What, if anything, is to prevent a rogue state such as Iran from concealing its nuclear program?

Sarah N. Stern | April 25, 2025

President Hassan Rouhani gives a speech at the Motahari stadium of Sabzevar on May 6, 2018 (Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0)

About two-dozen Mossad agents broke into a clandestine warehouse in the middle of an industrial section of Tehran on Jan. 30, 2018, making away with more than 100,000 documents outlining the Islamic regime’s nuclear-weapons work. This collection covered years of Iran’s nuclear archive, including the AMAD Project’s production plans, enrichment projections and warhead designs.

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Avi Abelow | April 27, 2025

Itamar Ben Gvir (Photo by Shai CandlerOwn work, CC0)

I have no problem acknowledging that some Jews, especially outside of Israel, feel uneasy about figures like Itamar Ben-Gvir. People can argue about his past actions, his political style, or certain statements, and not want to vote for him in Israeli elections. Reasonable people can have real discussions about these things.

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Peloni:  Must see video.

Peloni:  See Trump’s statement regarding current negotiations and Putin’s recent attacks at bottom.

Sundance | April 26, 2025

From the outset of the Ukraine -vs- Russia conflict I have been saying this is “world war Reddit”. CTH awakens today to this photo, blasting across the geopolitical landscape.

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by Majid Rafizadeh  •  Gatestone Institute  •  April 26, 2025

Each round of diplomacy gives Iran’s regime more room to maneuver, more time to develop its weapons, and more resources to fund terror proxies across the Middle East and Latin America. The result is not peace — it is proliferation. Pictured: Iranian Airborne Cruise Missile (Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0)

• Talks offer hope of sanctions relief, currency stabilization, and international legitimacy — all while buying time to continue uranium enrichment behind closed doors. The West calls it a “deal.” Iran calls it a jackpot.

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Peloni:  No clear progress as delay persists, which is of course Iran’s purpose in the talks.

FDD  | April 26, 2025

Latest Developments

Iran-geographic map.svg (Photo by Ikonact – Iran-geographic map.svg, CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Talks Continue: A third round of negotiations between the United States and Iran over the future of Tehran’s nuclear program took place on April 26 in Muscat, the capital of Oman. The technical talks, mediated by Oman, lasted several hours between delegations led by White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Iran’s top diplomat said that the “presence of experts” in Saturday’s discussions “was very useful.” The negotiations followed two previous rounds of talks in Rome on April 19 and Oman on April 12.

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Make Iran Great Again

MG Paul E Vallely & Cyrus Force Iran | | Apr 23, 2025

A Letter to President Trump and Mr. Witkoff,

Have you read the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran?

Are you aware that eight articles in this constitution clearly state that the Iranian regime must fight the United States to the end? When it was written 46 years ago, it even predicted that after 42 years, the U.S. would be defeated and the Islamic regime would dominate the entire world.

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Peloni:  Clear likelihood of US strike remains, but down from previous estimate.

Khaled Hassan | X | April 23, 2025

Original Prediction (90% likelihood of U.S. strike):
My earlier forecast of an imminent U.S. military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities rested on five interconnected factors:

1. Iran’s Defiant Posture: Tehran’s refusal to engage in direct talks, rejection of demands to dismantle its nuclear program, and threats against U.S. regional assets created a volatile backdrop.
2. Trump Administration’s Maximalist Demands: The U.S. explicitly ruled out reviving JCPOA-style limits, insisting instead on full dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. President Trump’s threats of overwhelming military force (“bombing the likes of which they have never seen”) mirrored this uncompromising stance.
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Peloni:  MEMRI’s Yigal Carmon explores the history of Al-Jolani as he morphed from a pan-Arab Jihadist to a Syrian nationalist, explaining that the fate of the people of Syria will be defined by the degree of their acceptance of the rule of Islam under this new Islamist dictator.  While it wouldn’t change the predictions for the future, it is curious that Carmon did not relate the relevance of Jolini being Turkey’s puppet.

You’re always going to see the worst of the worst, and the RPGs that are going to be fired, they’re going to you. And the explosives that are going to be blown up, they’re going to blow up on you. And the people who are going to die, you’re going to be the one to see them die.

