Jordan remains ‘last holdout’ as Iran looks to create new ‘terror front' on Israeli border

As Israel continues to brace itself under the threat of an imminent attack from Iran or its proxy forces, including Hamas and Hezbollah, security experts are sounding the alarm that Tehran has its sites set on Jordan as its next great "terror front."

"Jordan is the last holdout," Behnam Ben Taleblu, Iran expert and senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) told Fox News Digital. "It's the last bastion of the pro-Western or status quo order in the heartland of the northern part of the Middle East."

The security expert pointed to Iran’s growing influence and support for proxy fighters not only in Gaza, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, but further out across the Arabian Peninsula, including Yemen and Oman, where anti-Israel sentiment is on the rise.

"Increasingly, the regime has benefited from the rise in anti-Israel sentiment to cause instability in Jordan," Ben Taleblu said.

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Growing concern over how Tehran will use anti-Israeli sentiment in the Middle East coincided with a warning issued Monday by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, who said Iran was working "to establish a new eastern terror front against Israel’s major population centers."

The Israeli official said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is coordinating with "Hamas operatives in Lebanon to smuggle weapons and funds into Jordan" with the apparent aim of destabilizing the Israeli neighbor.

Katz said smuggled arms are transported across Jordan’s western border into the West Bank, known as Judea and Samaria, with a particular focus on refugee camps and the goal of establishing pro-Iranian sentiment as it has done in areas like Gaza and southern Lebanon.

"The Iranian axis of evil today