Bringing together complementary perspectives on Iran and the wider Middle East is Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent whose decades of frontline reporting across Iran, Afghanistan and the region bring both rare human insight and global authority. She is joined by Maryam Alemzadeh, Professor in the History and Politics of Iran, whose insight into the country’s internal political dynamics and state–society relations is unparalleled, and Jon Lee Anderson, one of the world’s foremost frontline chroniclers of conflict and power. Chaired by The Guardian journalist David Shariatmadari, this discussion takes the audience behind the headlines to understand what is really at stake.
