Intentionally or not, the US's capture of Maduro is a threat to Iran's regime - analysis

Regardless if a message was meant for Iran by capturing Maduro, Iran is already feeling the sting.

An Iranian crosses a street next to a billboard bearing the portrait of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a quote reads in Persian 'Sing Oh Iran' at the Enqelab Square in Tehran on July, 9, 2025.(photo credit: AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Whether US President Donald Trump and his administration intended or not to add a warning to the Iranian regime as a side effect to Saturday's capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Islamic Regime officials will likely interpret the US military operation as such.

Iran, a longtime ally of Venezuela, has been suffering from civil unrest since Sunday amid a dramatically weakening rial, water shortages, and a regime with a weakened image after the 12-day war with the US and Israel. Riots and protests have persisted as the Islamic regime has cracked down, but in

La caída del régimen de Assad: un golpe dramático al Eje de Resistencia de Irán

Ali Khamenei y Bashar al Assad Foto: Khamenei.ir CC BY 4.0 vía Wikimedia Commons

En retrospectiva, las eliminaciones de figuras importantes de Hezbollah y líderes de la Fuerza Quds en Líbano y Siria socavaron dramáticamente la capacidad del Eje de Resistencia de Irán para ayudar al Ejército sirio, sellando probablemente el destino del régimen de Assad.

Sin Assad y con un Hezbollah debilitado, Irán se verá obligado a recalcular su estrategia y posiblemente incluso reconsiderar su enfoque nuclear para “compensar” el duro golpe a su eje.

‘America should never stop transferring arms to its closest ally’

Former U.S. official Elliott Abrams, chairman of the Tikvah Fund, called the Hamas massacre a "wake-up call that Biden's Iran policy has failed."

Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom

U.S. special envoy for Iran and Venezuela Elliott Abrams testifies during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on U.S. Policy in the Middle East on Capitol Hill, Sept. 24, 2020, Washington, D.C. Credit: Susan Walsh-Pool/via Getty Images.

Elliott Abrams, who served as a senior official in previous Republican administrations and whose last role was enforcing sanctions on the Iranian regime during the Trump administration, opposes delays in U.S. arms shipments to Israel.

“I don’t know what and how much has been held up, but it shouldn’t have happened. The level of delay should be zero,” Abrams tells Israel Hayom in an exclusive interview in the wake of the recent clash between the Biden administration and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump: Tuve una mala experiencia con Netanyahu

En una amplia entrevista con la revista Time, Donald Trump lanzó duras palabras para el primer ministro Benjamín Netanyahu, pero promete “proteger a Israel” si es reelegido en noviembre.

El 7 de octubre “sucedió bajo su mandato”, señaló Trump, añadiendo que Netanyahu ha sido criticado con razón por no impedir el ataque de Hamás.

“Tienen el equipo más sofisticado”, dijo Trump sobre Israel. “Lo habían hecho, todo estaba ahí para detener eso. Y mucha gente lo sabía, ya sabes, miles y miles de personas lo sabían, pero Israel no lo sabía, y creo que se le está culpando muy fuertemente por eso, se le está culpando”.

Trump también dijo que tuvo una “mala experiencia” con Netanyahu, acusándolo de abandonar la operación estadounidense para matar al líder de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica, Qassam Soleimani, en enero de 2020.

Habrían frustrado el mes pasado atentado iraní contra embajada de Israel en un país de África

Enlace Judío – Varios agentes iraníes habrían vigilado las embajadas de Israel, EE. UU. y Emiratos Árabes Unidos en un país en el oriente de África para un aparente ataque terrorista, antes de ser presuntamente detenidos el mes pasado.

Los agentes habrían sido enviados por Irán para recopilar información de inteligencia sobre los sitios para un potencial ataque terrorista, de acuerdo con la cadena pública israelí Kan, que citó fuentes de inteligencia occidentales.

Algunos habrían tenido doble ciudadanía europea e iraní, y algunos habrían sido arrestados en el país que no fue nombrado por las fuentes, mientras que otros habrían sido detenidos en diferentes países.

