Podcast Episodes

No Country for Old Mullahs

Season 2 Episode 11

📺: Watch this episode on YouTube here.

Before new episodes of The Iran Breakdown return (soon!), we’re bringing you a riveting discussion from our sister podcast, Foreign Podicy, featuring FDD's Behn…

Published on 12 hours ago

No Country for Old Mullahs

Season 2 Episode 11

📺: Watch this episode on YouTube here.

Before new episodes of The Iran Breakdown return (soon!), we’re bringing you a riveting discussion from our sister podcast, Foreign Podicy, featuring FDD's Behn…

Published on 12 hours ago

Iran and the Axis of Aggressors, Part II: Russia (featuring Cliff May)

Season 2 Episode 10

A new axis is rising — forged not in friendship but in shared hatred of the West. Putin and Khamenei have sealed a 20-year pact: Iranian drones rain over Ukraine, Russian diplomats shield Tehran’s nu…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Snapback to Reality: Using the Almighty Dollar to Force a Regime Reckoning

Season 2 Episode 9

One of America’s top sanctions experts, Miad Maleki, now a senior advisor at FDD, joins Mark Dubowitz to pull back the curtain on the Islamic Republic’s mafia state — a regime that controls every cor…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

From Gaza to Doha to Tehran: Nowhere to Hide

Season 2 Episode 8

U.S.–Israeli coordination during the 12-Day War critically damaged Iran’s nuclear program and flipped deterrence on its head. Now, Israeli strikes targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar have sent shockwave…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Iran and the Axis of Aggressors, Part I: China (featuring Craig Singleton and Grant Rumley)

Season 2 Episode 7

One is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. The other is the world’s most powerful dictatorship and greatest long-term threat facing the United States. What happens when they join forces?

Mark…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Nothing Short of Complete and Utter Dismantlement (featuring Jacob Nagel)

Season 2 Episode 6

Washington has wasted decades chasing pauses and half-measures. But as Mark Dubowitz and Brigadier General Jacob Nagel argue, the only answer to Iran’s nuclear blackmail is total dismantlement — no d…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

American Economic and Financial Power and the Iran File (featuring Juan Zarate)

Season 2 Episode 5

Missiles cripple armies, but sanctions topple regimes.

Juan Zarate, the strategist who pioneered U.S. financial warfare, joins Mark to break down how sanctions and isolation bled Iran’s economy and fo…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

American Military and Political Power and the Iran File (featuring Bradley Bowman)

Season 2 Episode 4

What did the 12-Day War reveal about the Islamic Republic — and about us?

Host Mark Dubowitz sits down with his FDD colleague Brad Bowman, Senior Director of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Po…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

American Intelligence and Information Power V. Iran (featuring Reuel Marc Gerecht)

Season 2 Episode 3

In Part II of their conversation, Mark Dubowitz and Reuel Marc Gerecht dive into what the 12-Day War exposed about the Islamic Republic and why Iran’s leaders, even after decades of hostility, were c…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago