National Security Briefs

National Security Briefs

Israel-Hezbollah Escalation Tracker

Lebanon has arrested no more than one percent of Hezbollah’s fighters in the year since the November 2024 ceasefire agreement with Israel. These inadequate efforts to disarm Hezbollah, as required by the deal, are jeopardizing the tenuous peace the U.S.

Iran Summary – November 2025

Iranian officials continued to defend the country’s nuclear program despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Directors demanding they permit United Nations (UN) inspectors to access Iran’s nuclear sites and provide information on the regime’s missing enriched uranium

Iran Summary – October 2025

With Chinese and Russian support, Iran formally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on October 18, with the Islamic Republic declaring itself free from the 2015 deal’s restrictions after the United Nations (UN) reimposed sanctions on the

Iran Summary – September 2025

Summary On September 27, the United Nations reimposed extensive sanctions on Iran that the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s (JCPOA) nuclear deal had lifted after the E3 (France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) had triggered “snapback” and Iran failed