June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Since Bashar Al-Assad’s regime fell in late 2024, constant Israeli airstrikes have targeted Syria’s military infrastructure in locations across the war-torn country. Israeli forces have also advanced into the UN-monitored demilitarised buffer zone separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, as well as into adjacent regions, including the summit of …
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June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Monday that Israel’s campaign against Iran was “changing the face of the Middle East”, as the two countries traded heavy strikes for a fourth day. The remarks came hours after a dramatic Israeli attack on an Iranian state TV building that forced a …
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June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Fattah is Iran’s first ever hypersonic missile, and it has been used in attacks on Israel [Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty] The war between Israel and Iran continues to escalate, with both sides vowing to use maximum pressure on their enemy following days of violence triggered by Israel’s aerial offensive. Decades …
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June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
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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June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
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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June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
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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June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
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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June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
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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June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
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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June 18, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
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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