Meir Javedanfar

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Jan 17, 2024, 10:40 PM

Mousavi’s killing leads to vitriol and genocidal threats against Israel

The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a senior adviser of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps - Quds Force (IRGC-QF) in Syria, on December 25 outside Damascus led to harsh anti-Israel rhetoric from officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the...

Jul 19, 2023, 2:30 PM

The world ignores Iran’s interest in Latin America to global detriment

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi shakes hands with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as he receives the Order of Libertador y Libertadora de Primera Clase, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Iran's shady activities in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba help the regime defy sanctions and ignore the needs of its own desperate population

Jul 18, 2023, 6:27 PM

The Islamic Republic tries to maintain its hold in Latin America

July 18 marks the 29th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires by Hezbollah, a terrorist proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The AMIA bombing, which killed 85 people and injured over 300, remains...

Mar 30, 2023, 9:29 PM

44 years after the revolution the Iranian regime hits rock bottom

Participants in the annual rally commemorating Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution carry a huge Iranian flag and posters of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

The Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, antisemitism, and Holocaust denial, celebrated the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution last month. This year, perhaps more than any other since the 1979 revolution, the Iranian...

Jan 26, 2023, 11:39 AM

Iran is still in the Holocaust denial biz – big time

An Iranian man looks at a cartoon showing Adolf Hilter at the second international exhibition of drawing and cartoons on the Holocaust in Tehran on May 14, 2016. The third such contest was held in 2020. (AFP / ATTA KENARE)

Busy cracking down on protesters and exporting terror, the regime still finds time to spread lies about the Shoah

Jan 23, 2017, 3:55 PM

This Iranian’s direct response to Netanyahu

Netanyahu's YouTube message will fall on deaf ears if he scuttles the nuclear deal

Jan 19, 2015, 11:35 AM

Why attack Hezbollah now?

Among the possibilities: Israel does not much care for red lines

Aug 30, 2014, 5:07 PM

Hamas is the loser

Hamas caved in to terms it had already rejected after Israel started assassinating its leaders

Jun 25, 2014, 7:17 PM

The Iranians who want to lose the Cup

As their team vies to reach the World Cup's knockout stages, an elite few forsee a big downside to a victory

Feb 3, 2014, 2:54 PM

Israel reaches out to Iran — again

Defense Minister Ya'alon was making a goodwill gesture when he sat in the front row at a talk by Iran’s foreign minister

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About Me

Meir Javedanfar is an Iranian-Israeli lecturer, author, and commentator. He has been teaching Iranian politics at Reichman University in Israel since 2012 and is Anti-Defamation League’s Iran consultant.