Dr Sanam Vakil, Middle East programme director at Chatham House, offers geopolitical and regime-resilience analysis. Dr Burcu Ozcelik, Middle East security expert at RUSI, focuses on Iran’s security forces and regional fallout. Arash Azizi, Yale writer and lecturer, compares current politics to past protests. Kasra Naji, BBC Persian correspondent, provides on-the-ground reporting of protests and repression. They discuss protest origins, state crackdown, succession risks, and US-Iran dynamics.
