June, 2025

• 18 June

  Netanyahu has two war aims: destroying Iran’s nuclear program and regime change. Are either achievable?

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could last for at least two weeks. His timing seems precise for a reason. The Israel Defence Forces and the country’s intelligence agencies have clearly devised a methodical, step-by-step campaign. Israeli forces initially focused on decapitating the …

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• 18 June

  Iran Update Special Report, June 16, 2025, Evening Edition

  

  Iran has maintained its negotiating position on its nuclear program during the Israeli campaign, meaning that Iran does not appear willing to negotiate an end to the Iran-Israel War yet. Western media reported on June 16 that Iran is seeking to “de-escalate tensions” and quoted Arab officials who said that …

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• 18 June

  A bipartisan Iran strategy for the next US administration—and the next two decades

  

  Key three The United States needs a bipartisan strategy toward Iran that can be maintained across several administrations, one that works patiently and resolutely to counter Iran’s efforts to dominate the Middle East, drive the United States out, destroy Israel, and threaten Arab allies. Pressure to keep Iran from getting …

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• 18 June

  Twenty questions (and expert answers) on the Israel-Iran war

  

  A decades-old conflict between Israel and Iran that was never quite “cold” is rapidly heating up. In the days since the first Israeli attacks against the Iranian nuclear program and military leadership, more than two hundred people have been killed in Iran and at least two dozen have died in …

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• 18 June

  Nuclear Claims Are a Smoke Screen for Hopes of Toppling Iran

  

  The Israeli strikes aren’t about facilities or centrifuges, but regime change. The real debate has never been about what to do with Iran’s nuclear program. It’s always been about what to do with the regime. For some people in Israel and the United States, the nuclear program itself is the …

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• 18 June

  Iraqi militias largely rely on rhetoric in response to Israel-Iran conflict—for now

  

  Iran-backed militias in Iraq have resorted mainly to words, not actions, to support Iran since direct conflict between Israel and Iran began on June 13. The statements issued by the groups have included anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments typical of the militias, condemnations of Israel’s strikes, and vague threats aimed at …

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• 18 June

  IRGC Commander Hossein Salami, Killed In Israel’s Strikes On Iran: ‘Our Enmity For America Is Essential And Rooted In Faith, And We Are Fighting The Global Arrogance’ – The U.S.; Today Iran ‘Stands… In The Heart Of A Great Jihad… Facing A Complex And Powerful Array Of Enemies Small And Large As Part Of A Global Satanic Coalition’

  On June 11, 2025, two days before he was killed in Israel’s strikes on Iran, IRGC commander Hossein Salami said in a speech at the Center for Documentation, Research, and Dissemination of the Legacy of the Iran-Iraq War that the Iran-U.S. war did not end with the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, …

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• 18 June

  “Resistance Axis” Reactions to the Israel-Iran Military Conflict

  On June 13, 2025, Israel launched a preemptive attack in Iran on dozens of military andsecurity targets and sites of the nuclear program across Iran. More than 20 senior figures in thesecurity leadership, military commanders and nuclear scientists were eliminated, including thecommander of the armed forces and the commander of …

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• 18 June

  The Paths of the Israeli Military Operation Against Iranian Capabilities

  

  The Israeli attacks against the Iranian military command system and defensive and offensive capabilities put the coming developments in the context of a set of trends and paths that can be formulated based on the overall events in the region and Iran’s proxies since the outbreak of the war in …

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• 16 June

  In First Since Start Of War With Iran, Houthi Ansar Allah Movement Claims Missile Attack On Israel In Coordination With Iran; Houthi Leader: Opportunity To Inflict ‘Great Defeats’ On Israel, To Renew ‘Equation Of Deterrence’

  

  On June 15, 2025, for the first time since the start of the war between Israel and Iran which broke out on June 14, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Israel that it said was coordinated with operations carried out by …

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