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Israel’s official X account shares Times Square video hailing Khamenei’s death in joint U.S.-Israel strike as “a first step towards a better world.”
“The world will be a safer place when these radical clerics no longer have access to these weapons,” the U.S. secretary of state said.
“We’re not using anyone as an interlocutor,” the official said. “No messaging back and forth between the countries.”
The U.S. State Department said the drone hit the compound’s parking lot and all U.S. personnel “are accounted for.”
“The Iranians are going to strike us where we are least defended,” Michael Rubin, of the American Enterprise Institute, told JNS.
“If you really ask me who is in charge, I would say no one,” said Mehdi Parpanchi, executive editor of Iran International.
“Many people like me fled Iran to have a better life, but always our hearts and minds remain in Iran,” Homeira Bakhtiari told JNS.
“I might have forced their hand,” the president told reporters at the White House.
The statement “fails to appreciate, support and express gratitude for the brilliant, necessary joint U.S.-Israeli actions against the Iranian regime,” Morton Klein told JNS.
Despite the new approach, 55% of the confirmed hate crimes in New York City in February targeted Jews.
“Every New Yorker deserves to live in a safe city where they can practice their faith freely and without fear,” stated NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Magic helped Jewish immigrant families find a “foothold and potentially become incredibly successful,” the exhibit curator told JNS.
