January 3 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Iran Steps Up Its Proxy War Against Israel and the U.S. https://youtu.be/tB047rry64g Iran has been at war with Israel and the U.S. for decades but October 7th began a multifront escalation that appears to be a turning point in its willingness to fund, train, and weaponize regional terrorism at an alarming rate and level. Iranian-backed terrorists across the region - Hamas and Palestinian Islamic […]
April 16 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Emergency Briefing on Iran’s Attack on Israel https://youtu.be/dH6jSPftNtk <p data-pm-slice="1 1 About the Speaker: Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Behnam previously served as a research fellow and senior Iran analyst at FDD. Prior to his time at FDD, Behnam worked on non-proliferation issues at an arms […]
July 10 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Behnam Ben Taleblu on the Elections in Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jXh5v9kliQ READ TRANSCRIPT HERE On Friday, the people of Iran went to the polls and elected the “moderate reformer” candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, defeating Ayatollah Khamenei’s favored candidate, Saeed Jalili, in a race to replace former President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19th. The election saw a surge in turnout, with […]
September 18 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Deterring Iran’s Dash to the Bomb https://youtu.be/5h4hJjachog?si=rWJerVoka0cAG7cL Transcript will be available here While America is preoccupied with electoral politics and Israel is bogged down in war with Iranian terrorist proxies, it appears as if the Islamic Republic may be making a mad dash to complete its quest for nuclear weapons. Some intelligence officials believe that Iran is expediting its […]
December 4 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Behnam Ben Taleblu on the Iranian Nuclear Program and Its Return to a Policy of “Murder for Hire” https://youtu.be/KANNabi_gkI?si=VztxMJ1Y1kXNrL2p The transcript will be available here Since the October 25th Israeli attack on an Iranian nuclear research facility in Parchin, how significant is the damage done to the Islamic Republic’s ability to strike out against Israel? Does the Islamic Republic want to engage with the state of Israel and perhaps her allies in […]