National Security Briefs

National Security Briefs

Iran on Nuclear Precipice as Oversight Dwindles

Iran’s dangerous belief in its deterrent edge over the United States and Israel, which is painfully apparent in Tehran’s unrequited proxy attacks and other pressures against both countries since October 7, is compounded by its expanding capacity to produce a

On December 3, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen launched projectile attacks in the Red Sea against three commercial vessels—the M/V Unity Explorer, the M/V Number 9, and the M/V Sophie II. Iran effectively now sits astride and can harass commercial

Though it is Israel most commonly, and wrongly, accused of war crimes in the media or by international organizations, Hamas has committed numerous human rights violations and war crimes since the war began. Not just when it murdered, burned, raped,

After a spate of recent Houthi attacks on Israel, commercial shipping, and U.S. naval vessels, the Biden administration announced on November 21 that it is considering re-adding the Iran-backed group—also known as Ansar Allah—to the U.S. lists of Foreign Terrorist