Islamic Republic

Yom Kippur Eve: 150,000 gather at Western Wall as Iran sends message to the world

The Jerusalem Post's must-listen news roundup with Gadi Zaig - the top stories, clear and concise.

Jews praying for forgiveness (selichot), at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on the eve of Yom Kippur, October 1, 2025
Reza Pahlavi, exiled son of Iran's last shah and Iranian opposition figure, attends an interview with Reuters in Paris, France, July 14, 2026.

Pahlavi: Iran regime continues to erode from within as defections grow

A woman hand holds a sign with drawings of a lion and an Iranian woman and the slogan Woman Life Freedom in Paris in France on January 18, 2026. Demonstration in support of the Iranian uprising against the Islamic and in favor of the return of Reza Pahlavi.

Mahsa Amini's legacy, four years after her murder by Iran's morality police - editorial

A demonstrator wears a sticker over her mouth with the words "no execution" during a silent march denouncing the Iranian government's deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in the Islamic Republic, in Paris on January 31, 2026.

‘Last Breath’: The campaign giving Iran’s condemned a face and a name


Israel aids Saudi Arabia as Houthi threats grow and CENTCOM challenges Iran’s claims

The Jerusalem Post's must-listen news roundup with Gadi Zaig - the top stories, clear and concise.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chairs the inaugural session of the Shura Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 10, 2025

How Iran’s Khomeinist Left reinvented itself as the ‘Reformist’ hard core of power - opinion

Post-1979, the Khomeinist Left emerged as a violent, ideologically rigid force blending religious zealotry with leftist ideology. They were the direct executors of state repression.

A woman walks past a mural depicting Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran in August.

At the UN, gifts are never just gifts - they are influence - opinion

Jonathan Harounoff, the former spokesman for Israel’s mission to the UN, takes readers behind the scenes at the global forum 

Silk portraits of every UN secretary-general. A collection donated by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1997.
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'The Islamic Republic is already dead': A journalist's view from Iran - interview

Iran’s regime still holds power, but journalist Negar Mojtahedi says its grip on the Iranian people is already breaking

A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in support of Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic’s morality police, on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on September 20, 2022.
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Hezbollah’s use of cluster munitions against Israel may be war crime, HRW says in rare condemnation

“Not only are [cluster munitions] inherently indiscriminate, but unexploded submunitions can kill and injure civilians long after hostilities conclude.”

Iranian ballistic cluster munitions are fired towards Tel Aviv on March 27, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Iranian-American Jew Kamran Hekmati released from Tehran's Evin Prison, must stay in Iran - report

Iranian authorities have not issued an official statement confirming his release or detailing the conditions under which he was freed.

Kemran Hekmati, pictured in a family photo. Iran charged the 70-year-old Jewish Iranian-American for traveling to Israel.

Iran's response to US attacks will be 'faster, heavier, more painful,' Ghalibaf says

"From now on, any attack against Iran’s interests and security will receive a faster, heavier, and more painful response,” Ghalibaf said in a speech published on his Telegram channel.

A cleric walks near a residential building damaged by a strike on March 4, in Tehran, Iran, April 14, 2026.

Son of Iran's former vice president received over $2 million in Canadian gov't contracts - report

The report cited the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which claimed that the man “admitted to active participation in procurement activities that benefited the Iranian military."

A Canadian flag is displayed on June 12, 2026 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Fighting two cancers: Amir Heshmatpour’s battle against brain tumors and Iran’s regime - interview

A Persian entrepreneur with a Jewish wife, a breakthrough brain-cancer drug, and a mission against Tehran. NeOnc's Amir Heshmatpour, in his own words.

'Iran is a cancer': Iranian-born CEO takes on the regime

Car hits pro-government gathering in Mashhad, Iran, killing at least four, injuring at least 10

"The driver of the car is a man of about 35 years old and has a conditional license, with medical restrictions," said an unnamed traffic official in a Mizan report.

A picture shows traffic in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the province of Khorassan-e Razavi in northeastern Iran, on October 1, 2023