Dr. Efron is the Israel policy chair and a senior fellow at RAND. The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, for now, runs parallel to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. But Lebanon will become a main arena when the campaign against Tehran ends. Israel began planning its operation in …

What is unfolding before our eyes is of historic significance. The United States will lose its claim to hegemony over the world just a few decades after the fall of the USSR. There is a considerable discrepancy between what the official Western media report about the war in Iran and …

His appointment as SNSC secretary shows that the regime is relying on a veteran hardliner to manage crisis and preserve control. On March 24, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian announced the appointment of Gen. Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), succeeding the influential Ali Larijani, …