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** Iranian Regime's Insatiable Drive to Wipe Out Jews, Christians, Minorities: World Turns a Blind Eye ([link removed])
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by Majid Rafizadeh • July 18, 2026 at 5:00 am
* The Islamic Republic of Iran, since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, has operated as a terrorist state, using the IRGC and proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis to advance its aims.
* No diplomatic deal or agreement has ever permanently halted these activities: the regime views such pacts as temporary opportunities for enrichment and rearmament.
* One rarely sees robust UN condemnations or widespread mainstream media outrage when Iranian attacks and plots against synagogues are carried out or disrupted. Yet, when Israel defends its citizens against attacks by Iran backed Hezbollah, the volume of criticism and calls for restraint are immediate and intense. This double standard emboldens terrorists and isolates the one democracy in the region, which actively counters a threat to Western civilization.
* The international system's bias against the tiny state of Israel that is fighting to defend these sanctimonious ingrates only undermines security, freedom and peace, and -- in ostentatious displays of cowardice, such as pleas to create a terrorist Palestinian state -- actually rewards Iran's aggression against the West by showing the terrorists that terrorism works.
* Governments need to close Iranian embassies where IRGC influence is suspected, expel connected diplomats, impose crippling sanctions that halt all trade, and fully cut economic ties. Iran's diplomatic missions have long served as hubs for intelligence and proxy coordination.
* Fully supporting U.S. and Israeli efforts against the regime is also crucial to neutralizing the threat.
* Symbolic measures -- bans and designations -- while welcome, urgently need to evolve into comprehensive isolation: severed diplomatic ties, airtight sanctions, and unwavering support for those on the front lines. Only by treating the Iranian regime and its proxies as the terrorist networks they are — without illusions of "moderation" — can the world curb their threat. Israel's defense is not merely self-preservation; it protects the principle that no nation can live under the shadow of genocidal intent.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, has operated as a terrorist state, using the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis to advance its aims. No diplomatic deal or agreement has ever permanently halted these activities: the regime views such pacts as temporary opportunities for enrichment and rearmament. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on as a 'Qasem Soleimani' missile is displayed during a military parade in Tehran, on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Despite sanctions and military setbacks, Tehran's ideological commitment to the destruction of Israel, and targeting Jewish, Christian, Baha'i and other worldwide minority communities, remains a core pillar of its foreign policy and proxy strategies.

In Iran, far from being "just" rhetoric, this antagonism is daily seen in a pattern of terrorist operations, including plots against synagogues, Jewish sites, Christians, Baha'i and other "infidels," which exposes the regime's transnational reach.

When, however, anyone says that Iran is doing this, the so-called international community and United Nations are completely silent.

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