Friday, June 12, 2026

06/12 Links Pt1: US-Iran deal to include dismantling of Iranian nuclear program; UNRWA fires 70 staffers over terrorist ties; Pal football chief denied US visa

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: Trump’s civilizational moment
This lethal blindness is not just endangering the West in foreign wars, but is doing so at home in the refusal to face the reality of Islamization.

Britain refuses to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, jail or deport jihadi preachers, ban sharia courts or stop immigration from countries posing an Islamist threat.

In America, although Trump has taken measures against extremism, an Islamist beachhead has been created in New York with its sectarian Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and with sharia enclaves expanding in Texas and elsewhere.

The reason all of this has been allowed to grow is wider and deeper than the promotion of multiculturalism and the intersectional dogma that holds the West is innately bad because it is white. At the core of these secular ideologies is a loss of belief in the biblical norms that underpin Western culture, and the replacement of what is held to be irrational Christian and Jewish mumbo-jumbo by the superior power of the Western mind.

The West has told itself that it is the acme of reason—by which it means that its core principle is the pursuit of individual happiness, prosperity and self-realization.

Accordingly, war is always totally dumb because people get killed; ranking different cultures in any kind of hierarchy is a form of bigotry that is not only evil but proof of imbecility; and everyone in the world is assumed only to want to have a nice life.

Believing that only universal values are moral and rational, such Westerners can’t see the catastrophic results of failing to fight for their own. They refuse to acknowledge that there is no brotherhood of man; there are instead people who believe in civilization, and other people who intend to destroy it.

The paradox is that in making a fetish of reason and self-interest, the West repudiates reason by inventing its own reality.

Meanwhile, the Islamists have grasped all this. They understand that without a religious scaffolding, a society eventually collapses. They have watched the West steadily destroying that religious core and, in the vacuum that’s been created, giving them the opportunity to strike.

This is why Britain, which has led the retreat from Christianity in the West, is ground zero for the Islamist onslaught. Islamization has penetrated throughout Britain’s political and civic architecture, with British leaders absolutely refusing to push back.

Now there’s a rapidly rising sectarian Islamic bloc, aided by the left, increasingly focusing British politics on the jihadi agenda of destroying Israel and the Jews as an essential precursor to conquering the West.

We are currently, and rightly, transfixed by Iran. If America doesn’t neutralize the Islamic revolutionary regime and instead allows it to regenerate, this will be catastrophic for America and the West.

It all depends on one mercurial and imperfect man in the White House. But whether he succeeds or fails, he is leading a free world, much of which no longer understands what it needs to do to survive.
Ruthie Blum: Translating Trump in Tehran
Listening to U.S. President Donald Trump’s June 3 Oval Office press conference, one couldn’t help worrying about how his words sounded in Farsi—not only to the mullahs and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but to the masses who believed that “help was on the way.”

Now it’s true that every statement made by Trump, whether in response to journalists’ questions or as a post on Truth Social, is aimed at multiple audiences at home and abroad. The trouble is that he often makes off-the-cuff remarks that lately have been music to the ears of the powers-that-be in Tehran.

Though he’s said about Iran that “it’s never won a war, but never lost a negotiation,” Trump has been behaving as if the joint American-Israeli military victories against the now-fractured regime were simply a precursor to engaging in dialogue with it.

On one hand, he seems to be aware that the ayatollahs and their henchmen have spent nearly half a century perfecting the art of exploiting Western assumptions about war and peace. On the other, he continues to view talks with regime representatives—mediated by Pakistan, no less—through the transactional lens of a real-estate developer.

The Islamic Republic, in contrast, sees everything through a revolutionary religious prism. The result is a clash of perceptions that’s not beneficial to the United States.

Take Trump’s explanation for Iran’s latest violations of the so-called “ceasefire,” for example. Asked by a reporter about Tehran’s attacks in the Gulf, the president replied, “Some people would say they were slightly provoked,” since the United States had struck first, and hard, the previous night.

This wasn’t merely a false depiction of what’s been going on; it was rightly interpreted by Tehran to provide an explanation, if not an excuse, to Iranian belligerence. You don’t have to be a Mideast expert to figure that out.

Nor do you require a degree in international relations to grasp that when Washington rationalizes Iranian aggression, rather than treating it as an immediate casus belli—in this case, the imperative to resume the unfinished war—Tehran concludes that its actions are paying off.

