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Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel

An Israeli flag flutters on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on June 13, 2025. (Getty Images)

Reports

How Israel’s Operation Rising Lion Dismantled Iran from Within: A Case Study in the Art of Deception

Zineb Riboua

Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Zineb Riboua

Jun 13, 2025

Reports

Long Read

(School of War)

Podcast

Israel’s Unfolding Campaign in Iran

Aaron MacLean

Former Senior Fellow

Aaron MacLean

Jun 13, 2025

Podcast

Iranian workers walk past a destroyed residential building due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Iranian workers walk past a destroyed residential building due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)

Commentary

The Ultimate Deception: How Trump and Bibi Outfoxed Iran

Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Michael Doran

Jun 13, 2025

Commentary

7 Min Read

Damage after Israeli air strikes in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Saba Middle East Images via AFP)

Commentary

Israel Takes Action Against Iran: MENA Defense Intelligence Digest Special Edition

Can Kasapoğlu

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Can Kasapoğlu

Jun 13, 2025

Commentary

5 Min Read

Portraits of Iranian military generals and nuclear scientists killed in Israel’s June 13 attack are displayed above a road as a plume of heavy smoke and fire rise over an oil refinery in southern Tehran on June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare via Getty Images)

In the Media

What America Knew Before the Strikes, and Where Iran’s Nuclear Program Stands

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Jun 13, 2025

In the Media

Smoke rises from Tehran, Iran, after Israeli strikes early on June 13, 2025. (Getty Images)

Podcast

Israel Update: War with Iran?

Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Michael Doran

Jun 12, 2025

Podcast

(Fox News Screenshot)

In the Media

Supporting Israel Through Tough Middle Eastern Policy

Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Michael Doran

Jun 11, 2025

In the Media

(Deep Dive logo)

In the Media

Deep Dive | June 9

Jonathan Hessen

Former Nonresident Senior Fellow

Mary Kissel

Senior Fellow (Nonresident)

Jonathan Hessen & Mary Kissel

Jun 9, 2025

In the Media

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in Tehran, Iran, on May 20, 2025. (Iranian Leader Press Office via Getty Images)

Commentary

Tehran Awakens a Jacksonian Giant

Mike Watson

Former Fellow

Mike Watson

Jun 7, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

(Screenshot via YouTube)

In the Media

Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Race: IAEA Sounds the Alarm

Jonathan Hessen

Former Nonresident Senior Fellow

Marshall Billingslea

Senior Fellow

Jonathan Hessen & Marshall Billingslea

Jun 4, 2025

In the Media

Mourners carry the coffins of slain Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, during a funeral procession on January 4, 2020. (Mohammed Sawaf via Getty Images)

Reports

Badr Organization: Iran’s Oldest Proxy in Iraq