Iranian Regime Mouthpiece 'Kayhan' Praises Washington, D.C. Murder Of Israeli Embassy Staffers, Honoring 'Our Dear Brother Elias Rodriguez Who Shot The Two Wild Zionist Beasts... Sending Them To Hell.

Memri

27-05-2025

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."
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. 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."
The statements appeared in the satire section "Conversation," which is under the direct oversight of Hossein Shariatmadari, the newspaper's editor-in-chief and a close associate of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The column, titled "Basij Washington!" stated: "Vengeance against Israel in the heart of America – a young American assassinated two Zionist diplomats."
The following is a translation of the column titled "Basij Washington!" and the MEMRI TV clip of the Iranian TV celebration of the murder of two Israel Embassy staffers in what was described as a "martyrdom operation" carried out by a branch of the Iranian resistance axis.
Kayhan Declares The Establishment Of "Basij Washington"
Under the title "Basij Washington!" the column stated:
"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.
"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..."[1]
Kayhan front page, May 24, 2025, the edition with the column, and the "Basij Washington!" column. Headline reads: "Vengeance against Israel in the heart of America – a young American assassinated two Zionist diplomats" (Source: Kayhan.ir/fa/issue/3273/1)
Iranian TV Celebrates Rodriguez's Terror Operation, Calling Him "American Sinwar" Who "Sent Two Zionist Dogs To Hell"
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.
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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