ANJULI PANDAVAR | 25 Apr 2025

Editorial note: On 22 January 2025, Murtadd to Human published Herzi Halevi, the top brass and the “Palestinian state” agenda, Part 1 and Herzi Halevi, the top brass and the “Palestinian state” agenda, Part 2, in which we examined the military leadership’s deliberate and systematic degradation of the IDF as a fighting force and their headlong rush to dismantle the ground forces in particular.

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Peloni:  Trump’s pro-Israel policy during his first term provided the context of a greater vision of security and stability in a region noted for its intractable dedication towards terrorism and chaos.  In fact, the sentiments which filled this speech should characterize the policies of Trump’s second administration.  A stronger, safer, more secure Israel makes for a stronger, safer and more secure America.  The mutual interests and values shared between these two great nations have been badly betrayed by policies put in place, both before and after Trump’s first term, and this betrayal has brought the contest between barbarism and civilization to a head, as Trump seeks to deal with the Iranian nuclear menace.  So, as his advisors and envoys seek to reassert Obama-like deals, it begs the question of whether the civilizational advocacy which Trump promoted in this speech some eight years ago has been replaced by something more timid, or if he continues to stand resolved to

“…drive out the terrorists and the extremists from our midst, obliterate this evil ideology, and protect and defend our citizens and people of the world.”

While growing up in Moscow, I never once encountered Jews who hated Israel or wished her ill. Now, in Israel as well as among Diaspora Jewry, a series of betrayals, shame and meanness are imprinted in my memory like a newsreel.

Alexander Maistrovoy | Apr 25, 2025

Alexander Maistrovoy (A. Maistrovoy)

I grew up in Soviet Moscow, in a largely Jewish environment. We often talked about Israel, discussed what was happening in Israel, worried about this country.

I DO NOT REMEMBER a single example when I encountered disdain and negative attitudes toward Israel among Moscow Jews. Some preferred to discuss this topic in a whisper – more than understandable, given the regime’s prohibitions. Some were bolder.

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Here is the translated video clip which @ElliotKaufman6 referred to earlier today (see below).
This is one of the most extreme anti-Netanyahu activists in the Israeli press, Raviv Druker (can’t tag him, he blocked me), in conversation with one of the most effective anti-Israel… pic.twitter.com/0p2qfIKnF8

— Gadi Taub ???? ?? (@GadiTaub1) April 25, 2025

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Peloni:  Useful idiots are promoting their own enslavement and destruction

“The future of our country is still in our hands” says Adam Milstein. We have overcome external enemies and internal divisions.

By ADAM MILSTEIN | APRIL 24, 2025

By Ted Eytan – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

“This American empire must fall”

This statement did not come from Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, from Vladimir Putin of Russia, or from China’s Xi Jinping. It came from a Muslim American resident of Dearborn, Michigan, who added: “People are willing to fight and put their lives on the line to bring these Western empires down.”

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“Then October 7th happened and we were an army on the brink of death. We were very lucky because we had the police on that day. They pretty much, along with Israeli civilians, saved the day.”

ANJULI PANDAVAR | 25 Apr 2025

Editorial note: On 22 January 2025, Murtadd to Human published Herzi Halevi, the top brass and the “Palestinian state” agenda, Part 1 and Herzi Halevi, the top brass and the “Palestinian state” agenda, Part 2, in which we examined the military leadership’s deliberate and systematic degradation of the IDF as a fighting force and their headlong rush to dismantle the ground forces in particular. Read more…

Peloni:  David Wurmser and Frank Gaffney discuss Egypt and the possibility of it aligning with hostile forces against the US and Israel.  Begin watching 15min video at about 33min. mark.

by Rafael Medoff

A defenseless Jewish woman is surrounded by a group of men with guns. The leader of the group raises a pistol and shoots the woman point-blank, killing her. It was a scene played out a million times and more during the Holocaust.

Except in this case, the year was 1978, the murderer was a 19 year-old Palestinian Arab terrorist named Dalal Mughrabi, and the victim was Gail Rubin, the niece of a U.S. senator. In recent days, the public’s attention has been drawn back to that atrocity by the controversy over Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia university student facing deportation. Mahdawi’s friends say he is against terrorism, but he has a long record of statements praising and admiring terrorists—including a poem he wrote in tribute to Ms. Mughrabi.

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