Watch Webinar – The Widening War: Iran, Hezbollah, and the Gulf States
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Since the launch of Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion, U.S. and Israeli forces have achieved extraordinary success in striking Iranian leadership targets, regime infrastructure, and missiles and drones. Yet, even while Iran’s retaliatory fire is decreasing, it is nevertheless attempting to broaden the conflict into a regional war.
Iran has launched missile and drone attacks against not just Israel and U.S. military targets, but also several Gulf states, regional energy infrastructure, and commercial shipping. As a result, Brent crude prices have risen by 15 percent, while LNG tanker freight rates have surged by 40 percent. At the same time, ship insurers are canceling war-risk coverage for vessels operating in the Gulf.
In addition, Hezbollah has entered the war, prompting Israeli strikes on the terror group’s command centers and renewed IDF ground operations in Lebanon.
JINSA hosted a webinar examining the latest developments featuring IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, JINSA Distinguished Fellow and Israel’s former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister; Gen Charles Wald, USAF (ret.), JINSA Distinguished Fellow and former Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command; and John Hannah, JINSA Randi & Charles Wax Senior Fellow.
JINSA Vice President for Policy Blaise Misztal moderated the conversation.
Gen Charles Wald, USAF (ret.) Gen (ret.) Charles Wald is a Distinguished Fellow at JINSA. He is the former Deputy Commander of U.S. European Command, and the former Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Air Force. |
IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror is a Distinguished Fellow at JINSA. Prior to joining JINSA, MG Amidror was the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel, as well as the head of Israel’s National Security Council. MG (ret.) Amidror also has served as Director of Israel’s Intelligence Analysis Division. |
John Hannah John Hannah is the Randi & Charles Wax Senior Fellow at JINSA. Hannah served in a range of U.S. government positions, including National Security Advisor to the U.S. Vice President and Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State. |
Blaise Misztal Blaise Misztal is the Vice President for Policy at JINSA. Misztal previously was a Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and has held roles as the Executive Director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States and Director of the National Security Program at the Bipartisan Policy Center. |