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Joe Biden

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I've just spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu to reaffirm America's ironclad commitment to the security of Israel. I told him that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks - sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.”

Whitehouse

President of the United States

13 Apr 2024 4 1

Dana Stroul

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“If Iran's objective was to punish and isolate Israel, it appears to have fallen well short of that objective. The U.S. and Israeli militaries were able to defend against a complex attack. Given how significant this attack was, it is difficult to see how Israel cannot respond.”

Nytimes

Senior Fellow at Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Formerly the Pentagon's top Middle East policy official

13 Apr 2024 3 2

Steffen Hebestreit

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“With this irresponsible and unjustifiable attack, Iran is risking a regional conflagration. In these difficult times, Germany stands closely by Israel. We will now discuss further reactions closely with our G7 partners and allies.”

Aje

German government spokesperson

13 Apr 2024 4 1

Stephane Sejourne

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“By deciding on such unprecedented action, Iran has reached a new level in its acts of destabilisation and is risking a military escalation.”

Aje

France’s Foreign Minister

13 Apr 2024 4 1

Justin Trudeau

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“These attacks demonstrate yet again the Iranian regime's disregard for peace and stability in the region. We support Israel's right to defend itself and its people from these attacks.”

Aje

Prime Minister of Canada

13 Apr 2024 6 1

Nader Hashemi

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Biden isn't looking for a Mideast war during an election year. The GOP [Republican Party] are another matter. If, however, Iran were to directly hit targets within Israel or an Israeli embassy somewhere in the world, then Biden would be under huge domestic pressure to respond militarily. If this should happen, we would be on the precipice of a wider regional war, and Netanyahu's plan for instigating this crisis will have come to fruition.”

Aje

Associate professor of Middle East and Islamic politics at Georgetown University

12 Apr 2024 9 3

Ali Vaez

Inserted 1 month ago

“By targeting an Iranian diplomatic facility, Israel has crossed a line. Iran's dilemma is that failure to respond could signal weakness to Israel, but retaliation risks a harsher US or Israeli action.”

Aje

International Crisis Group’s Iran Project Director and Senior Adviser to the President

02 Apr 2024 2 1

Jonas Horner

Inserted 1 month ago

“My impression is that there is momentum here - and my other accompanying sense is that it is in large part due to a boost in troops and technology that appears to be coming from Iran because the army can't get it from elsewhere. Many of the fighters battling the RSF are highly motivated Islamist forces seeking to reclaim Sudan. That ideological motivation counts for a lot next to those who are there for pay, as many RSF fighters are.”

Aljazeera

Expert on Sudan who has worked with various think tanks such as the International Crisis Group

15 Mar 2024 3 3

Eyal Pinko

Inserted 3 months ago

“Hezbollah had in particular helped the Houthis to build their naval capabilities. These include seven naval bases and 30 control posts along Yemen's coast that have radar and electro-optical directors for better control of missile launches. It's a massive coastal defense line for detection, and they're also using AIS (ship tracking) systems, and also intelligence from Iran. Among the unused weapons in the Houthis arsenal are Iranian-made Sadaf floating mines. While such munitions are relatively unsophisticated and easy to deploy, their impact on merchant shipping would be considerable if they were used in the Red Sea.”

Reuters

Former senior official with Israel's intelligence services until 2017 now working at Bar Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

02 Feb 2024 5 5

Renad Mansour

Inserted 3 months ago

“The groups in Baghdad's government are worried about Iraq becoming a playground in the wider regional conflict and have domestic reasons not to want to risk the status quo.”

Reuters

Researcher at the UK-based Chatham House

31 Jan 2024 2 2

Jon Finer

Inserted 3 months ago

“They [Houthis] have stockpiles of advanced weapons provided to them in many cases, or enabled to them in many cases, by Iran. We are taking out these stockpiles so that they will not be able to conduct as many attacks over time. That will take time to play out.”

Nytimes

Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States

21 Jan 2024 3 3

Hassan Ahmadian

Inserted 3 months ago

“Israelis have upped the ante of what they were doing beforehand. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been vocal about calls for an escalation. Israel is also ramping up its attacks to stave off attacks by Iran and allies in the region, however many of these groups are part of the axis of resistance and are doing so in their own national interests.”

Aljazeera

Professor at the University of Tehran

21 Jan 2024 2 2

Resul Serdar

Inserted 3 months ago

“Syria is not only a battleground of the power struggle between the regional and the global powers, but also is a ground for the intelligence wars as well. For Iran, Lebanon and particularly for Hezbollah, Syria is a crucial element in the so-called 'Axis of the Resistance', so that's why all their presence in Syria is kept secret.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist

20 Jan 2024 5 2

Qasim al-Araji

Inserted 3 months ago

“To respond to the claim that there is a Mossad headquarters we visited the place and toured every corner of this house, and everything indicates that it is a family house belonging to an Iraqi businessman from Erbil.”

