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FDD

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FDD is a nonpartisan national security and foreign policy institution. Defending democracies without fear or favor. Views are our experts' own.

Washington DC

Joined July 2009

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Mark Dubowitz
@mdubowitz
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🎙️🇮🇷 Just wrapped an episode of The Iran Breakdown with one of Washington’s sharpest strategic minds, @RC_Greenway. Former NSC Senior Director for the Middle East (Trump 45), DIA intelligence officer, and U.S. Army Special Forces officer. Out tomorrow.
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Andrea Stricker
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Told @FortuneMagazine re: the IAEA resolution provision of the U.S.-Iran MOU: “It’s essentially saying they will close the case on outstanding (safeguards) issues and pass no further IAEA resolutions. Iran basically put its wish list into this MOU.”
'Iran just basically put its wish list into this’: the Trump-Iran agreement gives Iran a free pass...
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The Iranian regime has never been weaker — yet any deal that includes sanctions relief would grant Tehran the one victory it could never have achieved on the battlefield: financial reprieve, write @mdubowitz and @miadmaleki in @nypost:
Iran deal tosses a tremendous cash lifeline to terrorist regime
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"Broadening authorization to financial transactions would crack the core architecture of U.S. oil and financial sanctions against Iran, arguably the most powerful economic leverage the U.S. holds over this regime, absent the naval blockade" — @miadmaleki in @nytimes:
Iran Gets Major Economic Lifeline for Minimal Concessions in Initial Deal
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The U.S.-Iran deal is "not a final agreement," @CliffordDMay told @FoxNews' @JesseBWatters. Cliff's analysis of the U.S.-Iran MOU and the challenges ahead 👇 🎥 youtu.be/Xjz86bfxmrU
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Permitting Iran to resume oil sales is far more consequential than a narrow General License, as broadening authorization for financial transactions would surrender the strongest leverage of the sanctions architecture established by President Trump—@JanatanSayeh:
Gifting Iran Early Concessions Surrenders Washington’s Upper Hand
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Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
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This is what you need to know about the next stages in Gaza; based on the latest information. My report 👇 what I understand from a source is that we will be seeing more on this soon, stay tuned 👇 Why isn't Hamas disarming as the Gaza peace plan progresses? - analysis “Hamas
Why isn't Hamas disarming as the Gaza peace plan progresses? - analysis
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Pirate attacks on ships in the Gulf of Aden are on the rise @BridgetKToomey in FDD's @LongWarJournal:
Pirate attacks on ships in the Gulf of Aden are on the rise
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China’s Chokepoint Problem: Why Beijing Is Welcoming a Leader Nobody Likes @FDD_CEFP Daniel Swift's latest Policy Brief:
China’s Chokepoint Problem: Why Beijing Is Welcoming a Leader Nobody Likes
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Brad Bowman
@Brad_L_Bowman
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Memorandum of Misunderstanding I appreciated the opportunity to discuss the new MOU with Iran and the path forward with @CliffordDMay & @MarkCMontgomery in this episode of @FDD's Foreign Podicy.
War and Peace and Other Possibilities
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Hezbollah: Lebanon Has Just Shattered a European Fiction @srodan, @MayaKhadra and @robertabonazzi in @MarianneleMag:
Hezbollah: Lebanon Has Just Shattered a European Fiction
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Rowing in the Same Direction The Need for and Risks of Allied Contributions to Reindustrialization Nathan Picarsic in @RCDefense:
Rowing in the Same Direction
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Squeezing Al-Qard Al-Hassan Could Weaken Hezbollah’s Chances of Survival @AhmadA_Sharawi and @DavidADaoud's analysis:
Squeezing Al-Qard Al-Hassan Could Weaken Hezbollah’s Chances of Survival
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