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The Death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Fate of the Islamic Republic

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 March 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Ali Khamenei, Benjamin Netanyahu, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, Donald Trump, espionage, Hassan Nasrallah, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, Mohammad Pakpour, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Shah, spies, terrorism, United States on March 1, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

What the Captured Documents in Gaza Tell Us About HAMAS’s Relationship with the “Humanitarian” NGOs

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 February 2026

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Israel and tagged Abu Islam, academics, al-Qaeda, Al-Qassam Brigades, Alaa Hassan Abdullah Asbihi, Alger Hiss, Antisemitism, antizionism, Ayman Rouqa, Branch of Foreign Associations, Britain, charity, Christianity, Conny Lenneberg, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, Division of Foreign Activity, Doctors Without Borders, espionage, Ethel Rosenberg, Fadi al-Wadiya, Fadi Jihad Mohammed al-Wadiya, Francesca Albanese, Gaza, Gaza European Hospital, Gaza War, Guantanamo Bay, HAMAS, human rights activists, humanitarian NGOs, IDF, Intelligence, international law, interrogation, IRGC, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Islamists, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israel Security Agency, jihadism, jihadists, journalists, Julius Rosenberg, Kamal al-Adwan Hospital, Kataib Izzadeen al-Qassam, KGB, Khalil El-Halabi, Kim Philby, liberalism, MAAN Development Centre, Médecins Sans Frontières, media, Mohammad el-Halabi, Mohammed Akram Abdullah al-Kafarna, Mohammed Khalil Mehdi, Mohammed Khalil Mohammed el-Halabi, MSF, Muslim Brotherhood, NGOs, non-governmental organisations, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Nursing Association, Palestinian Territories, Palestinians, PIJ, political prisoners, political warfare, press, provocation, Rafah Brigade, Samir Suleiman Abu Shawish, SHABAK, Shin Bet, Simchat Torah pogrom, Soviet Union, spies, Spy War, terrorism, terrorists, Tim Costello, torture, UNDP, United Kingdom, United Nations, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, VENONA, World Vision, World Vision Gaza, World Vision International, Yabna Battalion, Zionism, Zionists on February 25, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The “Whites” in the Russian Civil War Were Not Monarchists

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 February 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1905 Revolution, Admiral Kolchak, Aleksandr Kolchak, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Kolchak, Alexey Kaledin, Allies, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Armed Forces of South Russia, Ataman, Baltics, Black Army, Black Baron, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Bourbons, Britain, Central Powers, Communism, communists, Constituent Assembly, Constitutional Democrats, Cossacks, Czechoslovak Legion, David Lloyd George, democracy, Dimitry Lehovich, Directory, Dobrarmiya, Dobrovolcheskaya Armiya, Don Cossack Host, Don Cossacks, Don Host, Entente, Estonia, ethnic nationalists, ethno-nationalists, Evan Mawdsley, Finland, Finns, First World War, France, General Alfred Knox, Germany, Great War, Hetman, Ice March, ideology, Imperial Russia, Jews, Kadets, Kazakhstan, Kuban, Lavr Kornilov, liberal democrat, liberalism, liberals, Mensheviks, Mikhail Alekseev, Mikhail Alekseyev, Mikhail Rodzianko, Mitteleuropa, monarchism, monarchists, Napoleon Bonaparte, nationalism, nepredreshenchestvo, Nikolai Iudenich, Nikolai Yudenich, non-predetermination, Northwestern Army, Octobrist Party, Octobrists, oriyentatsiya, patriotism, Pavlo Skoropadsky, Peter Kenez, Peter Krasnov, Peter Wrangel, politics, propaganda, Provisional All-Russian Government, Provisional Government, Provisional Siberian Government, Pyotr Krasnov, Pyotr Wrangel, Randstaatenpolitik, Reds, Republic, republicanism, Richard Pipes, Russia, Russian Civil War, separatists, Siberia, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Sovdepia, SRs, Symon Petliura, terrorism, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Tsarism, Union of 17 October, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, White Armies, White Guards, White Movement, Whites, Woodrow Wilson on February 12, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

“Damned Lies and Statistics”, Al-Qaeda Edition

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 February 2026

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy and tagged 9/11, 9/11 Commission Report, Africa, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab, al-Shabab, AQAP, AQIM, Australia, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, caliphate, Global War on Terror, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, ideology, Intelligence, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Khaled Shaykh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting, Osama bin Laden, September 11, September 11 attacks, Somalia, strategy, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, United Nations, United States, Usama bin Laden, Yemen on February 9, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Suffering of the Israeli Hostages Taken By HAMAS

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 February 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Alex Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Alon Ohel, Amit Soussana, Antisemitism, Ariel Bibas, Ariel Cunio, Avinatan Or, Bar Kupershtein, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bibas family, Carmel Gat, Dafna Elyakim, David Cunio, disinformation, Eden Yerushalmi, Eitan Avraham Mor, Eitan Horn, Elkana Bohbot, Evyatar David, Gali Berman, Gaza War, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, HAMAS, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, hostages, Ilana Gritzewsky, Iran, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Kfir Bibas, kidnapping, Maksym Harkin, Matan Angrest, Matan Zangauker, Maya Regev, Nimrod Cohen, Nova Music Festival, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Omer Wenkert, Omri Miran, Ori Danino, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PIJ, Pro-Palestine Movement, Pro-Palestinian Movement, psychological torture, Ran Gvili, rape as a weapon of war, Rom Braslavski, Romi Gonen, Sasha Troufanov, Segev Kalfon, sexual assault, sexual violence, Shiri Bibas, Simchat Torah pogrom, starvation, Tal Shoham, terrorism, torture, tunnels, war crimes, Yosef Haim Ohana, Yosef Ohana, Ziv Berman on February 3, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Khomeini Orchestrated the 1979 Hostage Crisis Because Iranian-American Relations Were Going Too Well

