Endorsing Hitler by Name: Iran's State Media Drops Its Line Between Judaism and Zionism
On October 6, the eve of the third anniversary of October 7, the clerical daily Jomhouri-ye Eslami ran an unsigned editorial that opens with an invented Hitler speech and endorses his view of the Jews by name. It sits within a wider October pattern that includes an IRGC-affiliated campaign against the name Khazar for the Caspian, a circulating Holocaust-denial video and front pages casting Azerbaijan as a Zionist project. We assess with high confidence that the regime's claimed distinction between Judaism and Zionism is collapsing in its own media, though no central directive has been identified. An Iran Dossier special report for October 15, 2026.