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Breaking Down the US-Iran MOU (feat. Robert Greenway)
Jun 19, 2026
58m 04s
What Does Winning In Iran Look Like? (feat. Marc Thiessen)
Jun 9, 2026
50m 16s
Strait Victory: Bypassing Iran's Hormuz Chokepoint (feat. Richard Goldberg)
Jun 3, 2026
1h 01m 52s
Stolen Revolution: Behind Iran's Protest Movements (feat. Bozorgmehr Sharafedin)
Jun 3, 2026
57m 30s
The Iran Deal - What Trump Got, What Iran Got, and What Comes Next (feat. Richard Goldberg)
May 26, 2026
1h 00m 09s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() Breaking Down the US-Iran MOU (feat. Robert Greenway) | President Trump has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran, opening a 60-day window to negotiate a final deal. The debate is fierce: does the US-Iran MOU go far enough? Iran's nuclear program, ballistic missiles, regional proxies, and frozen assets all remain unresolved — leaving critical questions about what any final agreement may actually deliver.Robert Greenway — military veteran, diplomat, and a key architect of the Abraham Accords — joins Mark Dubowitz on The Iran Breakdown to cut through the noise. They examine the MOU's terms, the long arc of Trump's maximum pressure campaign, and what happens if Tehran doesn't comply. | 58m 04s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() What Does Winning In Iran Look Like? (feat. Marc Thiessen)✨ | U.S. foreign policyIran+4 | Marc Thiessen | American Enterprise InstituteWashington Post | IranIslamic Republic+1 | IranU.S. pressure campaign+6 | — | 50m 16s | |
| 6/3/26 | ![]() Strait Victory: Bypassing Iran's Hormuz Chokepoint (feat. Richard Goldberg)✨ | military strategyenergy security+4 | Richard Goldberg | FDDNational Security Council+2 | IranStrait of Hormuz | Strait of HormuzIran+5 | — | 1h 01m 52s | |
| 6/3/26 | ![]() Stolen Revolution: Behind Iran's Protest Movements (feat. Bozorgmehr Sharafedin)✨ | Iranian protestsrevolution+3 | Bozorgmehr Sharafedin | Iran InternationalIslamic Republic | — | Iranprotests+6 | — | 57m 30s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() The Iran Deal - What Trump Got, What Iran Got, and What Comes Next (feat. Richard Goldberg)✨ | Iran DealNuclear Program+3 | Richard Goldberg | FDD | Strait of HormuzUnited States+1 | Iran Dealnuclear program+3 | — | 1h 00m 09s | |
| 5/14/26 | ![]() The Iran Ceasefire Didn't End the Battle for Hormuz (feat. Aaron MacLean)✨ | U.S.-Iran relationsceasefire+3 | Aaron MacLean | CBS NewsFDD+3 | Hormuz | Iranceasefire+5 | — | 1h 06m 16s | |
| 5/4/26 | ![]() Winning the Iran War — Whether Washington Knows It or Not✨ | Iran WarU.S. foreign policy+5 | — | FDD | TehranAmerica | IranMark Dubowitz+5 | — | 19m 59s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() The Door Tehran Kicked Open: MBS, The Bomb, and The Battle for The Gulf (feat. Bernard Haykel)✨ | Saudi ArabiaIran+5 | Bernard Haykel | PrincetonSaudi Arabia+1 | TehranWashington+1 | MBSIran+7 | — | 1h 00m 48s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() No March on Tehran: The Military Logic of the Iran War (feat. John Spencer)✨ | military strategyurban warfare+3 | John Spencer | Iran | TehranHormuz | Iran Warurban warfare+4 | — | 52m 36s | |
| 4/16/26 | ![]() Operation Economic Fury (feat. Miad Maleki and Rich Goldberg)✨ | economic warfareIran+3 | Miad MalekiRich Goldberg | — | Iran | Iraneconomic warfare+3 | — | 59m 26s | |
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| 4/9/26 | ![]() Regime Revisionism: Tehran's War Before the Iran War (feat. Jay Solomon & Negar Mojtahedi)✨ | Iranian regimepropaganda+4 | Jay SolomonNegar Mojtahedi | CIAMossad | Iran | Iranprotests+6 | — | 55m 03s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() Iran's Global Game of Drones (& How To Stockpile While Sanctioned) (feat. Kerri Bitsoff)✨ | sanctionsdrone programs+5 | Kerri Bitsoff | U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control | IranRussia+3 | Irandrones+7 | — | 31m 42s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() War of the Words in Iran (feat. Ali Ansari)✨ | narrative battleIranian regime+3 | Ali Ansari | — | IranWest | Irannarrative+5 | — | 46m 03s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() From Tehran to Taipei: How the Iran War Reshapes China’s Taiwan Calculus (feat. Matt Pottinger)✨ | Iran warChina-Taiwan relations+3 | Matt Pottinger | FDD | TehranTaipei+3 | Iran warChina+6 | — | 44m 23s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() Breaking Down The Islamic Republic (Cliff May feat. Mark Dubowitz)✨ | Islamic RepublicU.S. foreign policy+4 | Mark Dubowitz | FDDIslamic Republic | — | Islamic RepublicMark Dubowitz+6 | — | 1h 04m 48s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() Cracking The Regime (feat. Ray Takeyh and Reuel Marc Gerecht)✨ | Iran regimepolitical collapse+3 | Ray TakeyhReuel Marc Gerecht | FDD | — | Iranregime collapse+3 | — | 49m 47s | |
