The Assad regime's collapse in Syria will impact the ceasefire in Lebanon by preventing Iran from resupplying Hezbollah via its land bridge through Syria--to the benefit of Israel and the United States, says Jonathan Ruhe 📺 Stephanie Coueignoux via LiveNOW from FOX livenowfox.com/video/1559048

"With Assad’s downfall and Iran’s degradation, Israel can better enforce the Lebanon ceasefire and prevent Hezbollah’s rebuilding. By wiping out Syria’s air defenses, Israel has a clearer path, literally, to attack Iran’s nuclear program," Ruhe said. nysun.com/article/soleim…

“[Iran’s] final leap to a bomb could still be hard to detect,” Jonathan Ruhe “The IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ still lacks clarity on Iran’s bomb-building program”   “Expedited transfers of US-made KC-46 tankers and bunker busters would certainly help here.” via The Times of Israel timesofisrael.com/its-proxies-pu…

New report by JINSA's Iran Policy Project explains that to prevent a nuclear #Iran, President-elect Trump must begin building truly maximum pressure from day one. This starts with credible military options. A 🧵on strategy jinsa.org/jinsa_report/a…

“What’s different now is the Iranians are incredibly vulnerable” - Amb. Eric Edelman, co-chair of JINSA's Iran Policy Project. David Sanger highlights our recent report which provides a playbook for Trump's maximum pressure strategy. via The New York Times (1/2) nytimes.com/2024/12/24/us/…

"The next few months will be the last chance to prevent a nuclear Iran. An Iranian breakout is still detectable...its air defenses are degraded...creating a[n] opportunity that the US must exploit before time runs out." w/ Jonathan Ruhe for Washington Times Opinion washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/…

🚨NEW Iran Projectile Tracker for December by Ari Cicurel   🧵w/ key takeaways & updated charts and graphs on missiles, rockets, drones, and mortars Iran & its proxies fired at U.S. personnel, partners, and interests in the region.

One week from today, Donald Trump will re-assume the office of the presidency. Among his priorities is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. He'll need a playbook to do it. Amb. Eric Edelman & Gen. Chuck Wald provide him a playbook 👇 thehill.com/opinion/intern…

The idea of using private military contractors as part of the post-conflict stabilization mechanism in Gaza was floated, among other places, by a report from JINSA last March. More on what they proposed: jewishinsider.com/2024/03/task-f…

Hamas's exploitative staging of the hostage exchanges shows Hamas "feels emboldened. They do not feel like they've lost, despite the horrible cost they've inflicted on Gaza." - Jonathan Ruhe on NewsNation

As President Donald J. Trump prepares to address a joint session of Congress, American generals and admirals call on the United States to support any Israeli effort to roll back Iran's nuclear weapons program. jinsa.org/open-letter-fr…

⏰Time is almost up to prevent a nuclear Iran. Diplomacy has low odds of success + high risks. 🧵on our report arguing inaction is riskier than military action. America & Israel should work closely before, during, and after an Iran strike to ensure its full success. 1/8

My latest JINSA report in the Wall Street Journal: Iran's "regime might well calculate that the entire region—Israel, U.S., and Arab targets alike—are all fair game in response to large-scale operations intending to roll back its core nuclear program." wsj.com/world/middle-e…

✈️Jonathan Ruhe: "The airlift is essential to protect key U.S. bases and partners in the Middle East, which otherwise are much more vulnerable than #Israel to #Iran's shorter-range missiles" by Colin Demarest

U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations begin tomorrow. The challenges facing President Trump's team are considerably more difficult than those faced by President Obama in 2009. 👀Check out our comparative infographics

Conflicting statements from U.S. officials undermine the goal of ending Iran's nuclear weapons program. Iran has systematically violated IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ safeguards, making a verification track suspect. To ensure it never gets a nuclear weapon, its program must be fully dismantled.

My latest article in The Dispatch, giving a blueprint for what Team Trump should NOT to do in nuclear talks with Tehran. TL;DR: stick to your redlines and deadlines!

Israel’s new Gaza plan takes up key recs from our Feb 2024 task force report w/ The Vandenberg Coalition calling for: 1⃣ A new international entity to administer Gaza aid 2⃣ private security contractors to facilitate aid & sideline Hamas in postwar Gaza 1/

🧵As a potential new Iran deal takes shape, Jonathan Ruhe says Trump faces a critical test:   Will it be a clean break from Obama’s and Biden’s failures—or a repeat w/ a different label? The stakes for U.S. credibility couldn’t be higher. 🇺🇸 The Dispatch (1/4)

"Without a credible military threat, if Tehran fails to comply, the regime will confidently wait out the United States, call the president’s bluff and angle for a dangerously one-sided agreement." Jonathan Ruhe @JINSAdc #ThreatStatus ow.ly/sBkV50W3ze3