Iran

“People are waiting for Trump, and if he does nothing, widespread hatred toward him will emerge among Iranians,” stated the rebel official from Iran's Interior Ministry.

With only seven countries deeply involved in developing space capabilities, Israel now has a larger qualitative advantage in that arena than in others where it once had an advantage.

“The Islamic Republic turned the streets into rivers of blood. No one has been able to show the depth of the crimes, because the regime shut down the internet," one anonymous citizen wrote.

What Trump will do if he decides to attack is far from clear, and whether he would succeed in toppling the regime is also a big question.

This follows a similar statement made by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who stated that "Any aggression against Khamenei is tantamount to all-out war against the Iranian nation."

Jerusalem is on high alert for a variety of imminent threat scenarios, the defense minister stressed, in a clear reference to the stand-off with Iran.

Human rights groups warned the regime stepped up executions in response to the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests, which erupted in response to the regime’s murder of Mahsa Amini.

This support is embedded in a broader context of severe and long-term loss of legitimacy facing Iran’s incumbent theocratic regime.

An Iranian official said authorities have verified at least 5,000 deaths in the protests, which are the biggest demonstrations since 2022, prompting UN rights chief Volker Turk to condemn violence.

Americans and Israelis shouldn’t need haters to remind us how closely our two countries are interconnected – with aligned values, overlapping liberal-democratic ideologies, and intertwined fates.