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“I don’t see any immediate threats to the stability of the regime,” adds Raz zimmt, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University in Israel. “The partners of the scheme are now more vulnerable than ever. But this does not necessarily mean that Iran itself is exposed to some form of political...

If Israel assesses with high confidence that it can, independently, completely take out Iran’s nuclear program, it is in its interest to act despite American opposition because the Iranian nuclear program poses the greatest threat to the country and Israeli leaders have declared they will not tolerate it.

Tehran-born Beni Sabti, who now lives in Israel, first located the pro-Nasrallah notices on Telegram from the leadership of the Jewish communities in Iran. The Jewish community of Isfahan wrote that it “congratulates and condoles the martyrdom of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah in Lebanon, who was martyred in the brutal operation of the Zionist...

Analysis: Iran's middle class has been hardest hit, which some see as a positive sign that could push Tehran back to nuclear talks with the West; however, economic hardship is sidelining the fight for political and social change in Iran.

Iran and other sources have blamed Israel for the strike, and are vowing retaliation – and Israel is gearing up for an attack. For the Haaretz Podcast, correspondent Linda Dayan spoke to Dr. Raz Zimmt, a senior researcher and expert on Iran from the Institute of National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University about this threat.

Sabti, who is a research fellow for the Institute for National Security Studies, said the head of the Jewish community in Tehran, Homayoun Sameach, who is also the Jewish community’s MP in Iran’s pseudo parliament, drafted a second letter with other religious minorities, Christian, and Zoroastrian, in the parliament to condemn the assassination of Haniyeh. The Post obtained a...

The letter of support Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian sent to the secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, on July 8 was seen by Israelis as a reinforcement of their already strong conviction that the reformist president’s election will not result in any change in the Islamic Republic. Responding to Nasrallah’s congratulatory message, Pezeshkian pledged...

Beni Sabti, who was born in Tehran and is an Iran expert for the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel, told the Jerusalem Post that the “The Jewish community has never come out for a candidate. This is the first time I have seen something like this.” He said the picture that Hakakian posted on X shows a “place of gathering to promote Ghalibaf.” He noted the Jews...

Ghahremani is either 23 or 24-year-old, according to Beni Sabti, who was born in Tehran and is an Iran expert for the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel. The clerical regime arrested Ghahremani two years ago for the altercation with the Iranian Muslim man, Amir Shokri. ...Sabti told the Jerusalem Post that “In these last days and weeks, there have been...

“Raisi's body was in the next room when they were talking,” Beni Sabti, a researcher in the Iran program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) think tank, told Iran International. He also serves as Persian spokesman for the Israeli government on Iranian issues. The timing of the meeting speaks volumes, according to Sabti who believes it was partly propaganda to...