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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.
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HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, AND HTS
HEADLINE 1: The Houthis are have resumed attacking ships in the Red Sea.
HEADLINE 2: The Trump administration revoked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
HEADLINE 3: Five Israeli soldiers were killed and 14 more were wounded in an ambush in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely updates and expert analysis, followed by a conversation with Roi Kais, Arab affairs correspondent for Israel's Channel 11.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely updates and expert analysis, followed by a conversation with Col. Richard Kemp, a retired British Army officer who has been on the ground in Israel and Gaza following the Hamas-led atrocities of October 7, 2023.
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THE IRANIAN PEOPLE VERSUS THE REGIME
HEADLINE 1: President Trump signed an executive order lifting sanctions on Syria.
HEADLINE 2: Iranian threats against Donald Trump and his administration keep on coming.
HEADLINE 3: While we’re on the topic of suspicious Iranian activity…Danish authorities arrested a man suspected of collecting intel on Jewish targets in Germany.
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FDD Senior Research Analyst Natalie Ecanow delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation between Jonathan Schanzer and award-winning investigative journalist Lisa Daftari, who serves as the editor-in-chief for The Foreign Desk.
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THE STATE OF IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, THE WAR IN GAZA, AND THE AXIS OF AGGRESSORS
HEADLINE 1: Hamas issued fresh threats against aid workers in Gaza.
HEADLINE 2: Over the last three months, the Shin Bet has arrested over 60 Hamas operatives in the West Bank.
HEADLINE 3: Ireland is weighing legislation to ban imports from Israeli communities in the West Bank.
BONUS HEADLINE 4: Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi issued a fatwa against President Donald Trump.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Jonathan Panikoff, who directs the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative.
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IRAN, GAZA, AND THE HOSTAGES
FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Brigadier General (Res.) Professor Jacob Nagel, FDD senior fellow and former Israeli national security advisor.
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On this special SITREP episode of the FDD Morning Brief, Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer is joined by FDD Senior Fellow Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus and FDD CMPP Senior Director Bradley Bowman to assess the fallout from Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran with a ceasefire now in effect — and evaluate the current status of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
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Tune in to the FDD Morning Brief for a special SITREP assessing the damage from the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. FDD Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer is joined by RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Senior Director of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation; Bradley Bowman, Senior Director of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power; and Behnam Ben Taleblu, Senior Director of FDD’s Iran Program for a comprehensive analysis.
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ISRAEL'S SUCCESSES AND IRAN'S STRATEGY
HEADLINE 1: Hackers stole approximately $90 million from Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.
HEADLINE 2: Iran and Israel are slugging it out like two boxers in the 10th round of a heavyweight bout.
HEADLINE 3: As Trump considers what to do next, polls are shedding light about what Americans think about Iran.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with FDD Chief Executive Mark Dubowitz, who hosts FDD's new podcast, The Iran Breakdown.
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THE REGIME IN IRAN'S ARSENAL, ISRAEL'S SUCCESSES AND SETBACKS, AND THE IRANIAN PEOPLE
HEADLINE 1: 20 Arab and Islamic countries signed a statement calling on Israel to stop striking Iran.
HEADLINE 2: The IDF took out Iranian Maj. Gen. Ali Shamdani.
HEADLINE 3: Two Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza.
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FDD Senior Research Analyst Natalie Ecanow fills in for Jonathan Schanzer, delivering timely situational updates and analysis ahead of a conversation with Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of FDD's Iran Program.
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ISRAEL, THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC, AND THE IRANIAN PEOPLE
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As tensions escalate following Israel’s strike on Iran, FDD’s Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus offers timely analysis and is joined by Iran expert Beni Sabti of The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) to assess the fallout.
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