On Friday, February 27, at 1:00 p.m. ET, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative and Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative will host a “Reporters at Risk” event on journalists’ efforts to report on the recent Iranian protests.
It would be impossible to cover the 2025-2026 protests and the Iranian government’s repressive response, which led to at least five thousand deaths, without the information distributed within and outside Iran by correspondents facing a government-initiated internet shutdown.
This event in our “Reporters at Risk” series will feature experts and journalists who covered the Iranian protests discussing how correspondents have remained resilient while facing physical, psychological, and political threats and technological challenges and why it matters for US foreign policy.
New policy: In-person attendees will be required to show photo ID upon arrival, and no on-site registration will be permitted. Guests will not be admitted later than twenty minutes after the event’s start time. Registration for this event will close at 5:00 p.m. ET the day prior.
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Speakers
Adrienne Arsht
Executive Vice Chair and Founder, Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
Atlantic Council
Holly Dagres
Libitzky Family Senior Fellow,
Viterbi Program on Iran and US Policy
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Nate Swanson
Resident Senior Fellow and Director, Iran Strategy Project, Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs
Atlantic Council
Additional speakers to be confirmed.
Moderated by
Andrew Peek
Director, Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
Atlantic Council
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