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Volume 15, Issue 10

"Outside what law? Is it permissible for Iran, which openly calls for our destruction, to organize the tools of slaughter for our destruction? Are we forbidden from defending ourselves? We are obviously permitted to do this."

---- Prime Minister Netanyahu reacted to IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi, March 5, 2023
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This Week's Featured Article
Azerbaijan’s Unifying Role in Turkish-Israeli Relations
By Joseph Epstein | March 9, 2023
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Israeli-Turkish relations have seen a steady rise in this past year. Last June, the two nations collaborated ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) to bust Iranian plots to kidnap and attack Israelis. Two months later, Israel and Turkey announced ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) the full restoration of diplomatic ties. And just last month, an Israeli mission saved the lives ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) of 19 Turks after a major earthquake in the southeast of the country. President Erdogan expressed ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) his gratitude to Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and said Turkey would never forget the aid Israel provided.

The small Caspian republic of Azerbaijan has been rooting from the sidelines. Given that both countries are crucial to its survival, Azerbaijan has made Turkish-Israeli normalization one of its main foreign policy goals.

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** Is it Too Late to Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb?
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 12 PM ET

According to the International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA), in less than 12 days, Iran will have enough highly enriched uranium for at least three nuclear bombs. The IAEA has detected traces of uranium particles at the Fordow Enrichment Facility at 83.7 percent, just a few days glide to the 90 percent level necessary for a nuclear bomb. The IAEA also has said that it can no longer reestablish any certainty regarding Iran’s activities under a revived JCPOA, such as the production of advanced centrifuges and heavy water, due to Iran’s decision in February 2021 to deny the IAEA access to data from key JCPOA-related monitoring and surveillance equipment and because of Iran’s decision in June 2022 to remove all such equipment, including video cameras and online enrichment monitoring devices.

Yet, on Saturday, March 4th, the IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other top officials in Tehran and gave vague assurances that these concerns would be addressed.

The questions remain: Can we trust the nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA? And can Iran be stopped from developing a nuclear bomb before it is too late?

About the Speaker: Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at FDD. From 2019-2020, Richard served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. He previously served as chief of staff for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and deputy chief of staff and senior foreign policy adviser to former U.S. Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois in both the U.S. House and Senate.

As a staff associate for the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations, Richard worked on a wide range of issues related to U.S. foreign assistance, including foreign military financing, international security assistance, international peacekeeping, development, global health and economic support funds. He was a founding staff director of the House U.S.-China Working Group and was among the first Americans ever to visit China’s human space launch center. A leader in efforts to expand U.S. missile defense cooperation with Israel, Richard played a key role in U.S. funding for the Arrow-3 program, Iron Dome and the deployment of an advanced missile defense radar to the Negev Desert.

In the Senate, Richard emerged as a leading architect of the toughest sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was the lead Republican negotiator for three rounds of sanctions targeting the Central Bank of Iran, the SWIFT financial messaging service, and entire sectors of the Iranian economy. Richard also drafted and negotiated legislation promoting human rights and democracy in Iran, including sanctions targeting entities that provide the Iranian regime with the tools of repression. His Iran sanctions work was featured in the book The Iran Wars.
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** What's behind the crisis in Iran over the suspected poisoning of schoolgirls? ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - NBC
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** Turkey, Syria, Iran to hold 'technical talks' in Russia next week ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID#ixzz7vTDHYBYK) - Al Monitor
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** Iran said to have supplied Russia with large shipment of ammunition ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** U.S. and Israel looking at Iran from "much closer point of view" ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Axios
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** US defence secretary warns of ‘unthinkable’ Iran-Russia military ties ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Financial Times
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** 3 wounded, including 1 critically, in central Tel Aviv terror shooting ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** Netanyahu blasts IAEA head for saying attack on Iran would be ‘illegal’ ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** Israel publicly blames Iran for cyberattack on major university last month ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** Israel engaging 4 Muslim nations to expand Abraham Accords ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Israel Hayom
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** Italy minister backs Israeli call to recognise Jerusalem as capital ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Reuters
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** Gaza terrorists fire rocket towards Israel, setting off sirens ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** Israeli forces kill six in raid on West Bank refugee camp ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Reuters
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** Hamas, Islamic Jihad condemn Turkey for hosting Herzog: ‘Abandonment of Palestine’ ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** Saudi Arabia Seeks U.S. Security Pledges, Nuclear Help for Peace With Israel ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Wall Street Journal
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** Shin Bet says it busted Turkey-based Hamas ring planning attacks in Israel ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** US, Saudi Arabia to conduct first counter-drone exercise without allies ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Al Monitor
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** U.S. And China Vie For Influence In This Vital Middle East Oil Hub ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Oil Price
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** Syria says Israeli jets strike Aleppo airport, shutting it down ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** The Vanishing: The erasure of Jews from American life ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Tablet Magazine
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** Citing Alleged ‘Apartheid,’ South African Parliament Votes to Downgrade Diplomatic Relations With Israel ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Algemeiner
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** Meet the Anti-Semitic Spiritual Guru on Cori Bush's Payroll ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Free Beacon
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** Georgia passes IHRA bill defining antisemitism, anti-Jewish hate crime ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Jerusalem Post
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** ‘Ending Antisemitism’: George Washington University Student Council Establishes Antisemitism Task Force ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Algemeiner
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** Preserving academic freedom at the University of Chicago ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** Italian Soccer Authorities Launch Investigation Into Lazio Fans Antisemitic Chant ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Algemeiner
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** State Department funds left-wing group behind protests against Israeli prime minister ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Washington Examiner
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** US backs Israel’s ‘legitimate right’ to fight terror following Jenin operation ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** US tells Benjamin Netanyahu that focus on West Bank distracts from Iran threat ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Financial Times
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** How U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides Became Israel’s Arsonist-in-Chief ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Tablet Magazine
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** U.S. defense secretary aims to reassure Mideast allies, deliver tough message ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=add0a98f87&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Reuters
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