Kasra Aarabi

2 months ago | thejc.com | Kasra Aarabi |Jake Wallis Simons |Gavin Schaffer |Howard Jacobson

“We zealous youth will not forget cowardice of the decision makers [in Syria]”, a young radical from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Iranian regime’s paramilitary, tells me. Fault lines are emerging in the IRGC over the handling of Syria, which resulted in the collapse of Bashar al-Assad. The younger radicals are enraged at what they see as the “abandonment” of Syria. These divisions within the IRGC are causing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, major problems.

2 months ago | thejc.com | Kasra Aarabi |Jake Wallis Simons |Gavin Schaffer |Howard Jacobson

After the Holocaust, the Western world vowed never again to tolerate a regime committed to the extermination of the Jewish people. Eighty years on, despite all the rhetoric, either consciously or unconsciously, this promise has been broken. Let me be clear (and I write this as a British-Iranian): the West has been, and remains, in complete denial about the Iranian regime’s war on Jews.