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Trump’s Iran Gamble: Operation Epic Fury and Death to the Dictator (feat. Eli Lake)✨ | Iran conflictU.S. foreign policy+4 | Eli Lake | The Free PressHezbollah | IranIsrael+4 | IranIsrael+7 | — | 43m 03s | |
| 3/1/26 | ![]() FDD SITREP: The Islamic Republic Is Falling✨ | Iranmilitary operations+4 | Jonathan SchanzerRich Goldberg | United StatesIsrael+2 | IranTel Aviv+3 | KhameneiIran+8 | — | 29m 50s | |
| 2/28/26 | ![]() The Iran Breakdown SITREP: U.S. Israeli Strikes Against the Islamic Republic | The U.S. and Israel have conducted joint military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dubbed "Operation Epic Fury" by Washington and "Lion's Roar" by Jerusalem, the strikes were launched on February 28 after nuclear negotiations with the regime failed to yield progress. President Trump stated that U.S. objectives are to "defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime." Key targets included the office compound of Supreme Leader Khamenei, the Ministries of Intelligence and Defense, and the Parchin military complex, with additional strikes on regime targets in Isfahan, Tabriz, and Bandar Abbas.Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu framed the operation's objectives as removing the "existential threat" posed by the Islamic Republic and creating conditions for the Iranian people to achieve regime change—calling on Persians, Kurds, Azeris, Baloch, and Ahwazi alike to "cast off the yoke of tyranny."Iran has retaliated with ballistic missile strikes targeting U.S. bases and allies across the region, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Israel, and Bahrain—where a missile struck a facility affiliated with the U.S. Navy 5th Fleet.Today, Iran is entering a decisive phase—where economic collapse, mass unrest, and direct military pressure are converging faster than at any point since 1979. As long as theocratic extremists rule in Iran, the Middle East will remain a factory for terror, missiles, and nuclear blackmail. These strikes have sharpened urgent questions about what comes next—for the regime, the Iranian people, and regional stability.To assess fast-moving developments and their strategic implications, FDD will host a timely SITREP moderated by FDD CEO and host of The Iran Breakdown Mark Dubowitz, featuring FDD Executive Director and host of the FDD Morning Brief Jonathan Schanzer and FDD Senior Fellow and former IDF international spokesperson Jonathan Conricus. | 35m 02s | ||||||
| 2/20/26 | ![]() The Islamic Republic's Weaponization of Global Terror (feat. Edmund Fitton-Brown) | How does Iran fit into the global ecosystem of terrorism — and why does the West struggle to see the full picture?For decades, policymakers treated ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Iran’s proxy network as separate threats. But that's not reality. This is: They operate in the same battle space and exploit the same weaknesses in Western strategy.To examine what the West missed — and what it may still be getting wrong — host Mark Dubowitz is joined by FDD senior fellow Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown. From Yemen to the United Nations, Edmund has first-hand experience tracking how states and terrorist groups adapt, cooperate, and project power. | 1h 04m 58s | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | ![]() A Reagan-Approved Blueprint for Iran (feat. Charlie Laderman, Nazee Moinian) | 📺: Watch this episode on YouTube here. Ronald Reagan didn’t defeat the Soviet empire with tanks — he defeated it with pressure, principle, and moral clarity. Can the same strategy work in Iran? A recent FDD Memo, “Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s,” says that it can. Mark is joined by the Memo’s authors, Charlie Laderman and Nazee Moinian, to break down how the playbook can be applied to the Islamic Republic — a regime that fears its own citizens most — including why regime change doesn’t require invasion, how internal pressure is Tehran’s greatest weakness, and why negotiating without leverage only empowers dictators. History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes — and Iran may be next. | 57m 23s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | ![]() 48 Hours in Iran (feat. Behnam Ben