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March 18, 2025

Iran’s Plan to Destabilize Jordan and Attack Israel from the West Bank

Tehran hasn’t given up on proxy warfare.

An IDF raid on Sunday uncovered a cache of weapons near the West Bank city of Tulkarm—the latest development in the ongoing fight to keep the area from becoming another Gaza. Even before the current war began, Iran has been supporting jihadists in the vicinity, in the hope of expanding Hamas’s war to Israel’s eastern front and creating chaos on both sides of the Jordan River. Despite its losses in Lebanon and Syria, and the pounding its proxies are now taking in Yemen, Tehran has not lost sight of what Oded Ailam terms “its long-term vision of jihadist expansion.”

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