Middle East
“There’s a growing awareness among Gulf states that Israel will be a good partner and ally for them to bolster regional security against the persistent Iranian threat,” says Varsha Koduvayur, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C.
With the economy contracting and Iranians feeling the squeeze, it’s no surprise that Iran has begun to lash at the United States—and now the United Kingdom and Europe.
Emily Landau, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, warns that America must stand firm and “not relent,” saying the Trump administration needs to understand how the regime can “twist things, making it seem there are concessions when there are absolutely no concessions at all.”
Mohammed Saud, part of a delegation of journalists from Arab countries, was harassed, spit on and physically attacked in what the Foreign Ministry called “cruel and immoral behavior.”
That the trailer suggests an equivalence between the killing of three Israeli teenagers and a Palestinian boy is serious cause for concern; “in contrast to the blanket condemnation of the Palestinian boy’s murder, murders of Israeli Jews are encouraged and incentivized by Hamas,” said CAMERA film reviewer Ricki Hollander.
According to his indictment, Adel Abu Hadayeb, 20, from the Bedouin town of Rahat, attempted to build a bomb and rocket after being radicalized by Hamas propaganda online.
Following the Iranian seizure of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the United States is launching “Operation Sentinel,” a multinational effort to secure the vital waterway.
Britain is expected to announce diplomatic and economic measures against Iran after its seizure of an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
Israel and Bahrain do not have formal diplomatic relations, though the two have recently improved ties.
“ ‘The Boxer’ took defensive action against an Iranian drone, which had closed into a near distance, approximately 1,000 yards, ignoring multiple calls to stand down threatening safety of ship and ship’s crew,” said U.S. President Donald Trump.
U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt tells PBS “NewsHour” that Israel is trying its best to succeed, despite facing terrorism “from the moment of its formation.”
“Israel and the Trump administration are concerned that a future deal in Syria could export the Iranian problem to Iraq and Lebanon,” according to an “Axios” report.
