Tea at Trianon: Iran’s Global Anti-Jewish Jihad Continues

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, September 5, 2025

Iran’s Global Anti-Jewish Jihad Continues

From It Can Always Get Worse:

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on 26 August that his government was designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the praetorians of the Islamic Revolution that rules Iran and the instrument by which the Revolution is exported, as a terrorist organisation. Albanese also suspended the activities of the Australian Embassy in Tehran, and declared Iran’s ambassador to Australia Ahmad Sadeghi and three other Iranian officials persona non grata, ordering them to leave within a week.
This is a notable development, not simply because it is the first time since the Second World War that Australia has expelled a foreign ambassador.1 In February 2023, about nine months into Albanese’s premiership, a Senate inquiry into the behaviour of the Iranian regime recommended that Australia designate the IRGC. Albanese’s Labor government kept silent for more than six months, before rejecting most of the Senate’s recommendations, specifically the call to list the IRGC as a terrorist organisation, under a strange legal theory that looked even stranger after the IRGC’s Palestinian units raped, slaughtered, and abducted 1,450 Israelis on 7 October 2023, and the Albanese government designated those units individually.
Many Australians—in Parliament, in the press, and among the IRGC’s victims, including Kylie Moore-Gilbert—were critical of Labor’s decision against listing the IRGC in 2023 and the issue became a serious point of contention in Australian politics, with more and more voices demanding that Albanese reverse course. He refused, until last week. (Read more.)