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Domestic politics will be a key factor in how far things escalate between Israel and Iran

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Friday, April 19, 2024
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Following Iran’s barrage of drone and missile attacks on April 13, Israel has retaliated and conducted a strike attack near the city of Isfahan in southern Iran.

Key Points: 
  • Following Iran’s barrage of drone and missile attacks on April 13, Israel has retaliated and conducted a strike attack near the city of Isfahan in southern Iran.
  • Both sides have now matched each other in striking targets within each other’s national border.
  • However, details of the extent of any damage done by Israel’s strike are disputed and are being played down by Iran.

The politics of status

  • Domestic issues can play an important role here, in how the political and military elites of both states decide to react.
  • Despite the majority of the Israeli public being in favour of the campaign to eradicate Hamas in Gaza, he remains unpopular.
  • Hence there are good reasons for him to respond military to the challenge posed by Iran.

Regime forged in war

  • Historically, the trauma of war has been used by the Islamic Republic to foster nationalism among the population.
  • Following the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the loss of Iranian life, which totalled in the hundreds of thousands, played a huge role in cementing “the formation and empowerment of the Islamic Republic”.
  • Militarily contesting Israel can be perceived as a means of solidifying the regime’s position internally and enhancing the country’s image within the region.
  • At present, neither side has the ability to send an expeditionary force into each other’s territory.


Ben Soodavar does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Iran's Cyber Assault on America, a publication from the Enemy of the State Book Series, Warns of the Ayatollah's Increasing "Soft War" Activities Against America

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Saturday, April 30, 2022
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Emboldened by the attack on the Natanz nuclear facility in 2010 by the United States and Israel with the Stuxnet virus, Iran is hitting America with a wave of cyberattacks that just keep coming.

Key Points: 
  • In Iran's Cyber Assault on America, Charles Denyer chronicles Iran's nefarious cyber-attacks against the United States, while also offering his personal perspective on the immense challenges that lie ahead from this growing cyber threat.
  • From universities to underground tech communities, Iran's cyber capabilities are on the move, using their newfound digital weapons against the United States.
  • Iran's Cyber Assault on America chronicles the origins of the Ayatollah's "soft war" doctrine calling for cyber warfare and the relentless barrage of attacks now playing out against the United States by Iranian hackers.
  • He is an established author, with multiple books currently in print, along with being the personal biographer to three US vice presidents.

Kronos Fusion Energy Highlights Fusion's Security Advantages Over Fission in War Zones

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Thursday, March 31, 2022
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However, with viable fusion tokamak reactors nearing reality, thanks to projects like Kronos Fusion's deep learning design and testing simulations, its superior security proves added advantage of fusion over fission.

Key Points: 
  • However, with viable fusion tokamak reactors nearing reality, thanks to projects like Kronos Fusion's deep learning design and testing simulations, its superior security proves added advantage of fusion over fission.
  • Ordinary uranium lacks the isotope concentration needed for practical fission, about 3% to 5% compared to natural uranium's 0.7% concentration.
  • Kronos Fusion plans to give America a significant lead on rivals like China with the quantum computing and machine learning simulations to operate at its Fusion Energy Commercialization Centers .
  • If successful, this will free America from the vulnerable, polluting technological shackles of uranium enrichment, instead achieving safe, clean, secure, and practically limitless fusion energy generation.

BlackSky’s Technology Leveraged to Monitor Secretive Iranian Nuclear Facility

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
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With BlackSkys assistance, the research team was able to witness trucks emerging from the facilitys underground tunnels.

Key Points: 
  • With BlackSkys assistance, the research team was able to witness trucks emerging from the facilitys underground tunnels.
  • The pair enlisted two highly skilled principal research assistants in geospatial science to develop a sophisticated and innovative situational-intelligence program to monitor the Natanz nuclear facility.
  • Natanz is Iran's primary facility for advanced uranium enrichment and is an active political and military location driven by concerns about the countrys nuclear operations.
  • BlackSkys monitoring service, Spectra AI, is powered by cutting-edge compute techniques including machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and natural language processing.