Even as Iran expands attacks across the Persian Gulf, several of the countries directly targeted are still refusing to join the fight against Iran, opting instead for restraint and diplomacy. Gulf governments say their priority is defending their territory while…
Iran confirmed on Tuesday that Israel had assassinated overnight Ali Larijani, one of the most important Iranian officials still alive. Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s National Security Council, was the regime’s key figure after the assassination of supreme leader Ali Khamenei by…
In a candid conversation, former Israeli Air Force Commander and JINSA Distinguished Fellow Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Amikam Norkin shared the difficult feelings that accompany him as someone who was exposed to the depth of the investigation into the failure, and…
Israel announced that it killed Iran’s national security chief, Ali Larijani, and the head of the Basij forces, Gholamreza Soleimani. Maj Gen (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, Israel’s former National Security Advisor and Distinguished Fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security…
Within a period of less than two weeks in June 2025, and without suffering any combat or operational losses of manned aircraft, Israel was able to rapidly establish air superiority and supremacy over relevant parts of Iran, heavily degrade the…
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Yaakov Amidror, former head of Israel’s National Security Council and JINSA Distinguished Fellow, explained his theory on the developments in the campaign against Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Amidror referred to the IDF’s achievements and the attack…
Missile salvos from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific are exposing the limits of interceptor-based defenses, and the US Navy’s renewed testing of its electromagnetic railgun suggests a possible answer. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that the US…
When Israel and the United States struck Iran’s nuclear facilities last summer, the goal was clear: cripple Tehran’s ability to produce a nuclear weapon. The attacks damaged key enrichment sites and infrastructure. But the fate of Iran’s most sensitive material—hundreds…
Click here to read a transcript. Iran’s regime is trying to escalate its way out of the war. While U.S.-Israeli operations degrade its military capabilities, Tehran is broadening the conflict and raising its economic costs by attacking commercial shipping, mining…
The latest U.S. military attacks against Iran have been criticized by several members of Congress — including Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia) — who argue the Iranian threat, nuclear or otherwise, was insufficiently imminent to justify self-defense.…