A recent report in MEMRI highlighted how media outlets associated with the Iranian regime are glorifying the terror attack in Washington, DC, which resulted in the murder of two staffers at the Israeli Embassy.
By Rachel Avraham
According to a recent report in MEMRI, “Two days after the May 22, 2025 murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers, one of them an American, at a Jewish event at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., the Iranian daily Kayhan, which is the mouthpiece of the Iranian regime and of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, praised assassin Elias Rodriguez, calling him “our dear brother” for shooting “two wild Zionist beasts in Washington and sending them to Hell.””
MEMRI reported, “The same day, May 24, Iranian TV also celebrated the murders, dubbing Rodriguez “the American Yahya Sinwar” who had sent “two Zionist dogs” to Hell. The program host stressed that the event marked the establishment of an additional branch of the Iranian resistance in the U.S.”
“Kayhan stated that Rodriguez’s terror operation heralds “the declaration of a branch of the Basij” the paramilitary organization subjugate to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), in the heart of Washington, the American capital,” MEMRI noted. “It also called for further terror operations of this kind on U.S. soil, labeling Rodriguez’s attack “a good and desirable beginning before God.””
In an article titled “Basij Washington,” Kayhan declared: “He said: How is our dear brother Elias Rodriguez, who shot two wild Zionists beasts in Washington and sent them to Hell? I said: Good for him. [This] is a good and desirable beginning before God. They say that the Basij Washington [branch] declared its existence by virtue of this revolutionary operation.”
According to Kayhan, “He said: After assassinating the two Zionists, this brother Basij member stood bravely and completely coolly while being handcuffed, and called loudly ‘Free, free Palestine!’… He said: Kristi Noem, the American homeland security secretary, expressed profound concern about this incident, and said that it is not impossible that such actions will become a recurring pattern. He said: A guy stood at a well and said over and over, ‘Four, four, four…’ Someone approached him and asked him, What are you saying? The man pushed him into the well and said ‘Five, five, five…””
According to MEMRI, “On May 24, 2025, Iran’s Channel Two celebrated the murder of the two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington in a “martyrdom operation carried out by Rodriguez, the American Yahya Sinwar.” Calling the terror operation on U.S. soil “a new axis of resistance [that] has been born,” the program host crowned Rodriguez an emissary of the ideology of the Islamic revolution that is being spread worldwide by the Iranian regime. He described Rodriguez as an American hero who, with his operation of murder, had dared to defy President Trump’s sympathy for Israel. Against the backdrop of footage from the film “12 Years a Slave” and from police dispersion of pro-Palestinian campus protests in the U.S., and other scenes, the show host lionized Rodriguez’s act as a continuation of courageous activity against anti-Black and other forms of oppression in the U.S.”
MEMRI concluded, “In recent years, the Iranian regime has been flooding the West, and especially U.S. universities with the ideology of the Islamic Revolution, according to which action must be taken against the pro-Israel American authorities who, it maintains, are promoting racism against blacks and Muslims.”
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