As it hopes for long-term truce, Israel prepares new battle doctrine for Gaza

Fresh capabilities, in addition to re-evaluating offense and defense, are coming into play in the IDF, which assumes that in five years, its enemies will possess much greater abilities.

BY YAAKOV LAPPIN

Palestinian homes in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 28, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

(January 4, 2021 / JNS) In the final days of 2020, the Israel Defense Forces released its annual figures for the year, and the data revealed that the Gaza Strip remains the least stable and most explosive arena in Israel’s environs.

While the Hamas regime in Gaza and its terror army, the Izz ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, are unlikely to initiate war with Israel at this time—preferring instead to preserve Hamas’s rule by seeking economic relief and coping with the coronavirus

The US and Israel Prepare for Iranian Revenge

Remains of the vehicle containing Qassem Soleimani following air strike, January 3, 2020, image via Wikimedia Commons

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,863, January 1, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Moments before Donald Trump leaves the White House, Iran may try to avenge the killing of Qassem Soleimani and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The Gulf States are prepared, and they expect American protection.

On January 20, 2021, President Donald Trump is slated to exit the scene and perhaps even the stage of history—but Iran remains. Its leaders took hard hits from Trump during his tenure, but worst of all is the way he humiliated them in the eyes of the world. The ayatollahs held on despite everything Trump threw at them, but

Israeli submarine reportedly crosses Suez Canal in ‘message’ to Iran

Vessel said to have surfaced and faced Persian Gulf, in show of force amid threats over killing of nuclear scientist; in similar move, US sub crosses Straight of Hormuz.

By TOI STAFF and AFP

Illustrative: An Israeli military submarine sails past cargo ships in the Mediterranean Sea, Israel, September 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

An Israeli submarine openly crossed the Suez Canal last week, in a show of force against Iran, the Kan public broadcaster reported Monday night.

The move was approved by Egypt, according to the report, which cited Arab intelligence sources.

The submarine reportedly surfaced and faced the Persian Gulf, which lies on the other side of Saudi Arabia. The intelligence sources said the move was meant to

Russian Political Analyst: It Would Not Be a Negative Thing for Iran to Develop Nuclear Weapons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVYv2mzjBXo

Louis Farrakhan: "Mr. Trump Killed My Brother Soleimani, Mrs. Clinton Killed My Brother Qaddafi"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGMoe2Ws3lo&feature=share

Post-Soleimani, Russia’s Role Will Grow in Iran’s Geopolitical Thinking

Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani, photo via Office of the President of Russia

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,481, March 12, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US-Iran relations reached a nadir following the killing by US drone strike of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. As Iran’s isolation grows, its link to Russia is likely to strengthen. Moscow can use Iran’s geopolitical weakness to its own economic advantage by making large sales of Russian military hardware to the Islamic Republic and encouraging deeper cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union and Tehran. At the same time, Russia will use the death of Soleimani to constrain Iranian troop activities on the Syrian battlefield and will generally limit Damascus’s dependence on Iran.

Iran’s undivided and indivisible regime

This week, we saw the true face of the Iranian regime at home and abroad.

For forty years, Western policymakers have been lying to themselves about the nature of the Iranian regime and basing their Iran policies on the lies they tell themselves. The main lie has been that there is an ongoing, existential struggle for power and control within the ranks of the regime’s leadership.

Manifestantes iraquíes continúan las protestas pese a la represión del gobierno

AP / Hadi Mizban

BAGDAD, Irak – Las fuerzas de seguridad dispararon en vivo para despejar los focos de protesta en Bagdad y en el sur de Irak por segundo día, el domingo, lo que provocó enfrentamientos con los manifestantes decididos a mantener su movimiento.

La violencia ha resurgido en la capital y en el sur, de mayoría chiíta, esta semana, con más de 15 personas muertas mientras los activistas antigubernamentales aumentaban los cierres de carreteras y las sentadas mientras las fuerzas de seguridad intentaban sofocar la campaña.

