Join us for a program examining "The Domestic Crisis in Iran" with Barbara Slavin. This will be our first breakfast briefing of 2026, programs scheduled so those with a 9-5 can still attend. Please note this is a hybrid event - you have the option to attend in person or virtually. Registrations are required for all attendees. The event will focus on current events in Iran, including the protests and violent security forces' actions this year.
Barbara Slavin is a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington and a lecturer in international affairs at George Washington University. Prior to joining Stimson, she founded and directed the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council and led a bi-partisan task force on Iran. The author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontation (2007), she is a regular commentator on U.S. foreign policy and Iran on NPR, PBS and C-Span.
A career journalist, Slavin served as a columnist for Al-Monitor; assistant managing editor for world and national security at the Washington Times; senior diplomatic reporter for USA Today; Cairo and Beijing correspondent for The Economist and as an editor at the New York Times Week in Review. She covered such key foreign policy issues as the U.S.-led ‘war on terrorism,’ policy toward ‘rogue’ states, the Iran-Iraq war and the Arab-Israeli conflict. She has traveled to Iran nine times. Slavin also served as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she wrote Bitter Friends, and as a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she researched and wrote the report, Mullahs, Money and Militias: How Iran Exerts Its Influence in the Middle East.
Location
Setting: Hybrid DACOR Bacon House OR Online 1801 F St NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
