On November 11, Germany and Iceland, with the support of 44 other states, submitted an official request to convene a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to address the Iranian regime’s violent crackdown against more than two months of protests| The Soufan Center
Iran’s role in the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, a close ally of Tehran, continues to be contested, but there is no dispute that Iran set the stage for the Hamas attack by arming, training, and advising the group over several decades.| The Soufan Center
As a consequence of early November national elections, and after five elections in less than four years, Israel appears set to have the first stable government in several years. The elections have produced an unlikely comeback for Binyamin Netanyahu, who has been Prime Minister of Israel| The Soufan Center
Suggesting the existence of significant divisions within Iran’s regime, Iranian officials are altering their responses to try to quell a three-month long uprising that began with the mid-September death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, while in the custody of Iran’s morality police| The Soufan Center
