that the United States is not going to allow undeclared agents of Iran to operate in our country unchecked.” That went by the wayside two years later when President Joe Biden signed a pardon for Afrasiabi allegedly as part of the administration’s serial hostage deals with enemy nations.

Allowing undeclared agents of Iran to operate in America was now officially Biden’s policy.

Unlike conventional prisoner exchanges, Afrasiabi and two others were not actually expected to leave America. The pardon however was conditioned on Afrasiabi not breaking any further laws and not deriving any financial benefit from any publication about his “situation”.

Had Afrasiabi actually changed?

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The Democratic Party Needs A Wellness Check

Posted By on June 24th, 2025

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/06/24/the-democratic-party-needs-a-wellness-check/

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, an ideal representative for the lunatic constituency, said last week that Donald Trump supporters are mentally ill. Has she looked at the party she is willingly a member of? Or even herself? No, because if she did, she’d realize that it’s her side that is not well.

There are a number of patients who need to be seen, certainly millions, but first, we’ll check in with James Carville. While he’s no longer the Democratic Party’s hottest shot, and doesn’t have the influence he once had as Bill Clinton’s main hack, he’s still emblematic of the left’s descent into madness. Consider his most recent tirade, in which he comes off as deranged.

Carville has also claimed in just this year that Trump hates his voters and wants them to suffer; has said that companies that are “sucking up” to Trump remind him of Nazi collaborators; and predicted in February that the Trump administration would collapse in 30 days.

What we are talking about is more than the ravings of a fading party star (who, to his credit, has called out his party for its maniacal commitment to identity politics), though. Science, that field of study which virtue-signaling Democrats (we repeat ourselves) live – and love – to tell everyone they believe in, clearly indicates the left has mental defects. The data from a 60,000-participant survey shows that conservatives are far better off emotionally than their counterparts on the left.

Nine in 10 conservatives self-report their mental health to be excellent (51%) or very good (39%). Those who consider themselves liberals are struggling, with only 20% saying their mental health is excellent and 26% believing it is very good.

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More than 100 women attending music festivals across France stabbed with syringes and injected with unknown substances By Olivia Murray

Posted By on June 23rd, 2025

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/more_than_100_women_attending_music_festivals_across_france_stabbed_with_syringes_and_injected_with_unknown_substances.html

We don’t have to live like this:

At least 145 women across France were targeted in syringe attacks at the Festival of Music 2025 (Fête de la Musique), which offers free concerts in cities across the country.

French authorities have not yet indicated what, if any substances, were involved in these specific attacks.

Before I even knew what kind of individuals perpetrated these needle attacks, I already knew—we probably all do—and it wasn’t the few white Frenchmen left but…Muslim migrants. While most of the creeps are still on the lam, a Bangladeshi suspect has been arrested as well as another man who shouted at his victim in Arabic, claiming to be a doctor.

They kept telling us that the waves of third world migrants they were bringing into the West would be tomorrow’s “doctors” and “engineers” so…well-played.

Some of the cities where needle attacks occurred at the highest rates were Chambéry, Metz, Paris, Montpellier, and Grenoble—and, since many of the women did not experience cognitive issues after being injected, the date-rape drug (GHB), which is typically used, was ruled out. What was in those needles? Semen? HIV?

But the risk of being stabbed with a syringe and injected with an unknown material wasn’t the only violence brought by the migrants during the concerts: there were stabbings, “battles with police,” sexual assault, gang activity, and around 50 cars were lit on fire:

And, here’s a man kicking a young woman on the ground in the head:

While he and his buddies (who fail to intervene) may have French citizenship, they’re certainly not French.

Like I said, we don’t have to live like this—but leftist “progressives” are condemning us to this future—they truly are the biggest blight to ever afflict humanity.

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The ‘Forever War’ we should really be worried about Iran’s ceaseless and racist war on the Jewish State is the true cause of the mayhem in the Middle East. Brendan O’Neill

Posted By on June 23rd, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/23/the-forever-war-we-should-really-be-worried-about/

Two big things happened on Sunday. First, America’s airforce pummelled nuclear sites in Iran. Using B-2 stealth bombers, they spirited bombs weighing 30,000lbs into Iranian airspace and unloaded them over Iran’s three most important uranium-enrichment facilities. The second event was less explosive. It didn’t bother the front pages of the papers nearly as much as America’s strike did. But to my mind it was just as important, certainly for anyone who yearns for a true understanding of what is happening in the Middle East. It was the IDF’s announcement that it had recovered the body of Ofra Kedar from Gaza.

Ofra Kedar was one of the oldest victims of the Hamas-led pogrom of 7 October 2023. She was 70 years old. She was taking her usual morning walk in Kibbutz Be’eri when she happened upon men from the 6,000-strong army of Islamo-fascists that invaded Israel that day. In the moment they drew their guns, ready to slay in cold blood this elderly Jew, Ofra’s daughter-in-law phoned her. She later recounted Ofra’s last words. ‘Why are you shooting at me? What did I do?’, she pleaded with her killers. The call ended. Ofra’s body was dragged to Gaza to be used as a bargaining chip by Hamas in its sick game of torment with the Jewish State.