Ditto in relation to Trump’s saying, “I hear the negotiation itself is going very well, actually. Very well.”
The Last Superpower Test By Abe Greenwald
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If the U.S. wins, we will live in a safer world. Bad actors will be made to understand that American power remains the ultimate block on their ambitions. If the U.S. loses, extremist and predatory regimes will be free to do as they please. They all know that America is the only guarantor of sovereignty for the countries of the free world. No other power can underwrite the stability of the global order.

At this moment, that stability hangs in the balance. If the U.S. reaches a deal with Iran’s leaders that leaves the regime intact and fundamentally unchanged, it will be rightly regarded as an American instrument of surrender. The U.S. will have bombarded the regime from the skies, killed multiple tiers of leadership, destroyed its nuclear program, and degraded its missile stocks only to accept defeat. World leaders will understand this as America’s last, failed attempt to project military power on a large scale. For decades, Donald Trump has insisted that Iran must be stopped. If he decides that the job is too big to finish, no future president will try again.

My hope is that Trump’s seeming eagerness for a deal isn’t the spectacle of desperation that it appears to be. This isn’t unfounded. Although the president has been lured into negotiating with Iran again and again, he has never failed to reject the regime’s dangerous demands. He even did so this morning. It could be that Trump simply hasn’t yet grasped that this regime is incapable of making peace on terms that are acceptable to the U.S. Perhaps this is becoming clearer to him with every scrapped diplomatic “framework.” And maybe he will come to understand that there’s only one path to American victory—and it’s not negotiation.

This war will decide more than the future of Iran or the Middle East. It will define America’s ongoing role in the world that it shaped, and it will either set free or rein in those who wish to tear that world down.
The ups and downs that really matter: Why Israel, the US are not fighting the same war
This striking, grimly satirical political cartoon expresses what is being said in diplomatic circles this week, capturing the strategic vertigo gripping both Jerusalem and Washington. It depicts an elevator labeled “Lobby of Hell.”

The newest Iranian cleric and his partner, the Hezbollah operative, stand hand-in-hand, staring out as an elevator car descends into an abyss watched over by a welcoming devil. On either side of the shaft stand US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, their fingers pressed firmly on the elevator call buttons.

Above Trump, floating in an idealized cloud, is Uncle Sam; above Netanyahu floats Theodor Herzl. Both leaders look grimly determined, convinced their fingers are guided from above by foundational visions of American greatness and a safe, iron-clad Jewish state. Netanyahu, wanting to guarantee the future of the Jewish state, and Trump, who is out of options looking for an agreement and a way out of the quagmire, keep pushing the hold call button.

But look closer at the cartoon, and the unsettling truth reveals itself: we are all staring intently at the elevator buttons, but we have completely lost track of the shaft itself. We are trapped in a dangerous collective delusion, focusing on political theater while completely missing the structural architecture of the war we are supposedly fighting.

The shaft symbolizes that the Iranians are happy to pull us all down to hell with them in a jihad-like suicidal moment. Worse still, it is no longer clear whether Uncle Sam or Theodor Herzl possess the same binding relevance or moral authority in modern America or contemporary Israel that they once did.

We are executing policies based on outdated paradigms, and in doing so, we run the risk of fulfilling the grim punchline of the old medical joke: the operation was a spectacular success, but the patient died on the table.

Uncle Sam was created for the American public and reinforced by political cartoonists who wanted a symbol that represented the strength, authority, and government of the nation itself, rather than just its abstract ideals. The lack of American support for the war with Iran is evident in that the American people are not looking at Uncle Sam in the same way as they did before.




US settles suit over Biden-era Judea and Samaria sanctions policy, vows no action against plaintiffs
A settlement between the Trump administration and plaintiffs who challenged former U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive order authorizing sanctions on certain Israelis and organizations in Judea and Samaria includes a commitment from the U.S. government not to pursue sanctions against the plaintiffs and affirms that Israel and its citizens will be treated as close allies of the United States.

The Lawfare Project announced the settlement on Thursday, nearly two years after it helped fund a lawsuit challenging Executive Order 14115, which Biden signed in February 2024. The order authorized sanctions against individuals accused of undermining peace, security and stability in Judea and Samaria.

The lawsuit, filed in August 2024 by Texans for Israel, the Israel-based nonprofit Regavim and two Israeli residents, argued that the order was being used to target political advocacy and support for Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria rather than acts of violence. The plaintiffs were represented by Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC.

