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By Dmitri Shufutinsky April 23, 2019 BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,149, April 23, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey poses a long-term threat to the security of the Middle East. Containing Neo-Ottomanism requires a defensive policy that integrates Greece, Cyprus, Israel, and the Kurds into a regional alliance. A new era has dawned in the northern Levant. […]
Soltan-Shahi was described by MEMRI in 2018 as secretary-general of the Organization for Aiding the Islamic Revolution of the Palestinian People in the Office of the Iranian Presidency. Seth J. Frantzman April 23, 2019 18:04 Iran’s Tasnim News ran a long and important interview on Tuesday with a Palestinian named Ali Reza Soltan-Shahi. The interview […]
False reports of airstrikes come in context of US-IRGC tensions and tensions between the SDF and the Syrian regime BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN APRIL 24, 2019 02:04 b President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. (photo credit: REUTERS) Over two consecutive nights rumors of airstrikes by the US against pro-Syrian regime forces in eastern Syria have led […]
Hana Levi Julian19 Nisan 5779 – April 24, 2019 U.S.-led air strikes targeted Iranian-backed forces and oil tankers late Tuesday night, according to multiple unconfirmed reports from local sources, Middle East political analysts and Arab media. A gathering of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were targeted by air strikes aimed at the forces in the Syrian […]
Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps / Getty Images BY: Adam Kredo Follow @Kredo0 April 23, 2019 2:45 pm A senior Iranian military officer affiliated with the country’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, has fled the Islamic Republic with a cache of secret documents said to contain information on Tehran’s military plans, according to […]
by Barney Breen-Portnoy Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner attends a plenary session at the Middle East summit in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 14, 2019. Photo: Agencja Gazeta / Slawomir Kaminski via Reuters. The Trump administration’s yet-to-be unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan entails “tough compromises” for both sides, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said […]
After weathering the storm of the last years of crises in the region, Jordan sees record tourism revenues while it navigates the ongoing need to host Syrian refugees. By Seth J. Frantzman April 6, 2019 17:25 AMMAN – The streets in Amman’s Jebel al-Weibdeh are crowded in the early evening with sounds of young […]
The 9th Gen Intel Core mobile H-series processors are aimed at gamers and video graphics creators, boasting up to 33% better overall performance compared with a three-year old PC. Eytan Halon April 23, 2019 19:26 American technology giant Intel Corp launched its “most powerful generation” of laptop processors to date on Tuesday, designed by its […]
The US placed its Middle East forces on high alert on Monday, April 22, before announcing the cancellation of waivers that allowed 8 countries to buy embargoed Iranian oil. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an unprecedentedly tough statement. “We are going to zero across the board. We’ll continue to enforce sanctions and […]
“To me, Jerusalem is a red line, and all my people are with me,” King Abdullah II of Jordan said on Wednesday. By David Isaac, World Israel News In the wake of recent tensions on the Temple Mount, King Abdullah II of Jordan said, “To me, Jerusalem is a red line, and all my people […]
Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi met with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing. By Anna Ahronheim April 23, 2019 17:20 Iran will increase naval ties with China in the Northern Indian Ocean, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi told his Chinese counterpart, saying it would accelerate the withdrawal of other countries from the […]
A recent discovery in a Paris flea market should awaken the world to a frightening possibility Aaron David Fruh April 21, 2019 23:52 As antisemitism ascended in pre-Holocaust Austria, a Jewish writer in Vienna – Hugo Bettauer – wrote a futuristic allegorical novel entitled The City Without Jews. The year was 1922, and the book […]
The John C. Stennis and Abraham Lincoln carrier strike groups have joined the US Mediterranean 6th Fleet for the first time in more than two years. This was announced on Monday, April 22, by the 6th Fleet commander, Vice Adm Lisa Franchetti. DEBKAfile’s military sources add that this unusual concentration of US naval and air might in the region is intended […]
U.S. President Donald Trump’s designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization is the first move in extending the concept of “terrorism” to a state actor — an actor that owns a remarkable share not only in Iranian foreign and security policy but also in its economy.This move could have severe […]