Esmail Qaani

November 11, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iranian FM and Quds Force do outreach to Iraq

High-level meetings in Tehran signal deepening Iran-Iraq security cooperation, while Iran simultaneously advances its regional agenda through talks with Turkey, Russia, and Lebanon.

October 13, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Questions left unanswered: What Hamas’s plans for 2022 leave out

If Hamas leaders in Doha knew, then it raises questions about why Qatar, a US ally, didn’t know about the plan. If Doha did know then it raises concerning questions about why Israel wasn’t informed.

July 31, 2024 | The LWJ Editors |

Hamas chief political leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran

One of Hamas’ longest-serving and most influential leaders, Chairman of the Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh, was targeted and killed on Tuesday in Tehran while in town to attend the inauguration ceremony...

May 24, 2024 | |

Iran’s Terror Proxies Gather On Sidelines of Raisi’s Funeral

Representatives from Iran’s network of terror proxies convened on May 22 on the sidelines of the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s funeral. Raisi died alongside Iranian...

March 8, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

New threats from Iran’s IRGC Quds Force chief

Qaani directed his threats at Israel and other countries linked to Israel, a reference to the US apparently.

March 7, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israel vows to press on against Hamas as conflict faces new hurdles

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at an IDF officers course graduation ceremony on March 7 at a training base in the Negev. “The IDF will continue to operate against all of Hamas’s battalions...

November 2, 2023 | David Daoud |

The voice of Hezbollah breaking the silence: Nasrallah to speak on Friday

As Israel inches towards creating a new “security regime” in the Gaza Strip by destroying the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas and the broader Joint Operation Room of the Palestinian...

October 18, 2023 | Tony Badran |

Eyeless in Gaza

How the U.S. blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon

October 13, 2023 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

America’s Middle East Imperative: Contain Iran

The Hamas attack on Israel is just the latest of the Islamic Republic’s proxy wars to destabilize the region and undermine American interests

May 5, 2023 | |

Raisi Affirms Iranian Coordination with Palestinian Terrorist Groups

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on May 4 during his trip to Syria, where he predicted the imminent “collapse of the Zionist regime.”...

April 17, 2023 | |

Israel Thwarts IRGC Quds Force Plot

The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, said today it arrested two West Bank Palestinians who were in touch with members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds...

September 13, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Iran-Hezbollah Intelligence Center May Help Hamas Target Israel

Growing evidence points to a joint communication center in Beirut that coordinates activities in the region.

June 1, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Hamas as Tehran’s Agent

Since the late 1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been plying the Hamas terrorist group with cash and weapons while also teaching it how to be self-sufficient. With hundreds of millions of dollars...

July 23, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Jonathan Spyer

US investigates Qatar over claims that it finances Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps

The State Department has opened an inquiry into an Israeli government report that Qatar’s monarchy funded Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. “We...

May 9, 2020 | Alireza Nader |

Putin is Betting on a Losing Horse (As In Iran)

The Russian-Iranian alliance, a defining feature of power politics in the Middle East, is experiencing strains that should be exploited by the Trump administration.

January 9, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Where the US-Iran shadow war goes from here

The man once celebrated in Tehran as “the living martyr,” Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, is now just a martyr in the traditional sense. Felled by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, his life ended in the conflict...

May 26, 2015 | |

Afghanistan: The Next Battlefield?

“We will maintain a presence in Af­ghanistan, even after the end of our current mis­sion,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced. The Atlantic alliance, he said, w...