Iran
“Lebanon was the Islamic empire’s first target. Over the past decade, it has fallen like a ripe fruit into Iran’s hands,” said Jacques Neriah, a special analyst for the Middle East at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Despite sharing an interest in limiting Iran’s entrenchment in Syria, Russia has developed ways to express displeasure to Israel that include allowing weapons transfers, according to a new report.
“I am not trying to pass an alarmist message that we are at a dead-end, but the situation does not look very good,” said Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The Alma Center said Russia has a range of ways to transmit messages of displeasure to Jerusalem over Israel’s “gray zone” campaign against Iranian targets, despite sharing an overall interest in Syria.
“We have lived with Islamists in Iran and know their psychology, their politics and the way they operate. Appeasing them will haunt you, and they consider these moves as temporary and a sign of weakness,” says George Haroonian, a Los Angeles-based Iranian Jewish activist.
The motion states that Congress would support the JCPOA only if it includes provisions to address Iran’s ballistic-missile program; support for terrorism; and evasion of sanctions by individuals, entities and vessels in the trade of petroleum products with China.
Mark Dubowitz, CEO of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, tweeted: “ ‘Smarter’ Iran policy has spectacularly failed. Time for new ‘tough’ policy and new personnel with credibility to execute.”
New cyber-security czar Gaby Portnoy said a spike in the number of cyber attacks occurred in the last few weeks.
In a thinly veiled Memorial Day message to Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett vows that Israel will reach even those “1,000 kilometers to the east.”
The intelligence agency said the network sought to recruit Israeli civilians and to attack targets in Israel.
The virtual conference was hosted by Iran and attended by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Israeli agents interrogated Mansour Rassouli in his home in Iran, according to Israeli media reports • Other assassination targets reportedly included a U.S. general in Germany and a journalist in France.