As part of the settlement, the U.S. Department of the Treasury stated that it will take no action against the plaintiffs and affirmed that “Israel is one of the United States’ closest allies, and the United States will treat the country and its people accordingly,” according to the Lawfare Project.

The agreement further states that the United States “categorically rejects any policy that would infringe upon Israel’s sovereignty or target private organizations and Israeli citizens living in” Judea and Samaria, the group said.

U.S. President Donald Trump revoked Executive Order 14115 shortly after taking office in January 2025, ending the sanctions program before the case reached trial.

Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor at George Mason University who advised the plaintiffs’ legal team, told JNS that the settlement highlights a significant policy shift from the Biden administration.

“Under any Republican administration, Israelis are never going to be sanctioned simply for advocating against aid to Hamas or advocating against illegal Palestinian construction, as some of our plaintiffs have done,” said Kontorovich, who advised the legal team.

He added that the settlement “marks a sharp contrast” to actions taken by other governments. While the United States has ended the sanctions program, both Canada and the European Union have imposed sanctions on Regavim.

The settlement includes no monetary compensation, according to Kontorovich.
UNRWA fires 70 staffers after U.S. watchdog probe into alleged terror ties, denies link to findings
A Trump administration official told JNS that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency’s decision to dismiss 70 staff members is linked to an ongoing inspector general investigation into alleged ties between agency personnel and terrorist organizations, including involvement in the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

UNRWA, which serves as the global body’s Palestinian-exclusive aid and social services entity, announced on June 12 that it had terminated 70 employees, saying the action was taken “further to an assessment of the safety and security of UNRWA operations in Gaza.” The agency did not describe the dismissals as disciplinary measures and said they “do not constitute in any way a validation of the claims made against them.”

The agency, long under the microscope for direct links to and cooperation with terror groups, said it has “repeatedly asked the Israeli authorities to provide information and evidence to substantiate allegations against individual UNRWA staff members in Gaza but has received no response to date.”

However, the latest allegations did not come from the Jewish state.

On June 8, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the office of the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development found evidence that more than 100 UNRWA staff members participated in Oct. 7 or are affiliated with the terror group’s military wing.

According to the report, those findings were forwarded to the U.S. State Department, along with a recommendation that 101 current and former UNRWA staff members be suspended or barred from participating in U.S.-funded aid programs for 10 years. The individuals reportedly include teachers, school principals, security staff, medical workers and psychosocial counselors.

“The timing of UNRWA’s decision to terminate dozens of staff appears as a direct response to the USAID Inspector General’s active and ongoing investigation,” a senior U.S. official briefed on the investigation told JNS. “Because of loose vetting procedures in the U.N. system, USAID IG law enforcement officers are also working to prevent Hamas-linked staff from jumping to other aid organizations operating in Gaza.”
UKLFI: Hillel Neuer & Natasha Hausdorff on How UN Rapporteurs are Subverting Human Rights
UN Watch has published a major new report examining the conduct of a number of United Nations Special Rapporteurs and other mandate holders, raising serious questions about their impartiality, accountability, funding, transparency and role in the UN human rights system.

In this interview, Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, and Natasha Hausdorff, UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director, discuss the shocking findings in the report and what they mean for the credibility of the UN's Special Procedures system and the legality of its operation.

The discussion explores serious concerns raised in the report regarding funding arrangements, total disregard of the UN Human Rights Council's Code of Conduct, the influence of Special Rapporteurs on international institutions and media reporting, and proposals for reform.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Why UN Watch says the Special Rapporteur system is broken
04:17 Foreign funding, influence and questions of independence
07:38 The UN Code of Conduct and impartiality concerns
09:16 Why the findings matter beyond individual mandate holders
11:43 Francesca Albanese and the wider credibility debate
15:28 Reforming the system and restoring accountability




UN ‘settler violence’ report based on distorted data
A new United Nations report on “settler violence” in Judea and Samaria portrays its findings as carefully researched, when, in fact, it relies on data built on sand, observers tell JNS.

The report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem is its fifth report since it was established in May 2021 by the U.N. Human Rights Council in the immediate aftermath of Israel’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls.”

Previous reports from the commission have all condemned Israel, accusing the Jewish State of “genocide,” “imposing starvation” and “systematic destruction” of healthcare and education in Gaza. Israel refuses to cooperate with the commission due to its bias. The United States has also criticized it.

