Will Elon Musk's Starlink Transform Geopolitics? | Ilan Berman

Will Elon Musk's Starlink Transform Geopolitics? | Ilan Berman

American Foreign Policy Council's Ilan Berman gives us the 101 on the past, present, and possible future of the Iranian regime, Middle East geopolitics, and the potential for Starlink as a tool to topple authoritarian regimes.

· What do the Iranian dissidents want from the United States?

· Is the Iranian regime at a tipping point?

· The changing demographics in Iran

· How 1979 changed everything

· The CIA boogeyman

· Recapping U.S. – Iran historical relations

· "They've had a gun to Israel's head for a while."

· What's the Iranian regime thinking now?

· The cold-hearted rationality of Middle East politics

· Why Iran might fast-track development of a nuclear bomb

· Three scenarios for a post-ayatollah Iran

· Why the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps isn't going away

· How Elon Musk's Starlink could transform geopolitics

· China's race to dominate space-based digital connectivity

· Africa's population boom

Ilan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has consulted for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as well as the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and has also provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and congressional offices. Follow him on X at @ilanberman.

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