Iranian centrifuges (Credit: Shutterstock)

Latest IAEA report on Iran suggests a critically dangerous situation

September 13, 2022 | Ran Porat

On Sept. 7, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published its periodical report on Iran’s nuclear program.

Robert Barwick: Long standing Larouchite activist now a pro-China shill (YouTube screenshot)

Australian LaRouchites get aggressive in shilling for the Chinese Communist Party

September 7, 2022 | Judy Maynard

Days before the UN released the latest report to condemn the Chinese Government for its human rights abuses of the Uyghur people, a senior official of a conspiracy-toting, pro-China, Australian political party was accused of harassing and intimidating a prominent local critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

(Source: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe)

UNIFIL must be reformed or replaced

September 2, 2022 | Ran Porat

In its ineptitude, UNIFIL is paradoxically shielding Hezbollah and enables the terrorist organisation to increase its dangerous capabilities in Lebanon away from the world’s attention.

Iranian oil tanker

Empowering Russia’s allies is not the answer to the energy crisis

August 31, 2022 | Oved Lobel

What seems like realpolitik is therefore counterproductive. There is simply no way to compartmentalise these countries; the energy networks are too intertwined. Easing pressure on any of them will result in empowering all of them.

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Israel is increasingly part of a regional cold war against an Iran-Russia-China axis

August 26, 2022 | Ran Porat

What Russia’s critical attitude toward Israel’s efforts to undermine the PIJ’s capabilities reflects is that the clash in Gaza was not merely a local dispute. Rather, it was another front in the renewed regional, post-cold war conflict between the Western democracies and their allies, and authoritarian regimes affiliated with Russia and China.

Stemmen Op Stembiljet Met Rood Potlood

Israeli political parties shuffle the deck ahead of election season

August 19, 2022 | Ahron Shapiro

Ahead of Israel’s next national election on November 1, Israeli political parties have been holding primaries to determine their allocation of seats depending on how many votes they receive on Election Day, and discussing or implementing party mergers or splits ahead of the September 15 deadline for submitting lists for the election.

FBI Wanted Poster for Shahram Poursafi, the IRGC operative behind the plot to kill former US National Security Advisor John Bolton

Bolton and Pompeo assassination plot reveals Iran’s malign intentions and poor capabilities

August 12, 2022 | Oved Lobel

Rather than aiming for sophisticated plots, the exposed plots indicate that the IRGC-QF and MOIS seem to be throwing as many impromptu plots at the wall as they can to see if any stick. While they may eventually succeed by this method, the constant revelations of their failures should be an embarrassment for the Iranian regime.  

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Iran’s nuclear weapons threats are actually a sign of weakness

August 5, 2022 | Ran Porat

Talks between Iran and the other signatories of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) nuclear deal resumed in Vienna on August 4, in a last-ditch attempt to restore that flawed agreement. Yet in recent weeks, top Iranian officials have been trying to raise the stakes, trumpeting the message that they are just one decision away from possessing nuclear weapons.

The two terrorist founders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden (L) and his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri, both now brought to justice by the US

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.

Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro meets Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in 2016

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.

Hezbollah's arch terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, assassinated by Israel and US in 2008

Israel successfully neutralising Iran’s global terrorism apparatus

July 20, 2022 | Oved Lobel

While Israel can’t bring back the AMIA or Burgas victims, it has effectively ensured that such transnational attacks against Israelis and Jews remain, for the time being, extremely unlikely, with only one such successful attack in over two decades – all while striking blow after blow against this terrorist network.

Iran’s material support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must have consequences

July 14, 2022 | Oved Lobel

Both the Europeans and the US must make clear to Iran that any material aid to Russia’s invasion will have severe economic and diplomatic consequences. This is not only necessary to deter or at least punish any substantial Iranian weapons transfers to Russia, but also to head off the potential for the IRGC eventually establishing an operational military presence near US and allied forces in Europe.

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