Iran Summary – July 2024

July 2024 Summary: Masoud Pezeshkian was sworn in as the ninth president of the Islamic Republic. Israel reportedly carried out a series of targeted assassinations against the leaders of Iran’s proxy terror groups, killing Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah’s most senior military commander Fuad Shukr, and the commander of Hamas’s military wing, Muhammad Deif. The strike against Shukr was in response to a Hezbollah rocket attack on a soccer field in the northern Israeli Druze village of Majdal Shams on July 27 that killed 12 children and injured at least 44 others. The Iran-backed Houthis launched a drone attack on Tel Aviv on July 19 that killed one person and injured at least ten others in the first Houthi attack to successfully target a major Israeli city, prompting Israel’s first-ever military strike in Yemen. U.S. intelligence officials uncovered a plot by Iran to assassinate Donald Trump, prompting the Secret Service to increase security measures around the former U.S. President and current presidential candidate. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, warned that Iran has both encouraged and funded anti-Israel protests in the United States. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that the Islamic Republic is “probably one or two weeks away” from having breakout capacity to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon. Click here to view JINSA’s updated Iran Projectile Tracker.

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