In its most recent report, the commission claimed “settler violence” is on the rise and accused the State of Israel of being “primarily responsible.” Israel enables such attacks through “financial and military support,” it said. Israeli courts and law enforcement grant impunity to those purportedly carrying out the violence, it continued.

Largely invented
The main problem with the report is that the so-called “settler violence” is largely invented, say Eugene Kontorovich and Avraham Shalev, authors of a Kohelet Policy Forum report that debunks the U.N. statistics used to assert such a problem exists.

“The U.N.’s methodology is unreliable, as it has traditionally counted as ‘settler violence’ even incidents of self-defense by Jews, and depends for its facts almost entirely on Palestinian self-reporting,” Kontorovich, a professor at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School and director of the international law department at Kohelet, told JNS.

“Yet even by their statistics, the so-called settler violence epidemic is a mirage, with serious violent crime by settlers occurring at a rate vastly lower than major American and European cities. According to the U.N., the settler violence problem is about as severe as the violent crime problem in Boise, Idaho, or Gilbert, Arizona,” he said.

The main source for “settler violence” statistics are those compiled by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA-oPT).

“The report relies on the flawed statistics provided by OCHA,” Shalev told JNS. “Every event between Jews and Arabs is considered settler violence regardless of who initiated it.”
Israel rejects European criticism of tougher Gaza NGO vetting
Israel on Tuesday dismissed as “completely unfounded and detached from reality” a joint statement from a group of countries, mostly European, criticizing Israel’s revamped registration rules for NGOs operating in Gaza.

Israel instituted stricter procedures starting on Jan. 1. Groups whose primary activity is providing assistance for Palestinians in Gaza and Judea and Samaria must now submit details about their organizations, including lists of their local employees.

An association of 19 international aid organizations petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice challenging the tougher requirements. The High Court, however, rejected the petitions and upheld the new rules in a unanimous decision in late May. It gave the organizations 30 days to comply with the new security screening procedures or cease operations.

It was the High Court’s ruling that led to the joint statement by 21 countries, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom. Australia and Japan also signed along with an E.U. commissioner.

Describing the decision as “deeply concerning,” the joint statement said, “The registration law will affect and severely limit the INGO’s [international nongovernmental organizations’] capacity to respond inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East-Jerusalem. We again strongly urge Israel to not implement the registration law in its current form.”

Israel’s Foreign Ministry pushed back on the assertion, noting that vast quantities of humanitarian aid enter the Gaza Strip, with numerous international aid organizations distributing that assistance. Since the Oct. 10, 2025, ceasefire, more than 1.6 million tons of food have entered the Strip. An average of 600 aid trucks enter each day, it said.
Fired ‘60 Minutes’ Reporter Cecilia Vega Was Preparing Cozy Profile of UN’s ‘Racist Antisemite’ Francesca Albanese When She Was Axed: Vega Also Fronted 2025 ‘Disgraceful Hitjob on Israel’
Recently axed 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega was cooperating with the virulently anti-Israel United Nations official Francesca Albanese—who's been accused by the United States of "malignant anti-Semitism"—on a profile for the flagship news program, and was preparing to fly to Tunis to interview her on camera, when Vega was suddenly fired, according to a new report from Zeteo, which spoke to Albanese.

60 Minutes producers had already been filming on location with Albanese, who is under formal sanctions imposed by the U.S. government. Albanese is accused of using multiple antisemitic tropes, minimizing the violence of Oct. 7, and comparing Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto and Israel to the Third Reich, an antisemitic device known as Holocaust inversion. Last July, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Albanese "spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism and open contempt for the United States, Israel and the West."

Vega—who helmed an incendiary January 2025 60 Minutes piece that featured ex-Biden administration officials denouncing American support for Israel's war against Hamas—had already met twice with Albanese, Zeteo reported, to lay the groundwork for a profile showcasing her work as the U.N. special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, a position that has enabled Albanese to travel the globe accusing Israel of genocide.

Vega's cooperation with a woman the Biden and Trump administrations have condemned as one of the West's most toxic antisemites—and her association with the January 2025 60 Minutes Gaza segment that Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) called "a disgraceful hit job against Israel"—may have caused internal friction at CBS News, which is under new management after facing persistent criticism for anti-Israel bias. It could also offer an explanation for Vega's termination after only three years as a 60 Minutes correspondent, a coveted job that journalists typically only leave when they retire or, in several cases, die.

"Yes, she was working on a profile of me for '60 Minutes,'" Albanese told Zeteo about Vega. "In May, her crew traveled to two different locations to follow my work, and we had two additional segments planned: an interview in Tunis, where I live, and another piece before I present my report to the U.N. General Assembly."


Head of Palestinian soccer says US hasn’t granted him visa to attend World Cup
The head of the Palestinian Football Association is waiting in Mexico City for permission to enter the United States with other federation heads attending the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Jibril Rajoub went to the opening match between Mexico and South Africa on Thursday in Mexico City. But he is among several people accredited to attend the soccer World Cup who have been denied visas or have yet to receive them from the United States.

“I don’t believe that it’s fair to use or to abuse and deny the right of all footballers all over the world to attend,” the veteran Palestinian political figure said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The Palestinian team did not qualify for the World Cup, but FIFA typically invites the heads of soccer associations from around the world to the event every four years, which it frames as a celebration of global unity.

“Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year. We are working exactly for that,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said last year.

The United States, however, has refused entry to delegates from a raft of countries, including a referee from Somalia and a photographer traveling with Iraq’s team.

Infantino said this week that FIFA had been trying to resolve visa issues but could not overrule the US government.

“We need to respect that we are not the kings of the world who can rule over governments and police forces,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

The US State Department had no immediate comment on Rajoub’s visa, but last year it implemented new restrictions on Palestinian passport holders, including on anyone who has been employed by the Palestinian Authority.


US-Iran deal to include dismantling of Iranian nuclear program, US official says
The emerging peace deal between the US and Iran will include the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program and allow the US to retrieve enriched nuclear material from Iran, according to a Reuters report citing a senior US official on Friday.

The deal, which will reportedly include reopening the Strait of Hormuz, lifting the US blockade on Iranian ports, and US acquisition of enriched material, is an important step towards ensuring that Iran doesn't acquire a nuclear weapon, said the official. According to Reuters' report, he also stated that Iran is committing to never developing a nuclear weapon.

The text of the deal was agreed upon by the two countries, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced in a social media post on Friday.

The deal accomplishes the US's core objectives, said the official, who also claimed that it will guarantee "long-term peace in the region."

The official also reportedly stated that he is confident that Israeli leadership will get on board once they see the full terms of the agreement.

If Iran complies, he said, it will be rewarded economically, with benefits for Iran accruing if they "actually deliver." He clarified, however, that the Iranians won't receive anything for simply signing the agreement.

The agreed-upon text that is currently in place, with the help of Pakistani mediation, is one that both the US and Iran like, he said, adding that the US expects to sign the agreement over the next few days.

An estimated 60-day technical negotiation will likely follow, according to the US official, with Europe being discussed as the possible site for the negotiations.


Report: Qatar offered to cut gas production in exchange for Iran sparing key facility
Qatar reportedly sought a deal with Iran early in the Middle East war that would see Tehran spare a key Qatari energy complex in exchange for Doha halting gas production.

Such a production halt would be meant to send energy prices soaring, ratcheting up pressure on the US and Israel to end the conflict, according to the Washington Post.

Qatar’s efforts fell apart when Iran on March 18 struck Ras Laffan and other gas fields across the Persian Gulf in response to Israel’s first-ever targeting of a major Iranian gas field, the report said.

The fighting began on February 28, when Israel and the US launched a bombing campaign on Iran in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.

Iran responded with missile and drone strikes across the region, and by imposing a blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, which choked off about a fifth of the world’s oil shipments and triggered a global spike in energy prices.

The fighting entered a fragile truce on April 8. Qatar, which is friendly with both the US and Iran, has since been involved in mediation between the two countries to bring the war to an end.

Qatar’s appeal to Iran at the start of the war was intercepted by a non-US intelligence service that was monitoring communications of Iranian leaders, according to the Washington Post, which cited regional security officials and Western officials briefed on the intelligence.

While Iran never committed to the deal, Qatar’s conduct early in the war suggested the possibility of a “tacit understanding” between the countries, the report said.
Report says UAE to release billions of dollars to Iran, in major shift meant to halt attacks
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, four sources said, in a tactical shift after weeks of Iranian attacks on the wealthy Gulf Arab state during the US-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic.

Word of the move, which has not been previously reported, coincides with the final stages of broader negotiations between Tehran and Washington on ending the war, talks that diplomats say could involve the release of tens of billions of dollars in Iranian oil revenues frozen in foreign banks under US sanctions.

