Iran Week: Hard Reporting on the World's Most Dangerous Regime

Plus: Tablet’s summer reading list; Putin’s attacks on Ukraine send a message to America; the role of rabbis in the pulpit [View this email in your browser]( This week in Tablet: a series of reported pieces about the repressive theocratic regime in Iran, which has benefited economically and strategically from the Iran Deal yet continues its brutal repressive tactics against dissidents and gays at home, and supports a truly astounding variety of murderous clients abroad while clinging to the openly genocidal goal of eliminating the Jewish state. Check our [Iran Week]( page daily for new stories. Is Israel [catching up too late to a major strategic threat from Iran]( Judith Miller reports from the Herzilya security conference on how the Jewish state is confronting the possibility of a new front—or two—in its ongoing conflict with a hostile regional power on the rise. A U.N.-backed environmental group claims it is [planting trees on the Lebanese-Israeli border](. The IDF says Iran-backed Hezbollah is using the NGO to establish viewing stations over Israel. Tony Badran looks into the controversy. Scott Abramson explores Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s astonishing and paradoxical account of his 1963 travels in the Holy Land, [‘The Israeli Republic,’]( which paints a portrait of an Iranian intellectual who inspired the Islamic Revolution—and admired Israel. A visceral and first-hand account of [Iran’s intolerance of homosexuality]( and other minority sexual identities, in depth, by leading Iranian-Canadian activist Arsham Parsi. Are [North Korea and Iran cooperating]( to build long-range weapons of mass destruction? Anthony Cordesman gives a thorough assessment of the state of public knowledge of this dangerous alliance. [Still to come this week]( Hassan Dai explores how Trita Parsi and NIAC used the Obama White House to advance Iran’s agenda. Emanuele Ottolenghi dives into Boeing’s strangely timed contract to sell planes to Iran in the wake of the Iran Nuclear Agreement. And Tablet foreign policy columnist Lee Smith looks at American media coverage of Iran, and the ways U.S. news gets it right—and wrong. Finally, Majid Rafizadeh pens a paean to Iran’s Jews: the few who remain, and who say, “I want to die in my homeland.” Plus: Tablet’s summer [reading list]( Putin’s [attacks on Ukraine]( send a message to America; the role of [rabbis in the pulpit]( and [more]( Copyright © 2017 Tablet Magazine, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at our website, www.tabletmag.com. Our mailing address is: Tablet Magazine 37 West 28th Street 8th FloorNew York, NY 10001 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](