Iran Wants Jordan
Iran is stirring up anti-government sentiment in Jordan, with the goal of toppling King Abdullah II and replacing his regime with one led by Hamas.
Iran is stirring up anti-government sentiment in Jordan, with the goal of toppling King Abdullah II and replacing his regime with one led by Hamas.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have declared war on Israel, launched a barrage of long-range missiles and attack drones at the Jewish state, and hijacked Israeli-linked cargo ships in the Red Sea.
Critics are accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of succumbing to extortion in its recent decision to give the Islamic Republic of Iran access to some $6 billion in frozen assets in exchange for the release of five Americans wrongfully held in Iranian prisons.
Soeren Kern, a geopolitical analyst and writing fellow for the Middle East Forum, joins us today on the Christian Worldview Radio Program to explain many of the issues surrounding the Israel-Hamas war.
Historical archrivals Iran and Saudi Arabia recently agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations, ending seven years of bilateral estrangement.
Russia’s use of Iranian-made unmanned drones in its war against Ukraine is forcing Israel to step up its own defenses against such weapons, as analysts warn that Ukraine is a testing ground for a future Iranian war against Israel.
Germany’s parliament has called for the permanent closure of a controversial mosque in Hamburg that is used by Iran’s theocratic regime to export its Islamic Revolution to Europe.
Recent clashes between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have underscored Iran’s growing influence in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz estimated that Iran was a year or two away from building a nuclear bomb. His estimate coincided with comments by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said that Iran is just three or four months away from being able to produce enough fissile material to build a nuclear weapon.
Morocco recently established full diplomatic relations with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords, an effort by the United States to forge normalization agreements between Israel and Arab states to build a united front against Iran.
A recent report by the American think tank RAND warned that China has close ties with Iran, and that “the Chinese government might require Chinese companies doing business in Israel to share insights with the Iranian government in order to win friends and influence in Tehran.”
On a wide range of geopolitical issues — from relations with China, Iran and Russia to anti-Semitism, climate change, defense spending (NATO), energy dependence (Nord Stream), globalism, Hezbollah, Huawei and mass migration — U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell embarrassed German leaders by showing that their words and actions do not match.