1 Institute for the Study of War and AEI’s Critical Threats Project 2023
Iran Update, November 7, 2023
Peter Mills, Brian Carter, Kathryn Tyson, Johanna Moore, Annika Ganzeveld, Amin Soltani, and
Nicholas Carl
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The Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability
and threaten US forces and interests. It also covers events and trends that affect the stability and decision-making of the
Iranian regime. The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of
War (ISW) provides these updates regularly based on regional events. For more on developments in Iran and the region,
see our interactive map of Iran and the Middle East.
Note: CTP and ISW has refocused the update to cover the Israel-Hamas war. The new sections address developments in
the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as noteworthy activity from Iran’s Axis of Resistance. We do
not report in detail on war crimes because these activities are well-covered in Western media and do not directly affect
the military operations we are assessing and forecasting. We utterly condemn violations of the laws of armed conflict and
the Geneva Conventions and crimes against humanity even though we do not describe them in these reports.
Click here to see CTP and ISW’s interactive map of Israeli ground operations. This map is updated daily alongside the
static maps present in this report.
Key Takeaways:
1. Israeli forces entered the northern outskirts of al Shati refugee camp in the northwestern
Gaza Strip, according to local and Axis of Resistance-affiliated reporting as well as geolocated
footage.
2. Hamas and other Palestinian militants are continuing their attacks against the IDF behind
the Israeli forward line of advance, which is consistent with the nature of clearing
operations.
3. CTP-ISW recorded seven indirect fire attacks into Israel, five of which targeted Israeli
military facilities.
4. The al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade conducted eight attacks on Israeli forces in the West Bank after
threatening revenge for an Israeli raid that killed fighters from the al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade
and Hamas.
5. Iranian-backed militants continued cross-border attacks into northern Israel at their normal
rate.
6. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed
responsibility for four attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria.
7. UK-based outlet Amwaj Media reported that senior Axis of Resistance officials traveled to
Iran in the summer of 2023 to establish a regional joint operations room.
8. Iranian officials are continuing their attempts to rally the Arab and Muslim world against
Israel.
