Join us on March 5 for an urgent webinar on the Iran War.
Thursday, March 5, 202612:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific Time)Webinar
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12:00 AM Pacific / 3:00 PM Eastern / 20:00 UK / 22:00 Israel–Palestine
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Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development.
About the Event
Last Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel attacked Iran, killing the Ayatollah Khamenei and other regime political and military leaders, targeting the country's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and destroying other military targets. Iran responded with missile and drone attacks against Israel, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. As of this writing, the war is still ongoing and the outcome is unknown. Will the Islamic regime fall? Will the Iranians be able to inflict significant losses on Israel and US assets in the region? What are the short- and medium-term likely scenarios for Iran, for Israel and the region?
Click here to read Behnam Ben Tabeblu's recent piece in Foreign Affairs about regime change in Iran.
About the Speaker
Behnam Ben Taleblu is senior director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' (FDD) Iran Program, where he oversees the breadth and depth of FDD’s work on Iran in addition to serving as a senior fellow specializing in Iranian security and political issues. For well over a decade, Behnam has supported FDD’s Iran program as a senior fellow, research fellow, and senior Iran analyst. Prior to his time at FDD, Behnam worked on non-proliferation issues at an arms control think tank in Washington. Leveraging his subject-matter expertise and native Persian-language skills, Behnam closely tracks a wide range of Iran-related functional and regional topics including nuclear non-proliferation, ballistic missiles and drones, sanctions, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies, the foreign and security policy of the Islamic Republic, and internal Iranian politics. Frequently called upon to brief journalists, congressional staff, diplomatic, military, academic, and policy audiences in Washington, across the United States, and around the world, Behnam has testified before various committees in the U.S. Congress, the Canadian Parliament, and the UK House of Commons. Behnam’s analysis has been quoted in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Fox News, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Politico, and Axios, among others.
DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.
Sponsor(s): Center for Middle East Development