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…
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.…
The number of ballistic missiles fired by Iran has collapsed since the first day of the conflict, according to data from the Washington-based Jewish Institute for National Security of America, or JINSA. On Feb. 28, when the conflict began, the…
Click here to watch the webinar. PANELISTS Robert McNally President, Rapidan Energy; Former Senior Director for International Energy, U.S. National Security Council The discussion was moderated by JINSA President and CEO Michael Makovsky, PhD. — TRANSCRIPT Transcript has been lightly…