Forthcoming Weekly Webinar Offerings from the Middle East Forum for October 2 - October 6

Revealing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Activities in Britain
with David Rose
David Rose has just published ground-breaking investigative articles on the activities of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the United Kingdom. He revealed the IRGC’s plans to assassinate high-profile Jewish targets, its use of Iranian government-owned schools and mosques as propaganda hubs, British-Iranian academic scientific collaboration on military technology, and talks by at least eight IRGC commanders to students at British universities. His work has finally provoked a debate at the highest levels of the UK government to proscribe the IRGC.
Monday, October 2, 2023
1:00pm - 1:30pm ET
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David Rose is politics and investigations editor of the Jewish Chronicle. He has worked for national and international media organizations including the Guardian, Observer, Vanity Fair, Mail on Sunday and BBC TV current affairs, and is the author of six non-fiction books and a spy novel. He holds a degree in history from the University of Oxford.

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Iran and Hostage Diplomacy
with Nizar Zakka
Taking hostages has been a mainstay of the Iranian regime’s foreign policy since the U.S. embassy seizure in 1979, enabling it to extract concessions from the West (recall the $6 billion just paid for five hostages). What benefits has hostage taking brought Tehran? What harm has it done the West? What can the outside world do to end this practice?
Friday, October 6, 2023
1:00pm - 1:30pm ET
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Nizar Hakka, a Lebanese national with U.S. permanent-resident status, attended a conference on entrepreneurship in 2015 in Tehran – at the invitation of the Iranian Government. Kidnapped by the IRGC on his way to the airport, he spent almost four years in captivity. Upon his release, he established Hostage Aid Worldwide, a U.S. non-profit organization that assists “hostage victims and their families by providing insights on their cases, coordination with governments & UN bodies” and develops “a strategy to disrupt the hostage business model.” He holds a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Texas.