ERDOGAN'S NEO-OTTOMAN AMBITIONS

HEADLINE 1: The Palestinian Authority is still paying money to terrorists.

HEADLINE 2: The Trump administration continues to heap financial pressure on Iran.

HEADLINE 3: A construction project in Gaza seems to be in the works.

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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with FDD Turkey Program Senior Director Sinan Ciddi.

Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

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Featured FDD Pieces:

"Georgia is becoming Iran’s sanctions evasion hub" - Keti Korkiya, The Hill

"The US should stop indulging Hungary and Slovakia" - Ivana Stradner and Dalibor Rohac, Washington Examiner

"Saving the European-American marriage" - Clifford D. May, The Washington Times

HEADLINE 1: Iran wants to buy anti-ship missiles from China.

HEADLINE 2: India's prime minister touched down in Israel today.

HEADLINE 3: In case you missed it, Syria recently transferred thousands of ISIS prisoners to Iraq. 

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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Erin Molan, former television presenter for Sky News Australia and host of The Erin Molan Show.

Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

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Featured FDD Pieces:

"What if the Iranian Regime Is Stronger Than Trump Thinks?" - Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, The New York Times

"How Did the United States End Up on the Same Side as the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen?" - Bridget Toomey, FDD Insight

"The Islamic Republic’s Weaponization of Global Terror" - Mark Dubowitz and Edmund Fitton-Brown, The Iran Breakdown

FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with FDD Chief Executive Mark Dubowitz.

Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

AN ANCIENT CITY'S MODERN DIVIDE

HEADLINE 1: Iran and Russia held joint naval exercises in and around the Gulf of Oman.

HEADLINE 2: The European Union officially designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

HEADLINE 3: Israel carried out a large counterterrorism operation in the town of Hebron this week.

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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Yishai Fleisher, who serves as the international spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron.

Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

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Featured FDD Pieces:

"Europe Looks to Israeli Tech to Defend Tanks" - Brad Bowman and Justin Leopold-Cohen, Real Clear Defense

"Free Jimmy Lai!" - Cliff May, The Washington Times

"Ukraine, four years in" - LinkedIn Newsletter: This Week at FDD

HEADLINE 1: More countries are planning to contribute troops to the International Stabilization Force in Gaza.

HEADLINE 2: The Lebanese government provided an update on disarming Hezbollah.

HEADLINE 3: Qatar is taking some heat right now from an unlikely place: the Israeli left.

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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Andrew Tabler of The Washington Institute.

Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

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Featured FDD Pieces:

"Allies, Adversaries, and the Axis" - Bradley Bowman and LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, Foreign Podicy

"Did Iran Use Chemical Weapons on Protesters?" - Andrea Stricker (writing with Gregory D. Koblentz), The National Interest

"Trump could be missing the opportunity to rebuild the Navy efficiently and quickly" - RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, New York Post

FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Steve Hayes, CEO and editor of The Dispatch.

Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

HEADLINE 1: The United States smuggled thousands of Starlink internet terminals into Iran.

HEADLINE 2: Remember the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation? A security firm based in North Carolina called UG Solutions helped secure the group’s aid distribution sites. Well, UG Solutions might be coming back.

HEADLINE 3: Israel successfully completed new tests with its David’s Sling missile defense system.

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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Gaza native who serves as the founder and director of the Realign for Palestine project at the Atlantic Council.

Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

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Featured FDD Pieces:

"Egypt Tests Trump’s Pledge to Defend Persecuted Christians" - Mariam Wahba, Newsweek

"A few words of advice on Iran and Gaza" - Cliff May, The Washington Times

"Al Jazeera Centre for Studies: Academic Veneer Normalizing Terrorism" - Toby Dershowitz and Qatar expert Eitan Fischberger, FDD Insight

HEADLINE 1: Turkish forces aren’t leaving Syria anytime soon.

HEADLINE 2: Israel indicted two more individuals for allegedly spying on behalf of Iran.

HEADLINE 3: Indonesia is planning to participate in the International Stabilization Force in Gaza.

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FDD Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer provides timely updates and in-depth analysis of the latest Middle East headlines, followed by a conversation with FDD Senior Advisor Richard Goldberg.

Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

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Featured FDD Pieces:

"Whither the Hamas solidarity movement?" - Ben Cohen, JNS

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Houthis But Were Afraid to Ask" - Cliff May and Edmund Fitton-Brown, Foreign Podicy

"Weaponized Mass Migration" - RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe

FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA Iranian-targets officer and current FDD resident scholar.

Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

HEADLINE 1: Even with talks this weekend, Iran continues to escalate in the Middle East.

HEADLINE 2: Israel continues to even the score from October 7.

HEADLINE 3: And I really don’t like this: Egypt and Turkey signed a military cooperation agreement in Cairo.

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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Ghaith Al-Omari, senior fellow at The Washington Institute and former senior advisor to the Palestinian Authority.

Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

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Featured FDD Pieces:

"Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera?" - Toby Dershowitz and Asher Boiskin, The Cipher Brief

"Why Is the Trump Administration Wiring Venezuelan Oil Revenue to Qatar?" - Natalie Ecanow, The Dispatch

"Sudanese Army Breaks Key Siege as U.S. Leads Humanitarian Aid Push" - Mariam Wahba, FDD Policy Brief