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Mohammad al-Saadi, right, meets with former Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in an undated photograph that the U.S. Justice Department said came from al-Saadi's social media accounts. (DOJ)
May 18, 2026, 4:42 pm
US charges Iraqi man with organizing synagogue attacks in Europe and NYC on behalf of Iran
Mohammad al-Saadi allegedly directed the new group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya.
By Philissa Cramer
A security guard stands on duty outside Finchley Reform Synagogue, in the North Finchley area of north London, on April 15, 2026, following an attack on the synagogue in the early hours of the morning. (Toby Shepheard / AFP via Getty Images)
April 20, 2026, 12:18 pm
Police eye Iran involvement as 3 London synagogues are targeted in arson attacks
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis decried “a sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community.”
By Philissa Cramer
A photograph taken from the southern Lebanese area of Tyre shows smoke as it rises from the site of Israeli airstrikes that targeted villages on southern Lebanon on April 16, 2026. (Kawnat HAJU / AFP)
April 16, 2026, 5:57 pm
Israel agrees to 10-day halt in fighting in Lebanon, after Trump announces ceasefire
The ceasefire comes as Trump aims to preserve his talks with Iran, whose proxy Hezbollah is based in Lebanon.
By Grace Gilson
President Donald Trump (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress)
April 5, 2026, 2:08 pm
‘Open the F—-in’ Strait’: Trump threatens to bomb Iran’s power plants
President promises ‘hell’ for regime’s ‘crazy bastards’ if they do not immediately allow passage of ships through key waterway, admits US sent guns to anti-regime protesters
By Nava Freiberg, Agencies
Illustrative image of a cyber attack. (Credit: TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)
March 20, 2026, 8:37 am
US Justice Department seizes four websites tied to Iranian hacking, targeting Israelis
“Terrorist propaganda online can incite real-world violence,” stated Pamela Bondi, the U.S. attorney general.
By JNS Staff
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivers a message for the Iranian New Year, or Nowruz, in Tehran, March 20, 2020. (Iranian Supreme Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
March 11, 2026, 10:01 am
The left won’t let Iranians be grateful for the end of Khamenei’s reign
the outpouring of joy by Iranians worldwide tells us this moment is far more complicated than the chants of those protesting the war would have it.
By Nadav Ziv
March 10, 2026, 6:14 pm
Chronicle poll results: US military strikes against Iran
We asked our readers if they support US military strikes against Iran at this time. Here's what they said.
By Toby Tabachnick
Mojtaba Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic. (Source: Iranian state television)
March 9, 2026, 11:04 am
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of late Iran regime leader, is head of Islamic Republic
The 56-year-old, whom the U.S. president has called a "lightweight," had been considered a likely replacement for his father, whom U.S. and Israeli forces assassinated.
By JNS Staff
Armed police officers patroling the day after terror attacks on the London Bridge and at Borough Market, London, England, June 4, 2017. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
March 6, 2026, 1:14 pm
4 men arrested in London for allegedly spying on Jewish community for Iran
Keir Starmer said last week that Iran had backed more than 20 “potentially lethal” attacks in the UK in the last year.
By Philissa Cramer
Ahmad Vahidi, then deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, arrives at the sixth anniversary of Qassem Soleimani's killing at Tehran's Musalla. Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC, was killed in 2020 in a U.S. missile strike in Iraq. (Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
March 6, 2026, 12:51 pm
Suspect in 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish center attack rises to lead Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
Argentina also issued a new arrest warrant for a different Iranian official this week.
By Juan Melamed
On Wednesday’s podcast, Tucker Carlson blamed Chabad for the Iran war. (Screenshot of "The Tucker Carlson Show")
March 5, 2026, 2:16 pm
Chabad on high alert after false Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens war claims
Two leading right-wing anti-Israel influencers hurl accusations that the highly visible Hasidic sect is somehow behind the Iran conflict
By Hannah Feuer
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Art Bromage/Pixabay)
March 5, 2026, 10:10 am
Senate votes down Iran war powers resolution 53-47
Sen. John Fetterman was the lone Democrat to vote against the measure
By JNS
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) at the Jewish Democratic Council of America’s 2024 Leadership Summit, May 20, 2024. Fetterman was one of seven Democratic senators to oppose resolutions to block weapon sales to Israel (Credit: Jewish Democratic Council of America)
March 5, 2026, 10:06 am
Fetterman on Iranian leaders: ‘Just keep killing them’
"Hopefully they’ll pick someone that realizes that they need to live and coexist in peace in the region and stop trying to destroy Israel and destabilize the region."
By JNS Staff
A person wears a t-shirt with images of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest in New York against the war in Iran on March 2, 2026. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)
March 4, 2026, 4:40 pm
A new war revives some old tropes about Jewish and Israeli influence
Accusations that Israel steered U.S. policy on Iran revive memories of the “neocon” controversy that shadowed the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Israeli security and rescue forces operate at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran struck Beit Shemesh, central Israel, causing extensive destruction and killing at least nine people, March 1, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 4, 2026, 1:24 pm
A war for something
What is most striking about this war is not the fear. It is the clarity.
By Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
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