Iran's regime praises DC terrorist who killed American, Israeli embassy staffers

[ad_1] JERUSALEM – The newspaper for the rogue regime of Iranian Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei praised the person who allegedly murdered an American and Israeli Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C., calling him "our expensive brother."

Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old Chicago man , allegedly informed police and witnesses he gunned down Sarah Milgrim, a 26-year-old American from Kansas, and her 30-year-old Israeli boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, "for Palestine...for Gaza."

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"Our expensive brother Elias Rodriguez, who killed two Israelis within the U.S., has based the Washington Basij," the newspaper wrote Saturday. The Basij is an Iranian para-military group that's assigned to crush all dissent in opposition to Khamenei’s ironclad rule.

The fiercely anti-American editor of Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari, requested : "Any information of our expensive brother Elias Rodriguez, who despatched two Zionist wild animals in Washington to hell with a bullet?"

The Iranian media’s glorification of the murders shocked even longtime regime watchers.

"Iran brazenly requires terror assaults in opposition to Israel on U.S. soil. Kayhan, the mouthpiece of Supreme Chief Khamenei, praises the assault on Israeli embassy employees in Washington DC — considered one of whom was an American citizen — calling the killer the founding father of the "Washington Basij," Iran’s brutal militia, Israel’s Overseas Ministry spokesman, Oren Marmorstein, wrote on X . "Unfathomable."

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The timing of the Khamenei-controlled newspaper's editorial coincided with a report from Israel Hayom that the Trump administration is weighing the acceptance of an interim nuclear settlement with Iran. A senior U.S. official informed the Israeli paper that the partial deal would imply Iran would abandon pursuit of nuclear weapons in trade for restricted sanctions reduction.

Nonetheless, the clerical regime has repeatedly insisted it could never abandon the right to complement uranium, which might allow Tehran to construct an atomic bomb. Iran’s regime has been designated a number one state-sponsor of terrorism for the reason that mid-Nineteen Eighties by the U.S. authorities.

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Vatan-e-Emrooz, a newspaper managed by the U.S.-designated terrorist group Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, additionally glorified the assassinations of the pair, who had been employees staff on the Israeli embassy.

"These repulsive newspaper articles are a reminder that the Iranian regime is the main state-sponsor of antisemitism," Jason Brodsky, coverage director of United In opposition to Nuclear Iran (UANI), informed Fox Information Digital. "Kayhan previously has printed articles praising Hitler, so the praising of the homicide of two Israeli embassy staff, together with a Jewish American, ought to sadly come as no shock."

Elias Rodriguez, the 31-year-old suspect accused of capturing two Israeli Embassy staffers on Wednesday, Could 21, in Washington D.C. (Instagram/@shinewithIsrael)

Brodsky stated the media statements present that the regime can't be trusted, and that the Trump administration must be cautious when it holds talks to commerce sanctions reduction for a pledge to not pursue nuclear weapons.

"The true face of the Islamic Republic is represented by these articles, not its smiling diplomats on the negotiating tables of Oman and Rome," he stated.

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Iranian-born Israeli Beni Sabti, an knowledgeable on Iran and a analysis fellow for the Institute for Nationwide Safety Research, informed Fox Information Digital the specter of terror from his homeland is directed on the U.S.

"It is essential that Individuals perceive that the fear can also be or principally in opposition to them," he stated.

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Sabti added that Vatan-e-Emrooz message of assist of the murders means "the capturing was revenge by that man and likewise within the Islamic custom that Elias is the prophet Eliyahoo, who killed many infidels, so it is a sort of phrase that Elias is a person of God when he killed these staff of the embassy."

Benjamin Weinthal experiences on Israel , Iran , Syria , Turkey and Europe. You may observe Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal, and e-mail him at benjamin.weinthal@fox.com