FDD Morning Brief
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Keeping up with the Qataris | feat. Max Lesser
Keeping up with the Qataris | feat. Max Lesser
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The Middle East never stops moving. Neither does the FDD Morning Brief.
Three mornings a week, FDD Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer cuts through the noise with the experts who have spent their careers studying, shaping, and living the region’s most consequential moments. All before your morning coffee gets cold.
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- Keeping up with the Qataris | feat. Max Lesser · 27 minHeadlines: • On Wednesday, the State Department sanctioned three targets involved in smuggling man portable air defense systems, or “MANPADS,” to Iran. • Yemen’s internationally…
- Midterm election postmortem | feat. Tyler Stapleton · 23 minHeadlines: • Yemen’s internationally recognized government said yesterday that 21 Iranian and Hezbollah operatives are in Yemen overseeing Houthi military operations. •…
- The state of the STC | feat. Amr Al-Bidh · 27 minHeadlines: • Qatar continues to try and prevent a return to fighting between the U.S. and Iran. • British police arrested 139 people over the weekend as hundreds of protestors…
- Rewriting the U.S.-Israel MOU | feat. Samuel Ben-Ur · 28 minHeadlines: • Qatar is reportedly hard at work trying to avert renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran after the midterm elections next week. • The Houthis may be lacing their…
- Israel goes to the polls | feat. Lahav Harkov · 28 minHeadlines: • Russia is reportedly helping the Houthis and Iran-backed militias in Iraq target Saudi Arabia’s military and energy infrastructure. • Last week, Libya and Turkey…
- The battle for the Eastern Med | feat. Steven Cook · 28 minHeadlines: • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is reeling from an attack on a Greek Orthodox church on Friday afternoon. • Hamas appears to be issuing threats that it likely cant…
- The new rules of warfare | feat. Ryan Brobst · 29 minHeadlines: • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Ankara yesterday on the first-ever bilateral visit to Turkey for a Canadian prime minister. • UN Secretary-General…
- Doha's duplicitous game | feat. Eitan Fischberger · 25 minHeadlines: • The UK is sending fighter jets to support Saudi Arabia in its fight against the Houthis. • Pakistan’s military chief Field Marshal Asim Munir was in Tehran…
- France under fire | feat. Simone Rodan-Benzaquen · 27 minHeadlines: • Egypt’s National Defense Council agrees to provide Saudi Arabia with all necessary support in its war against the Houthis. • Saudi Arabia on Saturday announced that…
- Tehran's AI-powered propaganda | feat. Jacob Breach · 29 minHeadlines: • The U.S. is allegedly considering dropping the “mother of all bombs” on Iran. Technically, it’s called the Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, or MOAB, and it’s the…
- Al-Sharaa's Syria | feat. Andrew Tabler · 26 minHeadlines: • Yesterday, the Saudi-led coalition struck a Yemeni oil facility in Sanaa. • The Iranian regime is using the pause in fighting to get ready for the next round. •…
- Turkey helps Iran fly under the radar | feat. Ahmad Sharawi · 27 minHeadlines: • Yemen’s armed forces, the ones loyal to the internationally recognized government in Southern Yemen, said they carried out 1,732 strikes against positions held by…
- Three years after October 7 | feat. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus · 27 minHeadlines: • Israel decided to downgrade the UK’s consulate in Jerusalem, but stopped short of fully closing the diplomatic post. • Taiwan has its sights on $130 billion worth…
- This all-female IDF tank unit battled Hamas on October 7 | feat. Karni Guez · 30 minHeadlines: • The Houthis aren’t slowing down their offensive and continue to do damage in Saudi Arabia. • Representatives from the Mecca pact — Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and…
- 47 years of war with Iran | feat. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) · 26 minHeadlines: • Members of the Mecca defense pact are planning to meet in Riyadh today. • Yesterday, Yemeni forces launched a military campaign to retake territory seized by the…
- Beirut battles for its future | feat. Ronnie Chatah · 29 minHeadlines: • The Trump administration overrode the human rights conditions on $320 million worth of military aid to Egypt. • American troops are officially out of Iraq. • The…
- Is the UN rotten beyond reform? | feat. Ambassador Jeff Bartos · 27 minHeadlines: • Iran’s currency plummeted to a new low yesterday. We’re talking over 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar. • Iran is reportedly offering cash rewards for anyone who…
- Lebanon's sovereignty paradox | feat. Bilal Saab · 28 minHeadlines: • The internationally recognized government in Aden says it killed or injured 2,316 Houthis over the last 72 hours. • Iran’s Rev Guards said yesterday that they…
- The Divided Nations | feat. Ben Cohen · 29 minHeadlines: • China has reportedly sent tons of dual-use components to Iran for use in missiles and drones. • Iran is once again threatening to attack its neighbors, this time…
- The Houthis' Saudi siege | feat. Edmund Fitton-Brown · 29 minHeadlines: • The UK has agreed to help Saudi Arabia fight the Houthis by providing aerial refueling services to Saudi planes for the next few weeks. • The Trump administration…
- China steals America's AI edge | feat. Leah Siskind · 29 minHeadlines: • The State Department approved the potential sale of dozens of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia yesterday. • French President Emmanuel Macron met with Jordan’s King…
- Tehran squeezes Riyadh | feat. Bernard Haykel · 29 minHeadlines: • Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is in Beijing today to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi. • A Russian bank just got dinged by the US Treasury for…
- The truth about America's munitions crisis | feat. Mark Cancian · 16 minBradley Bowman, senior director of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP), fills in for Jonathan Schanzer, providing timely situational updates and analysis ahead of…
- 25 years after 9/11 | feat. Bruce Hoffman · 29 minHeadlines: • The Houthis seized the Yemeni port of Mokha yesterday, days after launching a combinedballistic missile and drone attack in Saudi Arabia. • President Trump warned…
