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JERUSALEM – The paper for the rogue authorities of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei praised the antheral who allegedly murdered an American and Israeli Wednesday nighttime successful Washington, D.C., calling him "our beloved brother."
Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old Chicago man, allegedly told constabulary and witnesses helium had gunned down Sarah Milgrim, a 26-year-old American from Kansas, and her 30-year-old Israeli boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, "for Palestine . . . for Gaza."
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were changeable and killed arsenic they near an lawsuit astatine the Capital Jewish Museum, airs for a representation astatine an chartless location, successful this handout representation released by Embassy of Israel to the U.S. connected May 22, 2025. (Embassy of Israel to the USA via X/Handout via Reuters)
"Our beloved member Elias Rodriguez, who killed 2 Israelis successful the U.S., has founded the Washington Basij," the paper wrote Saturday. The Basij is an Iranian para-military enactment that is assigned to crush each dissent against Khamenei’s ironclad rule.
The fiercely anti-American exertion of Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari, asked, "Any quality of our beloved member Elias Rodriguez, who sent 2 Zionist chaotic animals successful Washington to hellhole with a bullet?"
The Iranian media’s glorification of the murders stunned adjacent longtime authorities watchers.
"Iran openly calls for panic attacks against Israel connected U.S. soil. Kayhan, the mouthpiece of Supreme Leader Khamenei, praises the onslaught connected Israeli embassy unit successful Washington DC — 1 of whom was an American national — calling the slayer the laminitis of the ‘Washington Basij,’ Iran’s brutal militia," Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Oren Marmorstein, wrote connected X. "Unfathomable."
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The timing of the Khamenei-controlled newspaper's editorial coincided with a report from Israel Hayom that the Trump medication is weighing the acceptance of an interim atomic statement with Iran. A elder U.S. authoritative told the Israeli insubstantial that the partial woody would mean Iran would wantonness pursuit of atomic weapons successful speech for constricted sanctions relief.
However, the clerical authorities has repeatedly insisted it would never wantonness the right to enrich uranium, which could alteration Tehran to physique an atomic bomb. Iran’s authorities has been designated a starring state-sponsor of coercion since the mid-1980s by the U.S. government.
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Vatan-e-Emrooz, a paper controlled by the U.S.-designated violent enactment Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, besides glorified the assassinations of the pair, who were unit employees astatine the Israeli embassy.
"These repulsive paper articles are a reminder that the Iranian authorities is the starring state-sponsor of antisemitism," Jason Brodsky, argumentation manager of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told Fox News Digital. "Kayhan successful the past has published articles praising Hitler, truthful the praising of the execution of 2 Israeli embassy employees, including a Jewish American, should sadly travel arsenic nary surprise."
Elias Rodriguez, the 31-year-old fishy accused of shooting 2 Israeli Embassy staffers connected Wednesday, May 21, successful Washington, D.C. (Instagram/@shinewithIsrael)
Brodsky said the media statements amusement that the authorities cannot beryllium trusted, and that the Trump medication should beryllium wary erstwhile it holds talks to commercialized sanctions alleviation for a pledge not to prosecute atomic weapons.
"The existent look of the Islamic Republic is represented by these articles, not its smiling diplomats astatine the negotiating tables of Oman and Rome," helium said.
Iranian-born Israeli Beni Sabti, an adept connected Iran and a probe chap for the Institute for National Security Studies, told Fox News Digital the menace of panic from his homeland is directed astatine the U.S.
"It's precise important that Americans recognize that the panic is besides oregon mostly against them," helium said.
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Sabti added that Vatan-e-Emrooz's connection of enactment of the murders means "the shooting was revenge by that feline and besides successful the Islamic contented that Elias is the prophet Eliyahoo, who killed galore infidels, truthful it's a benignant of operation that Elias is simply a antheral of God erstwhile helium killed those employees of the embassy."
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