2025-10-15
1 小时 25 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Good evening everyone.
It's great to have you here with us tonight.
It's great to see all those folks up in the top there as well.
My name's Peter Tribowitz.
I'm a professor in the International Relations Department, which is hosting this evening's roundtable discussion.
I'm also the director of the Fallon United States Center here at the school.
So the title for tonight's roundtable was written well before the Trump administration joined Israel in striking.
Iranian nuclear facilities last June.
At the LSE for these kinds of events you have to put in your proposal at least a half a year in advance and many events have died as a result at the moment but here I think coming on the heels of a broader collapse in Tehran's strategic posture in the region mounting economic distress and political discontent in Iran.
And now, I think intensifying pressure on the Trump administration to somehow capitalize on the ceasefire in Gaza, the title for tonight's roundtable is, I think, even more apt and more urgent.
What might we expect from the Trump administration on Iran?
I mean, How much stock should we put in Trump's speech earlier this week, Monday, of all places where he says he wants to make a deal with Iran?
That was a speech in front of the Israeli Knesset.
How will Tehran define its national interest in this new strategic landscape?
These are big and important questions for the region, but for well beyond two.
Unfortunately, we have three very seasoned experts here with us tonight to help us get a better fix, I think, on US-Iranian relations, where they're headed, and what it might mean for the larger region.
And starting nearest to me is Dr. Sunam Bakil, the director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House and the James Anderson professorial lecturer in Middle East studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna at SICE.
Next to her is Dr. Dana Allen, who is the editor of the Journal of Survival, Global Politics and Strategy, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which is like a block or two from here, and an adjunct professor at SICE as well in Bologna.