Analysis
Friday, February 28th 2025 / Thursday, February 27th 2025
Jared Malsin, Alexander Ward, and Dov Lieber WSJ, Feb. 12, 2025 “Iran is more exposed than ever to strikes on its nuclear facilities. We have the opportunity to achieve our most important goal—to thwart and eliminate the existential threat to the State of Israel.” U.S. intelligence agencies concluded during the final days of the Biden […]
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Jonathan Spyer Jerusalem Post, Feb. 21, 2025 “Iran’s disadvantage cannot be assumed as a now permanent factor in the Mideast strategic picture. Rather, it is an asset that will eventually decline or even disappear, unless exploited.” In a soon-to-be-published article in Middle East Quarterly magazine, Colin Winston, a 30-year veteran of the CIA and former head of […]
Christopher de Bellaigue Foreign Affairs, Feb. 25, 2025 “In Khamenei’s view, what matters is the long term.” Since October 7, 2023, the long arm of Iran has seemingly been everywhere in the crises that have beset the Middle East. With its eye on Hezbollah, Iran’s heavily armed Shiite ally in Lebanon, Israel was wholly unprepared […]
Robert Williams Gatestone, Feb. 26, 2025 “Iran is using organized and violent criminal gangs to carry out serious attacks within Sweden. Sweden is not at war. But there is no peace either.” Iran’s terror axis, thanks to Israel’s military operations, is finally beginning to collapse. Iranian terrorist proxies have been seeming to disintegrate across the […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, February 21st 2025
SHABBAT READING: GETTING THERE? Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort: Andria Stricker, FDD, Feb. 19, 2025 — A secret team of Iranian scientists is working to shorten the country’s route to nuclear weapons, according to current and former U.S. officials. This intelligence was collected during President Joe Biden’s final months in office, then relayed […]
Monday, February 10th 2025 / Sunday, February 9th 2025
Lahav Harkov Jewish Insider, Feb. 6, 2025 “… if there are a few small fish with problematic views for Israel, we can deal with it. All the senior people support Israel very much. Yesterday, at the Department of Defense, we heard very warm and supportive things from Hegseth. That guy [DiMino] sat in the room and heard […]
Wednesday, January 8th 2025
WHAT TO DO? Iran 2025: Nuclear Crisis Awaits Trump: Barak Ravid, Axios, Jan. 6, 2025 — Iran’s recent nuclear advances give President-elect Trump a crucial decision to make in his first months in office: Try to neutralize the threat through negotiations and pressure, or order a military strike. *** Israeli Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Program In 2025 […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Jan. 6, 2025 “If the IDF could bring 120 Special Forces for three hours into Syria to destroy a sensitive Iranian facility, in the best-defended part of Syria from both air and on the ground after Damascus, why couldn’t Israel carry out an adapted version of such an operation at […]
Dov Lieber, Carrie Keller-Lynn and Saleh al-Batati WSJ, Jan. 6, 2025 “Israel is Israelizing the problem.” Over the past year, Israel’s military has proved adept at taking down threats to the country’s security. After the initial shock of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Hamas’s top leadership has been largely neutralized. Iran’s other big ally in the region, […]
Benjamin Weinthal Fox News, Jan. 4, 2025 “After a year and a quarter dedicated to severing the octopus’s arms, Israel stands in 2025 at a historic crossroads for the confrontation Netanyahu has long sought and for which history will judge him: eliminating the nuclear threat once and for all.” Elite Israeli forces conducted a dramatic […]
Dan Diker and Yossi Kuperwasser Jewish Policy Center, Winter 2025 “We are really facing jihad; we are facing Holy War, as Iran has reminded us time and time again since 1979, with the return of Grand Ayatollah Khomeini from Paris.” inFOCUS: This issue assesses Iranian policy and the future of the Tehran regime, mostly from the American […]
Thursday, January 2nd 2025 / Thursday, January 2nd 2025
Lazar Berman Times of Israel, Dec. 31, 2024 “At first blush, it would seem that Israel has no business searching for proxies in the region…But history indicates otherwise.” Israeli leaders have been boasting effusively about the country’s success in degrading Iran’s proxies in recent months. “We knocked down Hezbollah, which was supposed to protect Iran,” […]
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