An experienced Middle East hand, Metreweli has the right CV to deal with hybrid warfare attacks emerging from Iran. But historical flaws in the UK’s strategy towards the country, highlighted in a recent parliamentary committee report, may be making her job harder.
In an effort to break the deadlock in US-Iran talks, several countries have offered to mediate on the thorny issue of Tehran’s enriched uranium. After Moscow, Paris also offered to help, but to no avail.
For an intelligence director whose relationship with the White House is struggling, security concerns are necessarily compounded by political considerations. But Tulsi Gabbard’s main tool, the National Counterterrorism Center, is still reeling from a year of upheavals.
While electoral interference is less evident in France than in other G7 states, the country appears to be one of the most vulnerable democracies, an upcoming report by Canadian think tank MIGS on the CCP’s influence operations concludes. The study comes ahead of a meeting of G7 leaders in Evian in mid-June.
The Pentagon is increasingly classifying information relating to Iran and certain other countries of particular concern to the US administration at a much higher level, sharply limiting its circulation within the executive branch and Congress.
Although Israel has not yet officially responded to symbolic Houthi rocket attacks following the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, a series of blasts at rebel military sites suggest possible covert operations.
The GUR has in recent weeks focused its investigations on Rayana, a new unit affiliated with Chechen Akhmat special forces that has started deploying FPV drones and electronic warfare capabilities across sections of the front.
Frustrated by what he sees as insufficient results from the anti-corruption campaign within the People’s Liberation Army, the Chinese president summoned the sole surviving member of the Central Military Commission to urge him to get the job done.
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