MEF Insider: Iran answered U.S. strikes by firing on four American partners. @greggroman argues Washington has one job now: hold the line, not hand Tehran another pause to reload.
Read Issue 018:
mefinsider.meforum.org/p/hold-the-line
As Iran dominates the headlines again, remember who rooted for Tehran when it clashed with America.
MEF’s @emahyar reports on how Western Islamists and far-right voices like Nick Fuentes exposed an anti-American alignment inside the West. @IslamistWatch@FWIslamism
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A U.S. lawsuit alleges Iranian intelligence officers tracked, threatened, assaulted, and tried to assassinate an American-Iranian activist inside Turkey.
@abdbozkurt reports.
Algeria celebrated its removal from the FATF gray list. But the IMF’s warning exposed a deeper problem: deficits, oil dependence, and weak economic management.
@amineayoubx explains.
Egypt’s new Octagon command center is not just military modernization.
MEF’s Jose Lev Alvarez warns it comes as Cairo edges closer to Erdoğan’s neo-Ottoman project.
Turkey’s Libya campaign shows what Ankara does with advanced weapons: project power, arm proxies, and convert technology into leverage.
@amineayoubx explains why Israel is worried.
.@TheEconomist turned to MEF’s @samwestrop for perspective on Texas’s debate over “Islamification” — and the deeper question of how officials should confront Islamist networks without getting lost in online noise.
An Israeli report corroborates longstanding warnings about Muslim Brotherhood affiliates in Italy, including the country’s top Islamic body.
@DrJulesGomes reports.
MEF Chief Strategist @JimHansonDC tells @FoxNews Tehran may be badly misreading President Trump.
Iran’s regime thought it could survive, sell oil, and regroup. Hanson says Trump’s “get this done” message puts something bigger back on the table: regime change.
Watch the full Fox News segment: MEF Chief Strategist Jim Hanson explains why Tehran may be misreading Trump — and why regime change does not have to mean U.S. boots on the ground.
Foreign journalists in Iran often report the images Tehran gives them.
@potkazar warns that surface-level coverage can turn reporters into regime amplifiers.
Iraq’s anti-corruption raids are being sold as reform.
Ali Almrayatee argues they are really selective purges used by dominant factions to destroy rivals and reassure Washington.
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President Trump says he's done with Iran
“I’m not sure I want to make a deal. Let’s just finish the job.”
I told Liz McDonald
"...probably some strikes on regime leaders. If I was them I wouldn't be sleeping above ground"
Twenty-four hours ended the pretense.
Tankers burned in Hormuz. Treasury pulled Iran’s oil waiver. CENTCOM hit 80+ targets.
MEF Insider’s Issue 017: @greggroman on the day the memorandum died.
mefinsider.meforum.org/p/issue-017-it…