In 1993, Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn starred in a pretty awful avant-garde movie called Boxing Helena. As the movie progressed, the psychotic obsession an Atlanta surgeon had for his neighbor resulted in amputating both her legs, and then, her arms so that she would be completely under his control. It was a horrible movie,...
The Middle East is now nine days into the war that the region and the world dreaded, with no real change in position — yet. The IDF continues to rack up successful missions in Iran, while the Iranians keep playing musical chairs at the top of their military and regime org charts. The Iranians did...
He can run, but Ali Khamenei can’t hide forever — from the Israelis, certainly. But Iran’s ‘supreme leader’ may have more to fear from the remnants of his own regime. In the past 24 hours, Israel has reportedly stepped up efforts to take Khamenei off the board, euphemistically or otherwise. Strikes in an area of...
Developments continue apace in Israel and Iran, where the two bitter enemies will enter their fourth day of war. Earlier today, news reports had the Iranians asking erstwhile intermediaries to pressure Israel into cease-fire negotiations, albeit on the same terms as before — with Iran maintaining its nuclear enrichment programs and with the usual “Death...
Iran’s Supreme Leader has expressed doubt that nuclear talks with the US will lead to a new agreement, saying it had made “excessive and outrageous” demands on uranium enrichment. “We don’t think it will lead to any outcome. We don’t know what will happen,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. US President Donald Trump said last week...