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Algerian Revolution, Anwar al-Sadat, ARAMCO, Ayatollah Khomeini, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bruce Laingen, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, clergy, Communism, communists, Cultural Revolution, den of spies, Donald Trump, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, Ebrahim Yazdi, EFPs, Egypt, Ettela’at, Frantz Fanon, George W. Bush, Gharbzadegi, Henry Kissinger, hezbollahi, Hichi, hizballahi, Hossein Ali Montazeri, Ibrahim Yazdi, Imam, international law, Iran, Iran hostage crisis, Iran-Contra Affair, Iran-Iraq War, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Islamic Republican Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Islamists, Israel, Jimmy Carter, John Brennan, Khobar Towers bombing, komitehs, Lebanon, Liberation Movement of Iran, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Beheshti, Mohammad Khatami, Mohammad Mosaddeq, Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohsen Mirdamadi, MOIS, mostazafeen, MSFIL, Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line, Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini Line, Operation EAGLE CLAW, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, Rahbar-e Moazzam, Ronald Reagan, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salman Rushdie, SALT II, Saudi Arabia, Shah, Shahriar Shafiq, Shi’a militias, Supreme Leader, terrorism, The Satanic Verses, theocracy, United States, VEVAK, Westoxification, William Sullivan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Zionism, Zionists on January 26, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

How the Palestinians Enabled the Islamic Revolution in Iran

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Abu Hassan, al-Qaeda, Albania, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Hassan Salameh, Ali Reza Sepasi, Amal movement, Anis Naccache, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Anthony Parsons, anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, antizionism, Anwar al-Sadat, Artesh, Asadollah Alam, Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, Ayatollah Muhammad Beheshti, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Colonel Qaddafi, Communism, Cuba, DDR, Dhofar Liberation Front, Dhofar Rebellion, disinformation, East Germany, Eastern Bloc, Enver Hoxha, espionage, FATAH, Fedayeen-e-Khalq, Fidel Castro, Force 17, Gaza War, German Democratic Republic, Grand Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari, Green Book, HAMAS, Hani al-Hassan, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hosayn Ruhani, Hossein Ruhani, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, ideology, Imad Mughniyeh, Imperial Government, Intelligence, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, Italian Red Brigades, Jalaleddin Farsi, Japanese Red Army, Jews, Jordan, KGB, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mao Zedong, Marine barracks bombing, Marxism, Marxist Mojahedeen, Marxist Mujahideen, MEK, MJTRUST/2, Mohammad Montazeri, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad Saleh Hosseini, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Moscow gold, MOSSAD, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Munich massacre, Musa al-Sadr, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Oman, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, Pasdaran, Pasdaran-e Enghelab, Peykar, PFLP, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, radicalism, Red China, Red Mullah, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, SAVAK, Sazman-e Peykar dar Rah-e Azadi-ye Tabaqe-ye Kargar, Sepah-e Pasdaran, Shah, Shi’a Islam, Shi’ism, Siahkal incident, socialism, South Yemen, Soviet Union, STASI, terrorism, The Organisation of Combat for the Emancipation of the Working Class, The Organisation of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, totalitarianism, Tudeh Party, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, veleyat-e-faqih, Vladimir Lenin, White Revolution, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on January 19, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Trump and Venezuela: Is This “Regime Change”?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy and tagged Ansar Allah, Bay of Piglets, Canada, Cartel de Los Soles, Cartel of the Suns, cartels, Central Intelligence Agency, Chavismo, Chavistas, China, CIA, cocaine, Cold War, colonialism, Communism, corruption, cryptocurrency, Cuba, Cubazuela, Delcy Rodríguez, despotism, DGI, DI, Dirección de Inteligencia, Dirección General de Inteligencia, Donald Trump, drug wars, drugs, Edmundo González, espionage, FARC, fentanyl, Foreign Terrorist Organisations, Fox News, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Greenland, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Honduras, Houthis, Hugo Chavez, Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, J.D. Vance, Jack Keane, John Bolton, Juan Orlando Hernández, Kim Jong-il, Manuel Noriega, María Corina Machado, Marco Rubio, Marxism, narco-terrorism, narcotics, NATO, Nicolas Maduro, Nicolas Maduro Moros, Nobel Peace Prize, oil, Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE, Operation GIDEON, Panama, Proconsul, propaganda, public diplomacy, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, SEBIN, secret police, Sinaloa Cartel, socialism, Specially Designated Global Terrorist, spies, Syria, TdA, terrorism, Tren de Aragua, Venezuela, Victor Manuel Rocha, Vladimir Putin, War on Terror, weapons of mass destructions, WMD, Xi Jinping, Yemen on January 6, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State’s Al-Naba Editorial on the Bondi Hanukkah Massacre

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 December 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Amaq News Agency, Amn al-Kharji, Antisemitism, Australia, Belgium, Bondi Beach, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, Christianity, Christians, Crusaders, Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, Edgar Torres-Tovar, Gaza War, global terrorism, HAMAS, ideology, Intelligence, Internet, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, jihadism, munafiqun, mushrikun, Muslims, nationalism, Naveed Akram, Palestine, Palmyra, populism, Sajid Akram, Sydney, Syria, Tadmur, terrorism, United States, William Howard, William Nathaniel Howard on December 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Can America’s Strikes on Islamic State in Nigeria Lead to a Serious Policy?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 December 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy and tagged Africa, AFRICOM, Borno State, Cameroon, Christianity, France, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, jihadism, Nigeria, Russia, sectarianism, terrorism, West Africa on December 26, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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