Two regional sources told Reuters the UAE had agreed to release a total of $10 billion, more than $3 billion of which had already been delivered.

The UAE’s foreign ministry categorically denied the report, including the claim it had transferred some funds already, saying claims it has “released, transferred, or moved” frozen funds to Iran were “untrue and not based on any facts or reliable information.”

Two other sources with knowledge of the arrangement put the total funds involved at $20 billion, adding that the move had been agreed in return for a halt to Iranian attacks on the UAE. One of the sources with knowledge of the arrangement also said a first tranche of $3 billion had already been made available.

Reuters could not establish whether the funds earmarked for the transfers belong to the UAE or originate in long-blocked Iranian accounts in the UAE banking system, or elsewhere.


310 Hezbollah targets struck in Lebanon over past week, IDF reports
Israel Defense Forces troops continue to operate simultaneously in the northern, southern and central sectors to remove threats to Israeli civilians, the military said on Friday, reporting hundreds of strikes and dozens of arrests over the past week.

In the Northern Command area of responsibility, the Israeli Air Force, directed by ground troops, struck approximately 310 Hezbollah terrorist targets and eliminated some 80 terrorists in Southern Lebanon, the IDF said.

The operations were conducted alongside ongoing ground activity along the forward defense line aimed at dismantling terrorist infrastructure and removing threats to Israeli civilians and troops operating in the area, the military said.

In the Southern Command area of responsibility, the IDF said efforts to locate and dismantle underground routes continued, particularly in the Khan Yunis area of the Gaza Strip.

More than 20 terrorists were eliminated, including three senior members of the Islamic Jihad organization, as well as the head of a Hamas funds-transfer infrastructure and his deputy, according to the military.

In the Central Command area of responsibility, the IDF said that as part of dozens of counter-terrorism operations in Judea and Samaria, more than 50 wanted suspects were apprehended, including individuals accused of inciting terrorism, advancing terrorist activities and possessing or trafficking in weapons.


IDF kills 10 Hezbollah field commanders, successors
The IDF announced on Friday that it has recently killed more than 10 of Hezbollah’s field commanders and their successors during its operations in southern Lebanon.

Among the terrorists killed was the commander of Hezbollah’s Nasser Unit, Hajj Salameh. Less than two months after his assassination, two of his successors, Mahdi Bazzi and Ashraf Salloum, were killed.

The IDF additionally killed the commander of Hezbollah’s Shaqif Sector, Nasser Shaqir, and his successor, Ahmad Sablini, within twelve hours of each other.

The other Hezbollah commanders killed were Bint Jbeil Sector Commander Ali Abbas, Tyre Sector Commander Kamil Younes, Hajir Sector Commander Fuad Moussa, Jibshit Sector Commander Hussein Salami, al-Khiam Sector Commander Ali Khayekh, and Qana Sector Commander Musallam Harb.

The IDF emphasized that it will continue to operate against Hezbollah commanders who serve as key figures in advancing attacks against the State of Israel and IDF soldiers.

IDF strikes, destroys Hezbollah rocket launchers
Also on Friday, the IDF announced that it struck and destroyed five Hezbollah rocket launchers used to fire rockets at Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, including one vehicle-mounted launcher.

Precise strikes were also carried out against a Hezbollah command center and Hezbollah terrorists operating near IDF soldiers.


Commentary Podcast: Stall Tales
It's Friday, and time to discuss yet another round of "is there a deal with Iran?" after reports on the latest proposal that put a halt to a planned attack on Kharg Island. How much longer can this situation persist? Plus, Jodi Kantor defends Graham Platner and lays MeToo to rest.


US probes NIAC founder Trita Parsi for possible deportation Eli Lake: Iran’s Favourite Washington Pundit
Journalist Jay Solomon is back on the show this week to discuss his latest explosive investigation into Trita Parsi, the Iranian-born, Swedish-raised lobbyist who spent 20 years at the center of Washington’s foreign policy debate over Iran. Parsi built two influential organizations, cultivated powerful allies on both left and right, and consistently pushed a line on Iran that looked remarkably like the one coming out of Tehran’s foreign ministry.

Now the Marco Rubio State Department is taking a serious look at his immigration status, and the organization Parsi co-founded, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, is mobilizing lawyers and foundation money to fight back. Jay and Eli trace the full arc of the story, from Iran’s post-9/11 influence operation to the leaked Iranian emails that blew the lid off the Iran Experts Initiative, which counted Parsi’s brother among its members.





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