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In Brief: Iranian revolutionary guards boast of their power

Posted 22 September, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), boasted that Iran had “built power” to confront the US this week. “We have built power to defeat the US. When we build power [to confront] man’s largest military empire, i.e. the US, small powers like the Zionist…

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Analysis: New government, old problems for Lebanon

Posted 22 September, 2021 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Middle East
Foreign Minister of Greece Stavros Lambrinidis and Prime Minister of Lebanon Najib Mikati. Image Credit: Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Lebanese parliamentarians met this week to formally confirm the country’s new government. The appointment earlier this month of telecoms billionaire Najib Mikati as prime minister ends a year-long political deadlock…

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In Brief: Report claims Iran will have enough uranium for nuke in one month

Posted 15 September, 2021 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iran is on track to obtain enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb within one month, according to a report by the US-based Institute for Science and International Security. The report, published on Monday, estimated that a worst case scenario would see Iran produce enough weapons-grade uranium for…

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In Brief: Israel and Egypt hold first high-level meeting in a decade

Posted 15 September, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Image credit: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The leaders of Israel and Egypt, Naftali Bennett and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, held the first open talks in a decade on Monday as Bennett flew to Sharm el-Sheik. The leaders discussed rising tensions in Gaza, where both countries have imposed border restrictions in…

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Chatham House event: The Middle East’s Changing Political Landscape

Posted 14 September, 2021 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
In LFI's new pamphlet, The New Middle East: A Progressive Approach , contributors explored how the Middle East is changing and what a progressive UK foreign policy response might be. In this webinar, a number of the pamphlet authors and Chatham House experts discussed the publication’s main arguments and recommendations. Prof Yossi Mekelberg (Associate Fellow, Chatham…

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In Brief: Israel-Jordan ties boosted by water and energy cooperation

Posted 8 September, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Jordan River. Image Credit: Jean Housen, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Israel and Jordan could be poised for an unprecedented boom in water cooperation amid technological advancement, environmental pressures and improved diplomatic ties. Water deals between Jerusalem and Amman suffered in recent years under former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose critics accused him of neglecting…

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In Brief: Iran sends fuel to Hezbollah to reinforce regional influence

Posted 8 September, 2021 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. Image Credit: Ali Khamenei, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Iran has embarked on a campaign to establish itself as Lebanon’s primary fuel supplier, in order to empower its local proxy: the terrorist group Hezbollah. A recent report by Iran’s state Tasnim media, titled ‘The Iranian ships, the triangle of resistance that shattered…

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LFI event: The Middle East’s changing political landscape

Posted 31 August, 2021 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Join us for a discussion event on the Middle East's changing political landscape, organised in collaboration with Chatham House. You can sign up for this fascinating discussion here ahead of the event itself on Tuesday 14th September at 2pm. Over the last decade, Middle Eastern countries have experienced significant changes in their domestic political and…

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In Brief: Anti-government protests spread to Tehran

Posted 27 July, 2021 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Protests in Iran have entered their third week, with reports of widespread arrests of protestors and the deadly use of force. The protests began on 15 July in response to the ongoing severe drought and water crisis in the Ahwazi region of Khuzestan. Protestors have said that water represented…

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LFI director: What a genuinely progressive approach to the Middle East could look like

Posted 21 July, 2021 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. For those of us on the left who support Israel and want to see the forces of peace, progress and moderation advance in the Middle East, the last decade was without doubt a dispiriting one. Benjamin Netanyahu…

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