Jay Solomon
Chief Investigative Reporter at The Free Press
Global Security Editor, Semafor. Author of "The Iran Wars."
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5 days ago |
thefp.com | Jay Solomon
Last Thursday, as Israel expanded its military campaign, Iranian authorities at the Fordow nuclear complex in the country’s northwest dispatched 16 cargo trucks to the underground site’s primary tunnel entrance. These vehicles proceeded, over the next 24 hours, to move unidentified equipment a kilometer away, while working to fortify the mountain-covered crown jewel in the Islamic Republic’s atomic program.
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1 week ago |
thefp.com | Jay Solomon
Will Destroying Iran’s Nuclear Program Require a ‘Medieval Battle’? Absent American intervention, Israel could be forced to conduct weeks of air strikes and potentially unleash commando units to destroy Fordow. In late January 2018, Israeli spies from Mossad stole 100,000 documents from a warehouse in a southern suburb of Iran’s capital, Tehran, and exfiltrated the materials back to Tel Aviv.
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1 week ago |
thefp.com | Jay Solomon
Washington War Games: How the U.S. Prepared for an Iran Strike As far back as February, the Trump administration readied for a more offensive U.S. role in the Iran conflict. On a humid evening in late April, a group of Trump officials, U.S. intelligence analysts, and Iranian dissidents met for dinner in Washington to game out a potential military assault on Iran. Strong evidence that Israel was preparing to strike was already reverberating through intelligence channels in the city.
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1 month ago |
thefp.com | Jay Solomon |Tanya Lukyanova
Last month, The Free Press and the Center for Peace Communications sent a team of journalists to south Lebanon. They were there to retrace the steps of Hadi Matar, the 27-year-old Lebanese American man sentenced last week to 25 years in prison for assaulting and attempting to murder Salman Rushdie. With Matar found guilty and behind bars, you might think most of the big questions about this case have been answered.
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1 month ago |
thefp.com | Frannie Block |Jay Solomon
On Wednesday, Donald Trump will travel to Qatar. On his trip, the president will visit Al Udeid Air Base, the largest American military facility in the region, and attend meetings with the ruling Al Thani family. Perhaps he will also thank them for the $400 million gift of a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet that will reportedly be retrofitted for his use, and then transferred to his presidential library. The airplane deal was signed off by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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