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Deep in the heart of Tehran, a Mossad agent works against the clock to carry out a top-secret mission aimed at paving the way for an IDF airstrike against an Iranian nuclear reactor.
For once, this isn’t a story ripped from the headlines. Rather, it’s the plot of “Tehran,” an Israeli-Iranian espionage thriller coming to Apple TV+ this week after a successful run in Israel. The first three episodes of the show which hit airwaves in Israel in June will arrive on the streaming platform on Friday, with the remaining five installments released weekly.
In the show, the streets of Tehran are actually in Athens, the Iranian-born Mossad agent is an Israeli actress with Moroccan heritage and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard henchman is played by a Jewish-Iranian expat living in Los Angeles. And that dissonance perfectly personifies the fast-paced new thriller, which blurs the traditional lines of good guys and bad guys and works to humanize the very enemy people have bee
Phares: Biden Will Be Obama’s 3rd Term
Commentary
Middle East scholar Walid Phares warns in his latest book, “The Choice: Trump vs. Obama in U.S. Foreign Policy,” that a Biden presidency means a return to the disastrous foreign policies of the Obama administration.
Phares played a key role in formulating Donald Trump’s “America First” strategy during the 2016 campaign.
His book offers a clear reminder that the difference between Joe Biden’s policy preferences and those of the Trump administration is like “night” and “day.” Phares offers an incisive view of the nuances and differences between the Biden and Trump worldviews in the book.
KABUL: Senior Afghan analysts on Sunday criticized comments by the Iranian foreign minister, where he suggested fighters from Fatemiyoun, an Iranian militia made up of Afghan Shiite migrants, could help in Kabul’s fight against Daesh.
The Fatemiyoun Division is considered to be under the Quds Force, the branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responsible for overseas operations, which the US and many other countries consider a terrorist organization.
Tabish Forugh, an Afghan scholar based in the US, said Afghanistan should not “risk provoking unnecessary sectarian violence in the country.”
He added that Kabul could not under any circumstances recruit IRGC militias used as mercenaries in the wars of the Middle East.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe when she was allowed to leave prison on furlough in Spring 2020.
- Credit: Free Nazanin
With Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe facing yet another Christmas trapped as a hostage in Iran, husband Richard has welcomed the strong language in a new report from senior MPs.
The all-party foreign affairs select committee has put together a document saying that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps should be treated as a terrorist organisation
The committee report said the UK government should take explicit issue with Iran s state hostage taking in cases like Nazanin s, and that it should take a leading role in challenging the practice.