“Exclusive: Iran’s Guards ban communications devices after strike on Hezbollah,” Reuters, 9-23-24.  This immediately begs two questions.  How will the Regime talk to its soldiers and its proxies, in and outside of Iran and across the Middle East?  Second, if a country (Israel) shuts down the communications of another country, isn’t that an act of war?  Why isn’t Iran openly declaring war against Israel today?  Food for thought.  Maybe … they already are at war.  Wait, another question.  Did Israel’s use of the pagers violate international law?  I wonder if Iran will make that argument.  I wonder what Israel would say.  I know what NPR says.  “Examining whether sophisticated explosions in Lebanon violated international law,” NPR, 9-20-24.

“Since 1979, when the clerical regime came to power, Iran’s agents have killed more than 440 Iranians outside its borders, by the count of the Abdorraham Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran (named for a democratic activist stabbed to death in the lobby of his Paris apartment building by agents of the Islamic Republic in 1991). The count does not include nonfatal attacks.”  See “Iran, Trump, and the Third Assassination Plot,” Time, 9-23-24.