Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.

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Iran’s parliament speaker has threatened to attack Israel and US military and shipping targets if the US were to launch a strike on the country, which is increasingly isolated from the world by its theocratic regime. As nationwide protests reached the two-week mark today, we discuss how Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi is trying to position himself as a player in his country’s future and at the nexus between the anti-regime protests and Israel.

The US military said on Saturday that it had carried out multiple strikes in Syria targeting the Islamic State terror group as part of an operation that Washington launched shortly after an attack on American personnel on December 13. At the same time, after talks in Paris last week,........

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