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SUMMARY:What is Happening Right Now Inside the Islamic Republic of Iran?
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here. \n  \nAs I write these words\,  negotiators between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have just begun in Oman over their nuclear program. Yet\, beginning on December 28\, 2025\, millions of protesters have poured into the streets in over 400 cities throughout Iran. One of the immediate reasons was that the rial has been profoundly devalued. Today it is approximately 42 thousand rials per dollar. Iranians are also suffering a tremendous water drought. They turn on the tap\, and nothing comes out.  However\, what most of the Iranians want  desperately are their basic human rights and freedoms. Yet the huge tidal wave for a counter-revolution on the streets of Iran has been met with unparalleled\, brutal force.  According to the National Union of Democracy in Iran\, at least 40\,000 protesters have been left murdered on the streets\, crying out for the very freedoms we cherish in the United States. \nIf the United States fails to act\, will this simply serve to embolden and further empower the Islamist Republic and all of the terror proxies throughout the region? Will this forever be a black stain on America’s moral legacy? How might this serve to empower Hezbollah\, Hamas\, and the Houthis? \n\nAbout our Speaker: Khosro Isfahani is NUFDI’s research director. He is a journalist and open-source investigator working on all things Iran with a focus on human rights\, security\, and armed forces. \nBetween 2009 and 2021\, he worked in Iran as a frontline human rights defender in addition to his journalism work\, delivering rapid aid to at-risk communities while documenting human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed by the Islamic Republic. While in Iran\, he directly and indirectly worked with international media\, human rights groups\, and the United Nations. \nKhosro left Iran in 2021 for a position at BBC Monitoring\, where he was a lead analyst and reporter on Iran until 2023. At BBCM\, he covered state killings and violence against protesters\, along with military and security developments linked to Iran. \nIn 2023\, he moved to the United States for a teaching position at Colby College in Maine\, where he served as a professor and the human rights fellow with the Oak Institute and taught two courses on human rights and the modern history of Iran. \nAfter his time at Colby\, Khosro joined the Atlantic Council in 2024\, leading the organization’s open-source investigation of human rights and international law violations committed by individuals within and linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran. His work with the Atlantic Council included in-depth investigations and publications with the University of Berkeley Human Rights Center and UCLA’s Promise Institute. \nKhosro’s work has been published by various media outlets and American think tanks\, including Atlantic Council’s IranSource\, BBC World Service\, BBC Monitoring\, Slate\, and Financial Tribune\, along with rights groups such as Article 19. He has also contributed to the United Nations’ reporting on Iran. \nHis work includes reporting on social movements in Iran as well as state violence against protestors and persecution of marginalized communities. As an analyst\, he tracks the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regional ambitions\, military activity\, and arms development; nuclear program; domestic\, security\, and foreign policy\, along with war crimes committed by the regime and its proxies.
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SUMMARY:Israel 2048: A Blueprint for a Rising Asymmetric Geopolitical Power
DESCRIPTION:The transcript will be available here.  \n  \nWhat does the state of Israel require to survive? In previous decades\, the Israeli national security and defense establishments had assumed that status quo management was all that it took. Post October 7th\, 2023\,  we have come to realize that defensive restraint and geostrategic risk no longer serve Israel’s interests. However\, power projection across the Middle East\, combined with technological primacy\, should be at the core of a new technological golden triangle. Beyond that\, the core mission of the Israeli civilization is to adopt a multidimensional approach as a spiritual anchor of not only Judeo-Christian and the Judeo-Islamic identity\, which involves\, as a first step\, articulating a Jewish civilizational national mission. Alongside this\, Israel requires a national strategy that integrates deterrence\, diplomacy\, technology\, and economic policy with a military doctrine  that adheres to sustained action against emerging military and national security threats. \nA new study aims to jolt Israel’s security and technology establishment into embracing a new post-Oct. 7\, 2023\, business model that will advance the U.S.-Israel strategic partnership in the heart of the Middle East and across the globe. \nThe Henry Jackson Society study titled “Israel 2048: A Blueprint for a Rising Asymmetric Geopolitical Power” jumps into the future\, with a view toward advancing American and Israeli security interests. \nRead more with Fox News here. \nAbout our Speakers: \n Barak M. Seener is an Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and the founder of Strategic Intelligentsia and the Gulf Futures Forum. Barak has also co-hosted the Geo-Godfather Wars Podcast on geopolitical affairs. Prior to that\, Barak was a Global Intelligence Manager at HSBC and the Middle East Fellow at the Royal United Service Institute. Barak has staged the world’s first and highly successful conference in London on Palestinian statehood. He has published a book in 2018 entitled\, “Commercial Risks Entering the Iranian Market: Why Sanctions make Investment in the Islamic Republic of Iran a High-Risk Proposition.” Barak has published and provided analysis to Al-Jazeera\, BBC\, CNN\, Chinese CCTV\, Fox New\, Sky News\, Voice of America\, and news outlets such as Bloomberg\, Reuters\, Associated Press\, The Evening Standard\, Newsweek\, The National Interest\, The American Interest\, and Jane’s Islamic Affair Analyst. \nDavid Wurmser is the executive and founding member of the Delphi Global Analysis Group\, LLC. Dr. Wurmser served as senior advisor to the US National Security Advisor\, Ambassador John Bolton\, from December 2018 until September 2019.  He has also served from 2003 to 2007 as senior advisor to Vice-President Richard Cheney. Dr. Wurmser is also a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Foreign and Security Affairs in Israel and at the Center for Security Policy in Washington\, DC. His diplomatic positions have included participating in high-level strategic discussions with Israel and Jordan\, coordinating with foreign governments on Iran policy\, participating with the US negotiating team at several Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meetings and conferences\, and helping to negotiate basic rights in key countries\, such as Qatar\, prior to the 2003 Iraq War. Dr. Wurmser also founded the Middle East Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute. Dr. Wurmser published “Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein”\, (which the New Yorker called “the intellectual framework for President Bush’s freedom strategy in the Middle East.”  He has published over 35 articles in major periodicals\, including The Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, and Commentary. Dr. Wurmser’s military service includes 11 years of intelligence experience in the US Navy Reserves\, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
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