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June 28, 2021

Iran’s New President Won’t Make Any Concessions When It Comes to Nuclear Weapons

A cleric with a proven capacity to repress and liquidate those willing to challenge the theocracy.

On June 19, Ebrahim Raisi emerged as the winner of the Islamic Republic’s presidential election. In his life-long career in the service of the clerical regime, Raisi has distinguished himself as an enforcer, making his bones sending people to firing squads during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, sentencing hundreds if not thousands to death in 1988, and supervising the jailing and assassination of dissidents in the 1990s. Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh comment on the significance of his victory:

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June 28, 2021

  1. The Centuries-Old Jewish Roots of Israeli Democracy

    While surrounding societies were ruled by sultans, kings, and emperors, Jews had representatives and elections.

  2. Iran’s New President Won’t Make Any Concessions When It Comes to Nuclear Weapons

    A cleric with a proven capacity to repress and liquidate those willing to challenge the theocracy.

  3. Despite Recent Polls, It’s Unlikely Young Evangelicals Are Abandoning Israel

    A change in focus rather than a change in views.

  4. One of Israel’s Greatest Caricaturists Tackles the European Jewish Past

    Now in English.

  5. The Rabbi Who Befriended Johannes Kepler

    David Gans and the great astronomers.