Reuters

Iraq National Security Adviser

16 Jan 2024 4 2

Adrienne Watson

Inserted 4 months ago

“We know that Iran was deeply involved in planning the operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea. This is consistent with Iran's long-term material support and encouragement of the Houthis' destabilising actions in the region. This is an international challenge that demands collective action.”

Aljazeera

White House national security spokeswoman

22 Dec 2023 3 4

Jack Kennedy

Inserted 4 months ago

“The Houthi - and by extension their main military backer Iran - are probably using their strike capability in the Red Sea to further exercise greater geopolitical influence in the region, in addition to influence on Israel's war in Gaza.”

Reuters

Associate Director and Head of Desk, Country Risk – Middle East and North Africa, S&P Global Market Intelligence

18 Dec 2023 4 2

Emmanuel Karagiannis

Inserted 6 months ago

“Southern European countries, like Italy and Greece, are concerned about the ramifications of a wider regional war involving Iran that could create a massive refugee crisis. American and European leaders are firm supporters of the Abraham Accords normalising relations between Israel and some Arab countries. The current war in Gaza jeopardises the ongoing peace process in the Middle East at a time when the West needs to confront Russia in Ukraine and deter China over Taiwan.”

Aljazeera

International security expert from King’s College London

26 Oct 2023 12 1

Gideon Levy

Inserted 1 year ago

“The situation is extremely explosive. Unlike the former years, we are facing a very radical government, which is one hand quite powerful, and on the other very fragile, because the most radical parts of it are pushing for action that might turn out into a catastrophe. The scenes from the Al-Aqsa mosque were scenes not seen in recent years in their brutality and I think that any small match can set fire now to the whole area. Hopefully it will not happen, but nobody can guarantee this will not happen. There is no public argument about this [raids in Syria] in Israel and no information about it in Israel. Nobody knows why and what form and what is the price. One thing is clear. Israel is violating Syrian sovereignty and Israel is playing with fire with Iran. How long will the Syrians and the Iranians tolerate this?”

Aljazeera

Israeli journalist and author

09 Apr 2023 3 3

Abas Aslani

Inserted 1 year ago

“Iran and Saudi Arabia were previously mostly focused on rivalry and tensions, but now they are talking about focusing on common ground … stressing cooperation. But on the bilateral level, to what extent they can go ahead depends on how the Saudis act because Iran has been under economic sanctions by the West; that's why we have to see how they will proceed.”

Aljazeera

Senior researcher at the Tehran-based Center for Middle East Strategic Studies

06 Apr 2023 1 2

Mohammed Shia al-Sudani

Inserted 1 year ago

“We think that we need the foreign forces. Elimination of ISIS needs some more time. Inside Iraq we do not need combat forces. If there is a threat for Iraq, it is the penetration of the [ISIL] cells through Syria. I don't see this as an impossible matter, to see Iraq have a good relationship with Iran and the US.”

Aljazeera

Iraqi Prime Minister

15 Jan 2023 4 4

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“If Iran's objective was to punish and isolate Israel, it appears to have fallen well short of that objective. The U.S. and Israeli militaries were able to defend against a complex attack. Given how significant this attack was, it is difficult to see how Israel cannot respond.”

“With this irresponsible and unjustifiable attack, Iran is risking a regional conflagration. In these difficult times, Germany stands closely by Israel. We will now discuss further reactions closely with our G7 partners and allies.”

“By deciding on such unprecedented action, Iran has reached a new level in its acts of destabilisation and is risking a military escalation.”

“These attacks demonstrate yet again the Iranian regime's disregard for peace and stability in the region. We support Israel's right to defend itself and its people from these attacks.”

“By targeting an Iranian diplomatic facility, Israel has crossed a line. Iran's dilemma is that failure to respond could signal weakness to Israel, but retaliation risks a harsher US or Israeli action.”

“The groups in Baghdad's government are worried about Iraq becoming a playground in the wider regional conflict and have domestic reasons not to want to risk the status quo.”

“They [Houthis] have stockpiles of advanced weapons provided to them in many cases, or enabled to them in many cases, by Iran. We are taking out these stockpiles so that they will not be able to conduct as many attacks over time. That will take time to play out.”

“To respond to the claim that there is a Mossad headquarters we visited the place and toured every corner of this house, and everything indicates that it is a family house belonging to an Iraqi businessman from Erbil.”

“The Houthi - and by extension their main military backer Iran - are probably using their strike capability in the Red Sea to further exercise greater geopolitical influence in the region, in addition to influence on Israel's war in Gaza.”

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