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Emily Schrader, host of \u201cAxis of Truth.\u201d Photo by Nim Gluckman.<\/p>\n
In 2023, Schrader began meeting more intensely with lawmakers worldwide urging them to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n
Writing for Ynet in March 2023, Schrader said that \u201cas a feminist, an Israeli, an American, and a journalist, I am the epitome of everything the Islamic Republic despises and wants to destroy. Even more problematic for them, their own people are standing with me. … Over the past six months, I\u2019ve amassed a following of over 70,000 Iranians inside Iran, and thousands more in the Iranian diaspora as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schrader said that she had become the target of numerous online attacks, and had been accused of working for the Mossad and the Jewish state. Iranian regime supporters posted pictures of her online with the graphic of a rifle scope site overlaying her head.<\/p>\n
The enemies list law sends a disturbing message to those on the list. The 61 individuals are now categorized as \u201chostile instruments of the enemy,\u201d a designation that has historically preceded kidnapping and assassination plots outside Iran, according to the Flack report.<\/p>\n
The message to Iranians who contemplate contacting those listed is still more chilling. The law provides wide latitude for the Iranian authorities to sweep up whomever it considers a threat. It converts \u201cordinary journalistic, civic and online contact into serious felonies by executive fiat,\u201d the report said. \u201cLegally, the instrument completes the conversion of Iran\u2019s information space into criminal jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone with a smartphone forwarding a protest video to an anti-regime site, such as Iran International, or posting a reply to an IDF post in Farsi faces a two-to-five-year term and possibly a capital charge, it said.<\/p>\n
A prosecutorial feature<\/p>\n
The list lumps journalists, Nobel laureates, think tanks and human rights groups together with armed Sunni jihadists. <\/p>\n
This \u201cdeliberate flattening,\u201d or erasing of the distinction between Jaish al-Adl, a jihadist group, and BBC Persian, and between Islamic State\u2013Khorasan Province and PEN America, is the document\u2019s chief characteristic, the report said. \u201c[I]t is a prosecutorial feature rather than drafting carelessness: it lets any court treat contact with a journalist as the legal equivalent of contact with a terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
The law should be seen in the context of Iran\u2019s killing spree that started last year. Iran\u2019s regime executed more than 1,000 people in the first nine months of 2025, the United Nations reported in October of that year. <\/p>\n
\u201cWith an average of more than nine hangings per day in recent weeks, Iran appears to be conducting executions at an industrial scale that defies all accepted standards of human rights protection,\u201d U.N. experts said in the October 2025 report.<\/p>\n
This is not to speak of the 40,000 summarily executed in the streets of Iran during mass protests at the end of 2025 into early 2026.<\/p>\n
The espionage law was a direct result of Israel\u2019s 12-day war (\u201cOperation Rising Lion\u201d) in June 2025. The day after the ceasefire on June 25, 2025, Iran\u2019s parliament outlined a plan to stiffen penalties for espionage and collaboration \u201cwith the Zionist regime and hostile countries against national security and interests.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alireza Salimi, a prominent Iranian cleric and politician, said \u201cany intelligence or espionage activity or practical action\u201d that favors Israel, the United States and others could be considered Efsad fel-arz\u2014\u201ccorruption on Earth\u201d\u2014an offense that carries the death penalty, Al Jazeera reported at the time.<\/p>\n
What emerges from the lists is the seriousness with which Iran takes Israel as a threat. The list of \u201chostile virtual pages\u201d includes \u201cthe entire digital presence of the Israeli state, every ministry, embassy and representative office, on every platform, in a single clause,\u201d the Flack report said.<\/p>\n
It is a candid admission by Iran of the danger posed by Israel\u2019s information operations. By publishing its own threat map, Iran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence has revealed the scale of its fear of open information and Israeli public diplomacy, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 17, 2026 \/ JNS) Under a law meant to crack down on those cooperating with Israel and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-546296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}