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April 22, 2025
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EVENT: FDD's Air and Missile Defense Program Launch
To help protect the United States and its allies from the rising threat of missile and drone attacks, FDD is excited to inaugurate its new Air and Missile Defense Program, housed within the Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP).
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Iran Program Senior Director and Senior Fellow
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FDD Research & Analysis
- Today at 8:30am (ET): "FDD Morning Brief," FDD Event
- "Israel and Iran at War: Emergency SITREP," The Iran Breakdown
- "War Tour d’Horizon," FDD's Foreign Podicy
- "Elaborate ‘deception operation’ orchestrated by Trump and Israel’s Netanyahu to decapitate Iran’s leadership and cripple nuclear program," Daily Mail
- "Everything You Need to Know About the Iran Attack," The Free Press
- "Options for Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization," The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune
- "Israel’s Strike Changes Everything in Iran," The Wall Street Journal
- "Iran’s lies about its nuclear plans finally at an end," New York Post
- "China Wants Our Hearts. Literally." The Cipher Brief
- "The 9 Iranian Nuclear Scientists Israel Has Eliminated," FDD Insight
- "UNIFIL Was Intended to Be a Temporary Force, and It Has Now Outlived Its Utility," FDD Policy Brief
- "Israel May Need U.S. Help to Take Out Key Iranian Nuclear Site Before Disaster Strikes," FDD Policy Brief
- "A new chapter in Israel’s long war," Generation Jihad (by FDD's Long War Journal)
- "Israel targets Iran’s nuclear sites and senior military figures," FDD's Long War Journal
- "US adds Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Imam Ali to list of terror organizations," FDD's Long War Journal
- "Ukrainian intelligence details Russia’s new V2U autonomous loitering munition," FDD's Long War Journal
- "US strike in northwestern Syria kills Islamic State’s external attack planner," FDD's Long War Journal
- "IDF asserts control over areas of Gaza, returns hostage bodies," FDD's Long War Journal
- "Iran Appeals to Qatar, Oman to Revive Nuclear Talks," FDD Flash Brief
- "Israel’s Mossad Smuggled Drone Parts Ahead of ‘Operation Rising Lion’," FDD Flash Brief
- "Israel’s Air Defenses Stand Firm Under Iranian Fire," FDD Flash Brief
- "‘Hit Every Site and Every Target’: IDF Strikes Iran’s Critical Energy Sector," FDD Flash Brief
- "At Least Eight Dead, Dozens Injured After Iranian Missile Barrage on Israeli Civilians," FDD Flash Brief
- "Israel Confirms Mossad Teams Operating Inside Iran," FDD Flash Brief
- "‘From Western Iran To Tehran:’ Israel Claims Air Superiority Over Iranian Skies as it Braces For Further Retaliation," FDD Flash Brief
- "Iran Launches Dozens of Ballistic Missiles at Israel," FDD Flash Brief
- "‘Before There Is Nothing Left’: Trump Warns of Devastation in Iran if Nuclear Deal Not Reached as World Leaders Caution Against Escalation," FDD Flash Brief
- "At Least 20 High-Level Commanders, Nuclear Scientists Killed in Israeli Strikes on Iran," FDD Flash Brief
- "‘This Is Not Diplomacy, It Is Surrender’: UN General Assembly Demands Unconditional Ceasefire in Gaza," FDD Flash Brief
- "‘We Are Not Pausing for a Moment’: Israel Strikes Iranian Ballistic Missile Infrastructure," FDD Flash Brief
The Must-Reads
- Israel has struck a blow to Iran’s nuclear program—but it isn’t yet a knockout
- How Israel’s Mossad smuggled drone parts to attack Iran from within
- After sitting out the Iran attack, U.S. steps in to help Israel intercept missiles
- Iranian strikes kill at least 8 in Israel as conflict enters fourth day
- WSJ Editorial: Israel’s nuclear good deed against Iran
- Israel takes control of Iran’s skies—a feat that still eludes Russia in Ukraine
- Next round of nuclear talks between U.S. and Iran is off
- WSJ Editorial: One Iranian miscalculation after another
- Former US national security adviser John Bolton: Iran’s Ayatollahs are weaker than ever
- Russia’s summer offensive in Ukraine gains ground with new tactics
- US aircraft carrier heads west from South China Sea amid Middle East tensions
- Trump called Canada the 51st state. Now the G-7 summit brings him to Alberta.