Taleblu) | One of the gravest human rights crises in recent history is happening right now in Iran. The Islamic Republic has carried out mass killings on a scale not seen in modern Iranian history, slaughtering an estimated 33,000, arresting tens of thousands, and subjecting countless Iranians to torture, disappearance, and sham trials. Internet blackouts have plunged entire cities into darkness in an effort to conceal the carnage. This is a regime ruling through terror because it has lost legitimacy and control. Behnam Ben Taleblu joins Mark to break down the scale of the atrocities, why this moment is historically unprecedented, and why Iran’s human rights crisis is inseparable from the regime’s broader threat to regional and global security. | 47m 17s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 | ![]() In the Eye of the Storm (feat. Rich Goldberg) | The regime in Iran has slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranians and plunged the country into an internet blackout — and dared the world to look away. Still, President Trump warned that American support was coming as U.S. military vessels made their way to the region. And yet — the decisive moment hasn’t arrived.In this episode of The Iran Breakdown, host Mark Dubowitz is joined again by Rich Goldberg for a timely assessment of the waiting game: what military options are now on the table, why missiles — not nukes — may be the real center of gravity, whether negotiations are strategy or psychological warfare, and how delay reshapes deterrence, escalation, and the fate of the Iranian people. This isn’t a pause — it’s a countdown. | 56m 47s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() Iran Protests, Day 18 | A Decisive Moment for Iran | While the United States is on the brink of military action in Iran, Iran itself may be on the brink of something far bigger.U.S. forces are repositioning. Allies are on alert. And in Tehran, a crippled regime already at war with its own people is threatening retaliation against the United States.In this urgent episode of The Iran Breakdown, Mark is joined again by Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh to break down what a U.S. strike would actually mean — militarily, strategically, and for the Iranian people themselves — and why American credibility is once again on the line. From Iran’s likely response to the durability of its repression, the conversation confronts the million-dollar question: Is this the moment the regime doubles down — or the moment Iranians begin to take their country back?Read nextRay and Reuel's Wall Street Journal piece from January 12: Don’t Repeat Obama’s Mistake in IranRay and Reuel's Wall Street Journal piece from January 8: Can Iran Hold the Line Against Its Protesters?Watch nextIf you're new to The Iran Breakdown, welcome. Mark's interview with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi should be your next watch.Iran protest resourcesWe're tracking the Iran protests at fdd.org/iranprotests.Follow FDD's Iran experts on X, like Mark, Behnam, Saeed, and Janatan | 31m 17s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | ![]() Iran Protests: Day 16 | Mark's Generation Jihad interview | Iran Breakdown-ers, we're pleased to introduce you to Generation Jihad, a podcast from FDD's Long War Journal hosted by Bill Roggio.It's January 12, 2026, day 16 of the Iran protests. Bill hosts Mark on Generation Jihad to discuss whether this is the moment.Iran protest resourcesWe're tracking the Iran protests at fdd.org/iranprotests. If you're new to The Iran Breakdown, welcome. Mark's interview with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi should be your next watch. Follow FDD's Iran experts on X, like Mark, Behnam, Saeed, and Janatan...The following content is cross-postedMark Dubowitz: The regime clings to its ninth lifeAfter military defeat abroad and at home where the economy also has collapsed, the Islamic Republic is weaker than ever, and the Iranian people know it.The regime is facing a nationwide uprising unlike anything seen in decades with Iranians across class, age, and ideology back in the streets, and they’re no longer asking for reform. They’re demanding an end to the Islamic Republic itself. Meanwhile, President Trump warned that U.S. military action is on the table if the regime slaughters protesters. As we record, a brutal crackdown is underway with reports of hundreds of Iranians killed and tens of thousands arrested. Is this the moment?Bill asks FDD CEO and host Mark Dubowitz. | 38m 11s | ||||||
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