After Tehran’s rogue behavior, European nations edge towards reimposing UN sanctions on Iran

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi cautioned that “if the Europeans continue the path of surrendering to the U.S. or want to abuse the dispute mechanism, they should prepare to accept the consequences and these consequences have been reminded to them before.”

BY JACKSON RICHMAN

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends a U.N. Security Council meeting on Iran at the United Nations in New York City on Dec. 12, 2018. Credit: State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha/Public Domain.

(January 14, 2020 / JNS) The United Kingdom, Germany and France on Tuesday took the first step towards reimposing U.N. sanctions on Iran, accusing it of violating the 2015 nuclear deal.

Por Qué No Habrá Guerra Entre Irán Y Los Estados Unidos

El asesinato político del general iraní Qasem Soleimani por parte de los Estados Unidos y el reciente derribo de un avión civil ucraniano por parte de Irán –“por error”, según aseguran las autoridades iraníes- han vuelto a encender las alarmas en Oriente Medio ante el temor a una escalada militar de impredecibles consecuencias, aunque los vaticinios de una guerra abierta entre los Estados Unidos e Irán deben descartarse al menos por ahora.

Estados Unidos ha querido señalar al mundo de que Irán es culpable por sus conexiones con el terrorismo internacional y por su intromisión permanente en los asuntos de sus vecinos, pero especialmente en Irak, Israel, Líbano y Siria. El asesinato del coordinador de las redes terroristas de Irán en el exterior, el difunto Soleimani, es un mensaje claro y rotundo a Teherán.

This Iranian Speaks the Truth

Iranians are not what so many people think they are. They are a very ancient culture, and only part of the country can be classified as radicalized Muslims. Iran used to be a very different kind of country – that is until 1979. That was the big turning point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C888mSyD7s&feature=emb_logo

Israeli intel helped US assassinate Iranian general Soleimani, report claims

News report claims Israel helped the U.S. confirm a tip from informants at the airport in the Syrian capital of Damascus on the whereabouts of the Iranian figure.

General Qassem Soleiman (Wikipedia/http://farsi.khamenei.ir/photo-album?id=41944#i/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode))

Israeli intelligence helped US assassinate top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, report says

Israeli intelligence helped the United States in its mission to assassinate top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

Ex príncipe heredero de Irán predice caída del régimen de Teherán “en meses”

El heredero de la monarquía depuesta de Irán, Reza Pahlavi, predijo el miércoles que el régimen clerical se derrumbará dentro de meses e instó a las potencias occidentales a no negociar con él.

Pahlavi dijo que las grandes protestas que estallaron en noviembre y de nuevo este mes, tras el derribo accidental de un avión de pasajeros ucraniano, le recordaron el levantamiento que derrocó a su padre a principios de 1979.

Soleimani Killing Hailed by Arabs—But Not by Palestinians

Qassem Soleimani, photo by Mahmoud Hosseini via Wikimedia Commons

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,395, January 7, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani is being celebrated across the Arab world by Muslims who were cruelly victimized by him in the service of Iran’s imperialist ambitions. The Palestinians’ fulsome praise for Soleimani and accompanying support for Iran are raising eyebrows across the Arab world.

The attack on the US embassy in Baghdad was the latest in an ongoing series of Iranian provocations in the region. An American drone was shot down in the Persian Gulf in October, and there have been attacks on Saudi oil fields and oil tankers near Oman.

No te dejes engañar por la insignificante venganza de Irán por Soleimani

Por: Shimrit Meir / En: Ynet News / Traducción de Noticias de Israel

La débil represalia de Irán el miércoles por la muerte del general Qassem Soleimani, cuando lanzó ataques con misiles contra las tropas de Estados Unidos en Irak, fue un paso importante que no se puede exagerar, puesto que cruzó una barrera psicológica.

El régimen de Teherán sacó a las calles a cientos de miles de personas para el funeral de Soleimani que duró varios días y que culminó con tal locura que decenas de personas murieron pisoteadas, pero su venganza por la muerte de su general más favorecido, a pesar de la retórica, no fue más que un esfuerzo simbólico.