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\u201cIran says it postponed plan to send human to space,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 1-7-25.<\/p>\n

This, of course, is a blog about Iran and its Regime\u2019s drive to be a revolutionary force, not a normal country.\u00a0 This news story below is from Israel, and how Iran\u2019s targeting it since 1979 may now be reversable, not in regime change, but in targeting the weapons that Iran uses.\u00a0 How will respond?\u00a0 Like a normal country?\u00a0 See \u201cTrump\u2019s return creates opportunity to remove Iran threat, says blue-ribbon committee,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 1-7-25.<\/p>\n

\u201cUN says Iran executed over 900 people in 2024, including dozens of women,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 1-7-25.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Pulls Most Forces From Syria, in Blow to Tehran\u2019s Regional Ambitions,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 1-7-25.\u00a0 Quote of the Day:\u00a0 \u201cRebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said his forces\u2019 swift defeat of Assad has \u201cset the Iranian project in the region back by 40 years.\u201d\u201d\u00a0 The introduction reads, \u201cIranian forces have largely withdrawn from Syria following the Assad regime\u2019s December collapse, according to U.S., European and Arab officials, in a significant blow to Tehran\u2019s strategy for projecting power in the Middle East. The Iranian withdrawal marks the demise of a yearslong effort in which Tehran used Syria as a hub in its broader regional strategy of partnering with regimes and allied militias to spread influence and wage proxy war against the U.S. and Israel. Iranian-backed armed groups in Syria have launched attacks on U.S. forces and aided in attacks on Israel. Members of Iran\u2019s elite Quds Force have now fled to Iran and the militia groups have disbanded, a senior U.S. official said. The Islamic Republic spent billions of dollars and sent thousands of military personnel and allied fighters to Syria after the Arab Spring uprising in 2011, to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Syria was Iran\u2019s main state ally in the Middle East and a critical land bridge to Hezbollah\u2014the most powerful militia in Tehran\u2019s self-labeled \u201caxis of resistance\u201d alliance. Iran, already reeling from Israeli airstrikes on its assets and partners in the region, began withdrawing personnel during the dramatic 11-day collapse of the Assad regime\u2019s military late last year. When rebels in Syria launched an offensive in November, Iran\u2019s government was already frustrated with Assad, who had remained on the sidelines over the prior year during Tehran\u2019s multifront conflict with Israel. Iran\u2019s network in Syria once spanned the length of the country, from the east where the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps helped transport weapons and fighters into the country, to Syria\u2019s border with Lebanon, where it helped arm Hezbollah with weapons shipments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIran says it postponed plan to send human to space,\u201d Iran International, 1-7-25. This, of course, is a blog about Iran and its Regime\u2019s drive to be a revolutionary force, not a normal country.\u00a0 This news story below is from Israel, and how Iran\u2019s targeting it since 1979 may now be reversable, not in regime … <\/p>\n

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