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
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…
Turkey still has strategic value. That does not make it strategically reliable.
@nicolekouroushi argues Washington should stop treating Ankara as the central pillar of regional policy.
Israel’s police solve only 15 percent of Arab homicides, compared with 65 percent in Jewish communities.
MEF’s Jose Lev Alvarez argues clan violence has become a sovereignty problem.
Turkey should not be rewarded with America’s most advanced fighter jets while it destabilizes U.S. allies and courts adversaries.
@armradio cites MEF’s @mrubin1971 on why F-35 readmission would undermine U.S. interests.
Under former spy chief Hakan Fidan, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry is becoming more than a diplomatic service.
@abdbozkurt reports on its transformation into an intelligence and security platform abroad.
Egypt got the photo op. Morocco brought the relationship Israel actually trusts.
@amineayoubx explains why Rabat’s role in Gaza stabilization matters more than the headlines suggest.