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The Middle East never stops moving. Neither does the FDD Morning Brief. Three mornings a week, FDD Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer cuts through the noise with the experts who have spent their careers studying, shaping, and living the region’s most consequential moments. All before your morning coffee gets cold.

vor 2 Tagen

The Israel-Turkey collision course | feat. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak

Headlines: Kuwait and Pakistan signed a military cooperation agreement yesterday, building on a deal signed in 2023. The IDF is poised to surge troops into the West Bank as violence over there continues to escalate.Iranians this week rushed to stock up on fuel and food in anticipation of supply shortages.-- FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with world-renowned Turkey scholar Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak. Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
vor 4 Tagen

Economic D-Day against Tehran | feat. Miad Maleki

Headlines: China blasted the United States after the Trump administration rolled out Operation Economic Outcast, its new pressure campaign to completely isolate Iran from the global economy. Let’s stick with Iran, shall we? Iran and Oman are considering establishing a joint shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. Military officials from Uganda and Burundi visited Israel last week to discuss troop deployments to Gaza. -- FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with FDD Senior Fellow Miad Maleki. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
vor 6 Tagen

The elusive exit from the Iran war | feat. Jonathan Tobin

Headlines: Some mixed messages out of Iran’s rump regime. We’ve got President Masoud Pezeshkian saying that a new MOU is the best way out of the war. He warned that the country’s economy is in a downward spiral. And he’s not wrong. Reports over the weekend suggest that the regime may now ban all contact with foreigners.Four kites out of Gaza drifted over Kibbutz Nahal Oz. The last time kites flew over the territory, they were either on fire or contained explosives. -- FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Jonathan Tobin, editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS). Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/
21. Aug.

Syria's Russian reconstruction | feat. Anna Borshchevskaya

Headlines: The Trump Administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s president and top lawyer over their egregious, corrupt, politicized conduct.The United Arab Emirates suspended all trade and financial transactions with Iran after Tehran fired two ballistic missiles at the gulf country on Tuesday.Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency began excavating a suspected secret nuclear site run by the former Assad regime in Syria. -- FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Anna Borshchevskaya of the Washington Institute. Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
19. Aug.

War and the Board of Peace | feat. Shira Efron

Headlines: The U.S. and Israel have agreed to establish two Gaza working groups: one related to Hamas disarmament and the other to public health in the Strip. Russia is reportedly replenishing Iran’s munition stockpiles by shipping drone parts, ammo, and even ballistic missile components to the regime via the Caspian Sea.President Trump threatened to bomb Oman if it obstructs the administration’s efforts to clinch a deal with Iran.-- FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Shira Efron, distinguished Israel policy chair at the RAND Corporation. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
17. Aug.

Toppling Tehran | feat. Emily Schrader

Headlines: The rump regime in Iran claims that the government of Qatar is holding three of its pilots that were shot down in the open stages of the most recent war.The Houthis are still at it in Yemen. The port city of Mocha, controlled by the good guys in southern Yemen, continues to get hammered with Houthi missiles. A Hamas delegation led by chief psychoKhalil al-Hayya began meeting with the Egyptian intelligence chief on Sunday.-- FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Emily Schrader of Israel's ILTV News. Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
14. Aug.

A university blooms in wartime Israel | feat. Daniel Chamowitz

Headlines: A tense situation is playing out in the West Bank village of Qusra. Israeli settlers, or perhaps not settlers but anarchists, depending upon who you talk to,have been besieging two Palestinian homes since Sunday, cutting their water and electricity. The IDF killed Hamas commander Jamal Mahmoud Abu Kamil in a targeted strike in Gaza City on Thursday. The Navy's swapping out its Middle East carrier — the USS George Washington will replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been enforcing the blockade of Iranian ports and has now been at sea over 250 days, and without a port call in 200. The Qatari propaganda outlet Al Jazeera quietly ended contracts for at least 24 of its Gaza-based staff. -- FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with President Daniel Chamovitz of Israel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
12. Aug.

Congress' MidEast mindset | feat. Laura Kelly

Headlines: U.S. forces fired on a Panama-flagged ship early Tuesday for running Washington's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, hitting its rudder after the crew ignored warnings.Last Thursday the leaders of India and Israel had a phone call. Some called it "out-of-the-blue." But the conversation between Modi and Netanyahu was decidedly not random.Former Hamas hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen took the stage to perform nine songs he wrote entirely in his head during 498 days in captivity.--- FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Laura Kelly, foreign policy reporter for The Hill. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

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The Middle East never stops moving. Neither does the FDD Morning Brief. Three mornings a week, FDD Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer cuts through the noise with the experts who have spent their careers studying, shaping, and living the region’s most consequential moments. All before your morning coffee gets cold.