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Tag Archives: Iran
“The base in Iraq allowed Israel to get closer to the battlefield. Israel’s air force carried out thousands of strikes against targets in Iran during the five-week campaign”
WSJ Israel Built and Defended a Secret Iran War Base in Iraq Anat Peled and Jared Malsin May 9, 2026 Israel set up a clandestine military outpost in the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign against Iran and launched … Continue reading
“The US and Israel still hold the upper hand because the foundations of Iranian power have been systematically reduced in ways that will take years to rebuild, if they can be rebuilt at all”
URBAN WARFARE Who has the upper hand in Iran? John Spencer May 10, 2026 One of the strangest habits in modern war analysis is how quickly survival gets confused with victory. Iran has not collapsed overnight. The regime still broadcasts … Continue reading
“The PRC imports something like 90 percent of Iran’s total oil exports, making it a true economic lifeline for Tehran – and giving it considerable leverage over the regime”
PRESENT DANGERS Iran looms over the Trump-Xi summit Ilan Berman May 9, 2026 President Trump is headed to China this coming week for that long-awaited summit with Xi Jinping. The agenda is a packed one, because he and the Chinese … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged China, Donald Trump, Iran, Peoples Republic of China, PRC, Xi Jinping
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“Had Trump allowed Israel one final operation in Iran, the IDF would have chosen to destroy the uranium. The Mossad, by contrast, would have chosen an all-out effort to stir Iranians into action and topple the regime”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israeli assessment: This is when Iranians will take to the streets to topple the regime. Amit Segal May 10, 2026 A severe dispute has erupted, and still persists, between the army and the Mossad … Continue reading
“America’s team of real estate developers and financiers may beat Iran’s diplomats at the bargaining table”
TIMES OF ISRAEL The US is negotiating with Iran like a venture capitalist Ariel Beery April 29, 2026 If there is one meme that sums up the mistake many make when thinking about the negotiations between the Islamic Republic of … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Donald Trump, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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“The strategic paradigms that governed the Middle East for decades have shifted. Not all of them. Not fully. But the shift is real, larger than is yet fully understood, and Israel drove it”
MIRYAM INSTITUTE Is Israel Safer Today? John Spencer April 21, 2026 It is hard to call any war’s outcome while it is still happening. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either not paying attention or not being straight with you. … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, John Spencer, Lebanon
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“Critics of administration have predictably dismissed the reverse blockade move as a desperate effort to regain leverage over Tehran. In truth, the strategy is anything but spontaneous”
FORBES Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Has Been Planned For Years Ilan Berman April 15, 2026 …A decade-and-a-half ago, while on a visit to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, I had a candid exchange with a senior military official deeply … Continue reading
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Tagged casus belli, Centcom, Donald Trump, Iran, Straits of Hormuz
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“Why so many, on both the left and the right, keep getting Trump wrong”
TABLET MAG Seven Myths About the Iran War Michael Doran April 14, 2026 Donald Trump’s actions in the Middle East continually surprise the foreign-policy establishment and the media elite. According to commentators on both the right and the left, the … Continue reading
“The mullahs believed they held all the cards when the ceasefire was called. But no permanent stoppage was possible without meeting U.S. demands”
FREE PRESS How Iran Wasted the Ceasefire Eli Lake April 12, 2026 The cliché about the Islamic Republic of Iran is that it has never won a war, but never lost a negotiation. Over the weekend in Pakistan, that diplomatic … Continue reading
“The allies dismantled Iran’s military infrastructure, but left untouched the narrative engine designed to end wars by breaking democracies from within”
FUTURE OF JEWISH Iran’s deadliest weapon was never on the target list Guy Goldstein April 10, 2026 The allied campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran mapped air defenses, missile batteries, nuclear facilities, and command nodes. It has been called … Continue reading
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