Eerie footage shows Basij militias mounted on white pickup trucks and APCs while pointing machine guns as they roam streets. Harrowing new testimonies reveal families targeted in their cars and hospitals overwhelmed by gunshot wounds resembling battlefield trauma. Internet blackout continues.
Unlike in Gaza, in Iran people are genuinely being slaughtered in the streets. Yet only this week did the UN secretary-general find the time to address the massacre, urging Iranian authorities to “exercise maximum restraint.” Compare that to his and his organization’s obsessive fixation on Israel.
Human rights organizations? Glad you asked. They are silent, and confused. There are no Jews on either side of this conflict, so they struggle to determine who has rights, the butchers or the butchered.
"Support for terrorist groups will cease immediately," exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi says in video message. "Iran will act as a friend and a stabilizing force in the region," Pahlavi said. "And it will be a responsible partner in global security."
The earthquake’s magnitude, estimated at 4.2, activated alerts in the Dead Sea and the southern Negev. Home Front Command urged the public to follow safety instructions, with no reports at this stage of casualties or unusual damage.
