Iran Summary – November 2024

Executive Summary: Israel and Hezbollah accepted the terms of a U.S./France-brokered ceasefire agreement that requires Hezbollah and Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon over a 60-day period, with the Lebanese Armed Forces implementing a security buffer in this territory. Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad emissary in the UAE, was kidnapped and murdered in a suspected Iranian plot. Russia continues to grow closer to the Iran-backed Houthis, U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking warned, as reports surfaced that a Houthi-linked company was trafficking Yemeni men to Russia for forced conscription in Russia’s war against Ukraine. said that Iran plans to install more uranium-enriching centrifuges and to begin to enrich uranium with thousands of recently installed advanced centrifuges at its two main nuclear facilities. The IAEA adopted a censure resolution that creates a clear path to “snap back” U.N. Security Council (UNSC) sanctions on Iran’s illegal nuclear weapons program before they expire next year. Three U.S. agencies warned of potential Iranian interference ahead of the U.S. presidential election in early November, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged an Afghan national in connection to an Iranian plot to assassinate now-President-elect Donald Trump.

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