1. General Miller, the last commander of Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Thomas Joscelyn & I “were right” about the Taliban’s control of districts & its military operations to take over the country.

👇Thank you Siamak Aram/سیامک آرام Jason Brodsky FDD's Behnam Ben Taleblu for speaking with me on this important topic of Islamic Republic transnational repression 👇

What you don’t point out is that Iran de-designated experienced IAEA inspectors last summer on the back of neither a censure resolution or a multilateral statement. So the lessons seems to be: if the West take action, we reduce cooperation. If they don’t, we reduce cooperation.

Iran is beginning to build a new nuclear facility in Natanz. “This one is underneath a mountain, and it is projected to go over 100 meters deep, buried in concrete, heavily fortified,” Dubowitz says. The concern is that “the Israelis won’t be able to bomb it, and even we, with

🟡 SCOOP: Republican lawmakers investigating the suspension of Biden’s Iran envoy uncovered evidence he downloaded sensitive and classified documents and may have shared them with individuals outside the US government, Jay Solomon reports.
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