Afghanistan and Iran after the assassination of Zawahiri
August 3, 2022 | Oved Lobel
The relationship between Zawahiri’s pre-al-Qaeda Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including its Lebanese branch Hezbollah, began as early as 1991, eventually evolving into a deep partnership between al-Qaeda and Tehran.
Iran riding the tide of Latin America’s “Pink Wave”
August 1, 2022 | Oved Lobel
The current wave of left-wing governments sweeping Latin America bodes extremely ill for the Jewish citizens of these countries as well as for both the US and Israel politically and security-wise. Reducing Venezuela’s isolation automatically translates into more Iranian power on the continent.
Countering the emerging Russia-Turkey-Iran alliance
August 5, 2022 | Amir Avivi
Less than a week after US President Joe Biden left the Middle East following a visit that focused on the informal Israeli-Sunni Arab alliance in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin boarded a plane to Iran, the leader of the opposing Shi’ite axis. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined the summit in Teheran.
Asia Watch: Indonesia and the Ukraine crisis
August 5, 2022 | Giora Eliraz
Outsiders might wonder how it happened that the President of the faraway Indonesian archipelago ended up getting involved in such a mission on European terrain. But a wider view of Indonesian history and foreign policy suggests this should not really be a surprise.
