The Critical Threats Project releases a weekly update and assessment on Iran and the al Qaeda network.
Key Takeaways:
- Iranian officials demanded immediate sanctions relief and rejected the P5+1’s proposal for IAEA-led military site inspections as part of the nuclear framework agreement, which Supreme Leader Khamenei has neither supported nor opposed.
- Al Houthis lost ground to anti-al Houthi militias in Aden and Abyan but expanded into Shabwah where they seized the governorate’s capital, Ataq.
- The Kenyan government continues to target al Shabaab militants both in Kenya and Somalia following the April 2 Garissa University attack.