Eyal Hulata

1 week ago | energypolicy.columbia.edu | Jason Bordoff |Eyal Hulata |Richard Nephew |MEGHAN L. O’SULLIVAN |Elizabeth Saunders

On the night of June 12, the Israeli military conducted widespread strikes on sites in Iran that targeted the country’s nuclear program and its senior military leadership. This attack, and subsequent retaliation by Iran, has set off an unprecedented exchange of intense missile strikes between Iran and Israel, which risks escalating into a larger regional conflict.

2 months ago | fdd.org | Daniel Ackerman |Eyal Hulata

The Islamic Republic of Iran has never been so vulnerable. Israel must take advantage of this window of opportunity to defuse the nuclear threat from Tehran. The October 7 massacre set off a multifront war that enabled Israel to break the “ring of fire” that Iran’s clerical regime spent decades putting in place around the Jewish state. Hezbollah to the north posed the greatest threat with its arsenal of nearly 200,000 rockets and missiles. Israeli forces smashed Hezbollah.