When the revolutionaries stormed the Bastille in July 1789, they freed all the prisoners held there — all seven of them, that is. My teacher Jeffrey Hart loved to point that out in his lectures on Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France.
The Iranian regime holds considerably more political prisoners in its overcrowded Evin Prison and Israel somehow struck the gates of the prison today. Lahav Harkov reports for Jewish Insider, Anthony Blair for the New York Post.
We have no word if anyone escaped, but the symbolic import of the strike should rank up there with the storming of the Bastille. In any event, Amit Segal explains the significance of this attack in “The Doomsday Clock For Israel’s Destruction Is No Longer Ticking,” today’s edition of his daily newsletter It’s Noon In Israel.
The gates of Iran’s infamous Evin prison were bombed, giving prisoners the option to escape.
This is an escalation by Israel, as it is now targeting not just Iranian military sites, but also Iranian institutions that oppress their own people—and don’t directly affect Israel.… pic.twitter.com/ZwZGl1Plot— ME24 – Middle East 24 (@MiddleEast_24) June 23, 2025
