Will Elon Musk’s Starlink Transform Geopolitics? | Ilan Berman
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American Foreign Policy Council’s Ilan Berman gives us the 101 on the past, present, and possible future of the Iranian regime, Middle East geopolitics, and the potential for Starlink as a tool to topple authoritarian regimes.
· What do the Iranian dissidents want from the United States?
· Is the Iranian regime at a tipping point?
· The changing demographics in Iran
· How 1979 changed everything
· The CIA boogeyman
· Recapping U.S. – Iran historical relations
· “They’ve had a gun to Israel’s head for a while.”
· What’s the Iranian regime thinking now?
· The cold-hearted rationality of Middle East politics
· Why Iran might fast-track development of a nuclear bomb
· Three scenarios for a post-ayatollah Iran
· Why the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps isn’t going away
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