Although there’s been talk of a possible US-Iran nuclear weapons deal in the works, the death-obsessed Iranian regime is not sounding peaceful at all. In a twisted article printed in their state-run newspaper, they praised the sick antisemite who killed a young couple—Israel Embassy staffers Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky—in cold blood Wednesday in Washington D.C.
This does not sound like a country or a regime that is interested in peace.
"Our dear brother Elias Rodriguez, who killed two Israelis in the U.S., has founded the Washington Basij," the newspaper wrote Saturday. The Basij is an Iranian para-military organization that is assigned to crush all dissent against Khamenei’s ironclad rule.
The fiercely anti-American editor of Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari, asked, "Any news of our dear brother Elias Rodriguez, who sent two Zionist wild animals in Washington to hell with a bullet?"
Even long-time experts on the regime were taken aback by Iran’s glorification of cold-blooded murder.
"Iran openly calls for terror attacks against Israel on U.S. soil. Kayhan, the mouthpiece of Supreme Leader Khamenei, praises the attack on Israeli embassy staff in Washington DC — one of whom was an American citizen — calling the killer the founder of the ‘Washington Basij,’ Iran’s brutal militia," Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Oren Marmorstein, wrote on X. "Unfathomable."
Iran openly calls for terror attacks against Israel on U.S. soil.
— Oren Marmorstein (@OrenMarmorstein) May 25, 2025
Kayhan, the mouthpiece of Supreme Leader Khamenei, praises the attack on Israeli embassy staff in Washington DC — one of whom was an American citizen — calling the killer the founder of the “Washington Basij,”… pic.twitter.com/G7yaWojRie
Unfathomable.
Team Trump has been working toward negotiating a deal whereby Iran would stop its development of nuclear weapons. It’s unclear how this latest unhinged broadside will affect the discussions, but it certainly can’t help.
The timing of the Khamenei-controlled newspaper's editorial coincided with a report from Israel Hayom that the Trump administration is weighing the acceptance of an interim nuclear agreement with Iran. A senior U.S. official told the Israeli paper that the partial deal would mean Iran would abandon pursuit of nuclear weapons in exchange for limited sanctions relief.
However, the clerical regime has repeatedly insisted it would never abandon the right to enrich uranium, which could enable Tehran to build an atomic bomb. Iran’s regime has been designated a leading state-sponsor of terrorism since the mid-1980s by the U.S. government.
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The Iranian regime once again showed its true colors as a death-obsessed cult that has no real interest in peace. Even for them, this is pretty sick stuff. The time may come when negotiations simply aren’t enough.
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