Amid reports that the Mossad chief presented removing the ayatollahs as an achievable goal, it is worth to remember that uprisings are not sparked from the outside. To mobilize a mass opposition, one must identify an existing crack, then widen it. How is that done, and why has it not yet worked in Iran?
Extreme threats, surprise direct talks and a barrage of clichés about Israel being thrown under the bus and an unstable leader: everything Israel went through with Hamas in Gaza is now repeating itself with Iran. Still, there is one significant difference between the smaller enemy and the larger one, and it will determine what the endgame looks like.
This is a particularly opportune moment for Donald Trump to alter the world order in the face of China and Russia and to reshape geopolitics in the Middle East. For now, Beijing and Moscow are hesitant to intervene and even abstained from voting on a Security Council resolution condemning Iran.
The US president disclosed the alleged "good-faith" gesture at a cabinet meeting Thursday, saying ten fully laden ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz under a Pakistani flag.
A 30-year-old man was killed and a man in his 50s left critically wounded after a projectile fired from Lebanon struck a residential building.
