Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. The man who ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran for 36 years, outlasted six American presidents, built and sustained the most consequential sponsor of terrorism in the modern Middle East, forged an empire that extended…
Click here to watch the webinar. PANELISTS Elliott Abrams JINSA Iran Policy Project Member; Former U.S. Special Representative for Iran Mehdi Parpanchi Executive Editor, Iran International The discussion was moderated by JINSA Vice President for Policy Blaise Misztal. — TRANSCRIPT…
For decades, Iran managed to bluff American presidents. It deterred attacks from a superpower and carried out proxy campaigns against its neighbors and Israel. Our strikes on Iran on Saturday are evidence that this long-term strategy of negotiating in bad…
Crippling Iran’s ability to launch volleys of missiles at targets in the Middle East will likely be a priority for U.S. and Israeli military planners over the next few days, a former commander of U.S. Central Command said Sunday. Iran…
Click here to watch the webinar. PANELISTS Gen Frank McKenzie, USMC (ret.) JINSA Hertog Distinguished Fellow; Former Commander, U.S. Central Command IDF MG (ret.) Oded Bassiuk JINSA Sherman-Vidal Distinguished Fellow; Former Operations Directorate, Israel Defense Forces IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov…
On Saturday night, the first evening of the second American-Israeli military campaign against Iran in less than a year, an Israeli official made a dramatic announcement to reporters — that the Israeli Air Force had assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 28, 2026 Contact: Blake Johnson bjohnson@jinsa.org Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Michael Makovsky, President and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, on the U.S.-led military operation against the Iranian regime: “We commend President…
We wanted to get a military perspective on today’s events. And for that, we have called Robert Harward, retired vice admiral, former U.S. Navy Seal, also former deputy CENTCOM commander – U.S. Central Command. He’s now a member of the…
The Air Force has surged F-22 Raptor air superiority fighter jets and aerial refueling tankers to Israel for possible combat operations against Iran, as the Trump administration continues to weigh embarking on an air campaign against the Iranian regime. And…
With a massive U.S. military buildup in the Middle East, and prospects for a diplomatic breakthrough looking fairly grim, an American operation against Iran might finally be around the corner. … The U.S. has flooded the Middle East with fighter…