By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 November 2025

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2025

In mid-November 2023, just six weeks after the Iran/HAMAS pogrom in Israel on 7 October 2023, Gianni Vernetti wrote a brief article for the Italian publication La Repubblica reflecting on the corruption of the entire United Nations system that had been revealed by the organisation’s reaction. A rough translation of the article is given below.
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 May 2025

Muhammad al-Sudani has been Iraq’s Prime Minister since October 2022. He was installed at Iran’s behest after a year-long political logjam following the 2021 Iraqi elections. The political fronts for Iran’s terrorist-militias lost those elections, but Tehran picked the Prime Minister anyway.