Getting Iran Right with Danny Citrinowicz
Weeks before the war broke out, Danny Citrinowicz was already warning that Israel's read on Iran was heading somewhere dangerous. In this episode of ROPESCAST, he walks through what he saw coming — an...
24 Jul 40min
Reading the Middle East: A Conversation with Elizabeth Tsurkov
Elizabeth Tsurkov has spent years doing what most researchers only read about — traveling into conflict zones, sitting with militia commanders, and listening to the people living inside the stories we...
9 Jul 1h 2min
Securing the Gulf: Iran, Regional Order, and the US Partnership
In this episode of ROPESCAST, Ksenia Svetlova sits down with Dr. Sanam Vakil, Director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, who offers an interesting perspective on the shifti...
15 Mai 45min
No Illusions: Bahrain, Iran, and the Future of Regional Cooperation
In a special 50th episode of ROPESCAST, Ksenia Svetlova sits down with Ahmed Khuzaie, a strategic analyst from Bahrain who doesn't pull any punches when it comes to the reality of Gulf security.We rec...
12 Mai 39min
Strategic Paradox: Why the Campaign Against Iran Left the Regime Intact
Our new ROPESCAST episode features a high-stakes dialogue between host Ksenia Svetlova and Elliott Abrams, a veteran U.S. diplomat and foundational figure in American foreign policy who served as Depu...
30 Apr 49min
Tehran 1979, Hormuz 2026: A Diplomat's Journey Through the Iranian Quagmire
What happens when the "ghosts" of history dictate the wars of the future? In this episode of ROPESCAST, Ksenia Svetlova sits down with a man who has lived through the heart of the Iranian fire: Ambass...
29 Mar 58min
Iranian Dissident Dreams of a Democratic Iran
In this deeply personal and high-stakes conversation, Iranian activist and former political dissident Dr. Daniel Dana joins the ROPESCAST to discuss what he believes is the imminent collapse of the Is...
25 Mar 33min
Settler Violence or State Policy? What Happens in the West Bank
In this urgent and deeply personal episode of the ROPESCAST, we sit down with Nivine Sandouka of ALLMEP and Aviv Tatarsky of Ir Amim and Engaged Dharma to confront the accelerating reality of settler ...
20 Mar 37min
