Analysis of Friday and Sunday air strikes on Syria, which were widely attributed to Israel, is converging on the signal of “strategic clarity” sent by whoever ordered the strikes. Foundation for Defense of Democracies research fellow Tony Badran notes that there has been “confusion in some of the media commentary” regarding the...

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Some foreign policy analysts have, in the past, claimed that when Iranian officials call for the eradication of Israel, they mean that peacefully. This will not...

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The United Arab Emirates on Monday blasted a visit by Iranian officials to contested Gulf islands in the Strait of Hormuz. The Gulf islands – Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb – lie along the approach to the Strait of Hormuz. Their status has been disputed since 1971, Iran...

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In recent months Iranian and Hezbollah operatives have been linked to multiple terror plots in Bulgaria. Iranian agents are on trial for another terror plot in Thailand. Nigerian police recently broke up an Iranian terror cell. A recently concluded trial in Cyprus of a confessed Hezbollah member ended with a...

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Iran and its terrorist proxy Hezbollah are coordinating to seize control of large swaths of Syria in the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s expected downfall, according to analysis published today by Israeli Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira: Suleimani… now appeared to be prepared to extend Iran’s control to all of Syria....

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Iran has already crossed Israel’s nuclear red line, the former head of Israeli military intelligence said Tuesday. “By the summer, Iran will be a month or two away from a decision about the bomb,” said Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, now the director of the Institute of National Security Studies,...

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The Gulf Cooperation Council is calling for international inspectors to be dispatched to Iran to inspect the country’s Bushehr nuclear plant. The declaration comes after a Tuesday 6.3-magnitude earthquake in the area, and the GCC called attention to concerns over radiation leaks: GCC Secretary-General, Abdulatif al-Zayani, said that Gulf Arab states...

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Israeli officials are adding their voices to those of U.S., E.U., and U.N. officials accusing Iran of using negotiations to stall for time as it develops clandestine elements of its atomic program widely believed to be linked to weaponization.  The talks’ failure was unsurprising to members of the P5+1,  a senior Israeli official...

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Talks between the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog and Iranian officials – aimed broadly at increasing the transparency of Iran’s atomic program, and specifically at securing access for investigators to Iran’s military facility at Parchin – have again ended without a deal being reached. Iran is widely suspected of having conducted work related...

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Inspectors from the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog are in Iran for another round of talks aimed at decreasing opacity around Tehran’s atomic program. Iranian officials are lowering expectations and signaling distrust in the agency, which seeks access to the Iranian military facility at Parchin where it is widely suspected the Islamic...

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