Iran ‘RISE UP’? Protests sweep Iran on November 15-16
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Iranian mobile networks appeared to go offline on Saturday night amid rising protests in Iran. Videos from across the country showed security forces firing tear gas, […]
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Whoops: A billboard in Shiraz, Iran, appears to commemorate Israeli soldiers
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a stunning failure of using an illustrative photo for a billboard in Iran, a group of Israeli soldiers appear next to a poem in Shiraz, […]
Psagot wines are rooted in Jewish history
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Yaakov Berg tells a story about the Baron Edmund de Rothschild. Rothschild invested massively in wine production in Europe and also in Ottoman Palestine in the […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 