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Rescue teams have found the wreckage of the helicopter carrying Iran’s hardline President Ebrahim Raisi, known as the “Butcher of Tehran,” with “no signs of life,” in a remote part of the country.
“President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash … unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead,” an official informed Reuters.
Raisi’s helicopter crashed in a secluded mountainous area during hazardous weather, and it took rescuers many hours to locate the crash site.
In the wake of Raisi’s death, attention has shifted to the potential impact on Iran’s government.

Rep. Rich McCormick, a Republican from Georgia, told Newsmax that he holds the belief that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, misled Congress regarding government funding at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
“I do believe on the evidence that we’ve seen that he has lied to Congress,” McCormick conveyed during an interview on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” with guest host Tom Basile.
Fauci, who served as President Joe Biden’s top adviser on the pandemic from 2021 to 2022, testified before Congress in May 2021 that the National Institutes of Health, including the NIAID, did not support gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

During last night’s international rally in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, a recorded message from Dr. Phil was shown. In the message, Dr. Phil remarked, “It’s been seven months since October 7th and Hamas still holds 132 hostages from 20 different countries.”
He added, “Hostages being subjected to physical, sexual, and psychological torture… Together we can raise awareness and demand action for the safe return of all of these hostages. This is not an Israeli issue, this is an international issue, and we need the world’s support to get all of these hostages back home.”

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum had a rather unremarkable run for president. He made it to the Republican debate stage thanks to a fundraising gimmick that delivered donors gift cards. His biggest headline may have come after he tore his Achilles during a pickup basketball game the night before the first debate. And the former tech entrepreneur ultimately suspended his campaign before the Iowa caucuses.

A Hamas terrorist who attacked on Oct. 7 and who needed pelvic surgery in Israel but was initially refused treatment underwent the procedure over the weekend at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s Ichilov Hospital.
The issue of granting medical care to the detained terrorists of the Nukhba Force—the elite Hamas unit that spearheaded the massacres of Oct. 7—has been a source of controversy in Israel in recent months, often causing clashes between protesters and police.
On Thursday evening, during a right-wing protest near the Kirya military headquarters complex in Tel Aviv, police received notice that a terrorism suspect was being transferred to the hospital for surgery. Officers prepared to secure the hospital amid concerns over public disturbances.

An Israeli airstrike in Jenin over the weekend killed one of the terrorists responsible for the 2023 murder of Israeli civilian Meir Tamari, the Israel Defense Forces announced.
The airstrike on Friday night killed Islam Khamayseh, who was wanted over his involvement in a series of terrorist attacks, including the May 2023 drive-by shooting near Hermesh in which Tamari was killed.
Khamayseh was also believed to be responsible for another attack one month later that wounded four Israel Defense Forces soldiers and one Israeli civilian.
According to a joint IDF and Israel Security Agency statement, Israeli Air Force jets and helicopter gunships targeted a building used as an “operational war room” by a terror network.

The Palestinian Authority is taking advantage of the Israel-Hamas war to continue building a new city in the “Agreements nature reserve” in Midbar Yehuda and eastern Gush Etzion.
In recent weeks, a new vacation resort complex was built in the reserve.
“This serious failure is a security threat to the State of Israel. Wake up!” said Yaron Rosenthal, head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council.
The city is being built at a fast pace in order to create facts on the ground and make enforcement more difficult, despite the explicit prohibition to build in that area under the Oslo Accords.
The move by the Palestinian Authority is taking place without any intervention by the Israeli enforcement agencies, authorities said.

A U.S. delegation including Middle East adviser Brett McGurk and acting U.S. Iran envoy Abram Paley held indirect talks with Iranian officials in Oman last week on avoiding regional escalation, according to Axios.
Iran’s official IRNA news organization confirmed the indirect talks, but there was no comment from either the White House or State Department, according to Axios.
The report, which cited officials familiar with the talks, comes after a round of indirect talks in Oman in January focusing on the ongoing attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Red Sea shipping.