Amid charged exchanges between President Trump and Iran’s fragmented leadership over the regime’s insistence that it retain its nuclear enrichment system, top experts on Iran’s atomic weapons program support the commander in chief’s ironclad goal to dissolve it. … Jonathan Ruhe, fellow…
The Trump administration’s latest push to ease tensions between Israel and Lebanon faces another key test this week as diplomats prepare for the second round of direct talks between the two countries on Thursday. … Yoni Tobin, a senior policy…
For six weeks, the United States and Israel pummeled Iran’s military infrastructure, with US Central Command saying it had struck over 13,000 targets and Israel reporting some 4,000 of its own. Yet even in the final days before a two-week…
JINSA Iran Policy Project Advisor VADM (ret.) Robert Harward, former Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command, joined Morning Edition on NPR to discuss the U.S. naval blockade on Iran and the future of U.S. policy on Iran. VADM (ret.) Harward…
Donald Trump’s scope to escalate military action against Iran is set to widen within days, as a third aircraft carrier and thousands of elite US troops approach the region. While the president said on Tuesday he would extend his ceasefire…
Brian Kilmeade and JINSA President & CEO Michael Makovsky, PhD discuss the looming deadline for the Israel-U.S.-Iran ceasefire and why the IRGC may have taken over negotiations.
The U.S. Navy has turned back 27 ships trying to enter or exit Iranian ports since an American blockade outside the contested Strait of Hormuz began about a week ago, the military’s Central Command said on Monday. … “The message is…
A United States Navy destroyer intercepted an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, firing into its engine room after repeated warnings. Following a six-hour standoff, U.S. Marines then repelled from helicopters onto the ship taking custody of the…
The U.S. military is using sea drones to help clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines that might be lurking there, in a quiet effort to ease Iran’s stranglehold on the waterway and begin reopening it to commercial shipping. … “You can…
As a former deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, a Navy SEAL and a member of the National Security Council under former President George W. Bush, I spent decades helping oversee U.S. military operations across the Middle East under leaders…