EU foreign ministers reached an agreement on Monday to expand existing sanctions on Iranian drones to include missiles and their potential transfer to proxies such as Russia, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters in Luxembourg. European Union sanctions announced following Iran’s attack against Israel are “regrettable” because the country was acting … Read more
The same day Iran launched its first ever direct attack on Israel it embarked on a less-noticed confrontation at home, ordering police in several cities to take to the streets to arrest women accused of flouting its strict Islamic dress code. Iranian authorities insist that their so-called Nour (Light) campaign targets businesses and individuals … Read more
The scale of Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel matched US spy agencies’ worst-case scenarios, US officials told The Wall Street Journal. “This was on the high end, I think, of what we were—what we were anticipating,” a senior official said. It threatened not only Israel, a US ally, but also Biden’s hopes of … Read more
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei thanked the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps for the attack on Israel, conducted on April 13, according to reports from Iranian state media. According to reports, he also called upon the Iranian armed forces to “ceaselessly pursue military innovation and learn the enemy’s tactics.” “How many missiles were launched and … Read more
According to a survey performed by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 74% of the Israeli public opposes an Israeli counter-attack in Iran if it would undermine the security alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and several moderate Arab countries, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The survey was conducted by a … Read more
Three days after the Iranian missile attack on Israel and the successful interception of the vast majority of them, the defense establishment and the defense industry are now engaged in investigating the incident and learning from the events. Although Israel has been successfully intercepting rockets launched from Gaza since the Iron Dome’s conception in … Read more
Israel’s repelling of a massive Iranian drone and missile salvo was fully coordinated with the Pentagon, which had a US operational liaison officer in the control room of the Arrow ballistic air defense system, a senior Israeli official said. The United States, along with Britain, France and Jordan, helped Israel intercept the bulk of … Read more
The US had seen Iran moving military assets, such as drones and cruise missiles internally, two US intelligence sources told CNN. This is the latest development signaling a possible Iranian attack on Israeli targets, including targets within Israeli territory. However, the sources say that it remained unclear whether or not Iran will attack from … Read more
Iran sent very strong signals between last November and this January that it was pushing the envelope further with its nuclear-weapons program. Why, then, did it suddenly slow things down in February? Is this a larger policy change? Or is Tehran just playing games again, just before the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of … Read more