- The beauty queen of wartime Jerusalem | feat. Swell Ariel Or · 30 minHeadlines: • Yesterday, the Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia, setting oil facilities on fire and wounding at least 73 people. • The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency…
- The FBI's war on terror financing | feat. Lara Burns · 29 minHeadlines: • Russia is helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles. • Remember the Gaza flotilla? Well, it’s back. Leaders from the so-called “Freedom Flotilla Coalition”…
- The ABCs of foreign funding in K-12 | feat. Brandy Shufutinsky · 27 minHeadlines: • Lebanese President Joseph Aoun petitioned Greece to help implement a future peace agreement with Israel, which would see the Lebanese Armed Forces, or “LAF,” disarm…
- Israel's post-October 7 election | feat. Yohanan Plesner · 29 minHeadlines: • USAID, the US Agency for International Development,released a new report on Friday, confirming what we already knew — namely, that UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works…
- The Israel-Turkey collision course | feat. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak · 28 minHeadlines: • Kuwait and Pakistan signed a military cooperation agreement yesterday, building on a deal signed in 2023. • The IDF is poised to surge troops into the West Bank as…
- Economic D-Day against Tehran | feat. Miad Maleki · 27 minHeadlines: • China blasted the United States after the Trump administration rolled out Operation Economic Outcast, its new pressure campaign to completely isolate Iran from the…
- The elusive exit from the Iran war | feat. Jonathan Tobin · 27 minHeadlines: • Some mixed messages out of Iran’s rump regime. We’ve got President Masoud Pezeshkian saying that a new MOU is the best way out of the war. He warned that the…
- Syria's Russian reconstruction | feat. Anna Borshchevskaya · 26 minHeadlines: • The Trump Administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s president and top lawyer over their egregious, corrupt, politicized conduct. • The United…
- War and the Board of Peace | feat. Shira Efron · 30 minHeadlines: • The U.S. and Israel have agreed to establish two Gaza working groups: one related to Hamas disarmament and the other to public health in the Strip. • Russia is…
- Toppling Tehran | feat. Emily Schrader · 30 minHeadlines: • The rump regime in Iran claims that the government of Qatar is holding three of its pilots that were shot down in the open stages of the most recent war. • The…
- A university blooms in wartime Israel | feat. Daniel Chamowitz · 30 minHeadlines: • A tense situation is playing out in the West Bank village of Qusra. Israeli settlers, or perhaps not settlers but anarchists, depending upon who you talk to,have…
- Congress' MidEast mindset | feat. Laura Kelly · 29 minHeadlines: • U.S. forces fired on a Panama-flagged ship early Tuesday for running Washington's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, hitting its rudder after the crew ignored…
- The impact of the Mecca pact | feat. Steven Cook · 28 minHeadlines: • The IDF and the Shin Bet have acknowledged that a special unit has been established to hunt down and kill every single Palestinian terrorist involved in the October…
- The deal with disarming Hamas | feat. Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib · 28 minHeadlines: • Mossad chief Roman Gofman has removed two of the agency's top officials over their role in a failed plan to topple Iran's regime. • Speaking of the regime: Iran's…
- Israel between war and politics | feat. Nadav Eyal · 27 minHeadlines: • Syria reportedly agreed to decrease its Russian oil imports. • The International Monetary Fund, or “IMF,” announced a new technical assistance program for the…
- The rise of the Axis of Aggressors | feat. Bradley Bowman · 27 minHeadlines: • Two more Iranian nationals have been executed by the regime for allegedly spying on behalf of Israel. • Reports are swirling in the region that the Saudis may need…
- Iran's conflict calculus | feat. Norman Roule · 21 minHeadlines: • Last night President Trump announced that Hamas had agreed to give up its weapons and hand over power in Gaza to the newly established National Committee for the…
- America's next strategic test | feat. LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster · 28 minBradley Bowman, senior director of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP), fills in for Jonathan Schanzer, providing timely situational updates and analysis ahead of…
- Defusing Iran's nuclear ambitions | feat. Richard Goldberg · 27 minFDD 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…
- Digging into Pickaxe Mountain | feat. Ilan Berman · 28 minHeadlines: • Greece is planning to buy a multi-layer air defense system, drones, and other military aircraft from Israel. • Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs is pushing to…
- The MidEast view from Capitol Hill | feat. Alexandria Paolozzi Moore · 27 minHeadlines: • The Lebanese Armed Forces started deploying troops to areas in south Lebanon formerly held by the IDF. • The Iran-backed Houthis sent an email blast to shipping…
- Testing the waters of Hormuz | feat. Behnam Ben Taleblu · 28 minHeadlines: • The Israelis were forced to activate their air defenses on Saturday night as an Iranian missile hurtled toward Aqaba, the southern Jordanian city that is nestled…
- Britain's belated reckoning with the IRGC | feat. Robin Simcox · 29 minHeadlines: • The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned seven companies and individuals that are part of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ weapons procurement network. • Iran…
- Lebanon's Sisyphean struggle with Hezbollah | feat. Hagar Chemali · 29 minHeadlines: • The regime in Iran publicly hanged two people accused of membership to the Islamic State. Yes, you got that right. The world’s most prolific state sponsor of…
- The fire that barely ceased | feat. Miad Maleki · 27 minHeadlines: • Sad news on Sunday morning. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina passed away following a brief illness after returning from a trip to Ukraine. • Iraqi prime…
- Inside Israel's Operation Arnon | feat. Hannah Puder · 25 minFDD Senior Fellow Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus fills in for Jonathan Schanzer, providing timely situational updates and analysis ahead of a conversation with documentary…
