Analysis

Friday, October 6th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Michael Oren WSJ, Sept. 28, 2023 “The result was a conflict that, in terms of its scale and complexity, was almost unmatched in the post-World War II era.”   Recently, while walking in a Tel Aviv park, I was approached by a well-dressed, elderly man who recognized me—I once served as Israel’s ambassador to the […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, October 5th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

Inside Tehran’s Soft War:  Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Iran International, no date — Three Iran experts who have worked closely with Robert Malley, the Biden administration’s special envoy on Iran, were members of an influence network formed and guided by Tehran, an investigation by Iran International shows. _____________________________________________________ Inside Iran’s Influence Operation:  Jay Solomon, Semafor, Sept. 29, […]

Analysis

Thursday, October 5th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Lee Smith Tablet, Oct. 1, 2023 “… the IEI recruited several U.S.-based analysts, including Tabatabai, Ali Vaez, and Dina Esfandiary, all of whom willingly accepted Iranian guidance.”   The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, […]

Analysis

Thursday, October 5th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Jay Solomon Semafor, Sept.29, 2023 “This initiative which we call ‘Iran Experts Initiative (IEI)’ is consisted of a core group of 6-10 distinguished second-generation Iranians who have established affiliations with the leading international think-tanks and academic institutions, mainly in Europe and the US.”   THE SCOOP In the spring of 2014, senior Iranian Foreign Ministry […]

Analysis

Thursday, October 5th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Graeme Wood The Atlantic, Sept. 28, 2023 “… some of the reported exchanges between the Iran Experts and their convenor are mortifying.”   When news comes out that someone has suffered an email breach, my first instinct is to pity them and practice extreme charity. I don’t remember any emails I wrote a decade ago, […]

Analysis

Thursday, October 5th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Caroline Glick Carolineglick.com, Sept. 29, 2023 “Vaez, who served as the head of ICG’s Iran desk rewrote the Iranian draft and published it as a policy paper under his name and the ICG banner. Vaez called his laundered Iranian draft, “Iran and the P5+1: Solving the Nuclear Rubik’s Cube.””   There is something terribly disturbing […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, October 4th 2023 / Tuesday, October 3rd 2023

 WEEKLY QUOTES “The wars of the Jews are always the ugliest. The Arabs won’t need to fight. The Jews, as usual, will destroy themselves.” — Yoni Netanyahu, late brother of P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu, to his parents in November 1973. (WSJ, Sept. 28, 2023)   “Our government won’t come within a kilometer of anything that even […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, October 4th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

Des archives déclassifiées témoignent de fortes réserves sur les accords d’Oslo                                                                                  MICHAEL BACHNER                                […]

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Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

MBS OPENS UP Bret Baier Interviews Saudi Prince: Israel Peace, 9/11 Ties, Iran Nuke Fears: ‘Cannot See Another Hiroshima’:  Peter Aitken, Fox News, Sept. 20, 2023 —  Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in his first interview with a major American news network since 2019 addressed controversies that have plagued his country and government over the […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenboge, Ambassador Hesham Youssef et al United States Institute of Peace, Sept. 28, 2023 “… there are major challenges to consummating such a deal between a triangle of actors whose interests don’t neatly align and, in key areas, starkly diverge.”   In recent months, a drumbeat has built around the U.S. effort to negotiate […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Emad Mekay IBA Middle East, no date   “The biggest game changer may be the almost certain ascent of the 31-year old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the Saudi throne.”   As countries in the Middle East move to re-position themselves to face new perceived threats, a major new alliance, and one previously considered […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Colonel Richard Kemp Ynet News, Sept. 30, 2023 “Economic benefits accruing from normalisation are high up on Saudi’s agenda, but its top priority is security and regime stability, upon which all else depends.”   Many commentators believe that official diplomatic recognition might flounder on the Palestinian issue, with Saudi demanding compromises that Israel cannot meet. […]