Nova festival survivor: Make Iran pay for its murders all over the globe

The Iranian regime is obsessive: It obsessively hates Israel and the United States, it obsessively persecutes women, and it obsessively targets dissidents, Jews and politicians abroad.Even as the Revolutionary Islamic Government’s proxy forces falter, sapping the mullahs’ supposed strength, they show no signs of giving up their fixations. That is why the United States must take up an obsession of its own — one that applies maximum pressure on Iran.On Nov.

8, three men were charged in a New York court in connection with an Iranian attempt to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former National Security Adviser John Bolton have also been on Iran’s hit list.In late October, the regime executed Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, an Iranian dissident who was a citizen of Germany and a US resident.

Sharmahd was abducted in 2020 during a layover in Dubai, taken to Iran and imprisoned on specious charges.It wasn’t Germany’s first brush with the Iranian regime’s nasty habit of targeting dissidents outside its borders.In 1992, at Tehran’s behest, three members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and a supporter were murdered at a restaurant in Berlin.This has been the regime’s practice since it first came to power.In 1980, via an American convert to Islam, the mullahs carried out the assassination of regime critic Ali Akbar Tabatabai at his home in Maryland.In 1994, Tehran masterminded a terrorist attack on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring more than 300 others.In 2019, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deceived Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian dissident living in France, into going to Iraq, ostensibly to speak with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.

There he was arrested by Iraqi officials, handed over to the IRGC and taken to Iran, where he was hanged.One scholar who maintains a database of Iran’s operations abroad has counted 10...