It’s too early to tell, but here are some initial thoughts on this move:

It’s a clever response from Iran.

It’s the least dramatic yet the most effective way to respond.

Without any loss of life, they managed to seize an Israeli asset and paint a picture of what further…

Starvation. The unacceptable face of Israel’s war on Gaza.

A doctor from an international aid agency took these pictures 10th April at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

The desperate parents gave permission to publish these.

Live ammunition targeted UNICEF's humanitarian convoy as it travelled to deliver life-saving aid to North Gaza, despite coordinating its mission and informing Israeli forces of their route and schedule.

By threatening retaliation Iran has already got a number of wins. Europe and Gulf states have had found themselves in undesirable situation of pleading restraint with Iran, which also puts the onus on them going forward to also restrain Israel's response to Iranian response, and…

#إسرائيل تشن حرب إبادة جماعية وترتكب جرائم ضد الإنسانية في #حرب_غزة والمنطقة كلها على صفيح ساخن فهناك تصعيد وجبهات مشتعلة قد تتطور إلى حرب إقليمية كارثية. في المقابل هناك حرب غبية، ساقطة وعبثية محتدمة وبدون هوادة يقودها الناموس والذباب الإلكتروني بين الدول العربية!

abdullah baabood عبدالله باعبود دكتور… ايران تُدرك الفخ الذي نصب لها وهيهات بأن تنجر نحوه ، ولكنها سترد بطريقة غير مباشرة وبعد أن تأخذ الحرب النفسية مداها .

So it begins…? #Iran #Israel

تواجه #إيران تحدي ومعضلة حقيقية في كيفية الرد على قصف #إسرائيل لقنصليتها في دمشق. فهي لا بدّ من أن ترد حتى لا تفقد مصداقية عملية توازن الردع ولكن عليها وزن الأمور بدقة وأن لا تقع في الفخ الذي ينصب لها لإثارة حرب إقليمية تستدعي التدخل الأميركي وتحقق حلم #نتانیاهو وأنصار إسرائيل!

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Historian Benny Morris supports Prime Minister Netanyahu’s resolve to attack Rafah (“Israel’s Security Depends on Rafah,” NY Times, 11 April 2024). Normally home to 280,000 Gazans, Rafah now also contains 1.2 million internal…

🧵 1/2 #Iran has been careful about not getting into an all out conflict with #Israel that would do away with assets it has spent the better part of four decades building up.

Expect escalatory rhetoric but some sort of calibrated response in retaliation for consulate bombing.

Hamas abducted 240 or so hostages on October 7th. Since then, Israel has kidnapped over 8000 Palestinians and sent them, without charges, to a concentration prison in the Negev desert. Even Israeli doctors are describing the horrors and the tortures in that remote place. Aren’t…

وجهت مجموعة بريكس دعوة للمملكة العربية السعودية للانضمام إليها في اجتماعها المقرر في أغسطس/آب 2023 في #جنوب_أفريقيا . وكان من المتوقع أن تستجيب المملكة للدعوة مطلع العام الجاري، لكنها ما زالت تدرس الموضوع. ويتماشى الانضمام إلى البريكس مع المصالح الأساسية السعودية التي تشمل تعزيز…

In my latest for National Interest, I profiled Mohammed Soliman from the Middle East Institute/McLarty Associates.

Admittedly, this was a first for me: I've never written a profile before this, but I was somewhat compelled to try.

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#Israel is not simply carrying out a war of revenge against #Hamas , rather it is using it as an opportunity to continue its deliberate policy of savage aggression, atrocities and ethnic cleansing against the #Palestinians .

Amanpour says there ‘are no journalists on the ground in Gaza’. Stewart corrects her, saying there are: Palestinians & they’re being killed.

She responds ‘yes, but we need independent,western journalists’

She switches gears swiftly but her initial lament gives away the…

Ethnic cleansing is the untold objective of a settler colonial state. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Gaza Genocide‌

I spent some time in the Christian Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, where Israeli Police, a Jewish real estate firm, and Israeli settlers armed with automatic weapons, attack dogs, and bulldozers have been regularly attacking and attempting to ethnically cleanse the…

On the Iran-Saudi Agreement:
*China is no guarantor
*Regional approach way to go
*Clear remaining misperceptions
*Year 2 roadmap: security & economics

Had the pleasure of co-authoring this piece with Mohammed T. Alsudairi 苏墨涵 where we advance these arguments. thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…