Israel-Hamas war: Iran could determine whether the war becomes a regional conflict
Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas, but haven’t opened new fronts
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Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas, but haven’t opened new fronts
With Israel bent on crushing Iran’s ally Hamas, Tehran must decide whether it and the proxy militias it arms and trains will live up to its fiery rhetoric.
For more than four decades, Iran’s rulers have pledged to destroy Israel. The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rarely appears in public without wearing a black-and-white checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh. Iranian military commanders gloat over training and arming groups across the region that are enemies of Israel, including Hezbollah and Hamas. And when Hamas conducted the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel that killed 1,400 people, Iranian officials praised it as a momentous achievement, shatt
Poor Iran. The ultimate paymaster for the radical terrorist groups in the Middle East is Iran, and the New York Times gives a rather flattering portrayal of the dilemma Iran faces in calibrating its p...
Robert Malley was the State Department’s lead negotiator in the Obama and Biden administrations’ efforts to “contain” Iran’s nuclear weapons program by licensing it. In April, the State Department suspended Malley’s security clearance, placed him on unpaid leave, and scrubbed his page from its website. Malley is now under investigation by the FBI: an unusually high level of scrutiny.