Iran and American Foreign Policy

How might US foreign policy toward Iran change in 2025?

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Required Reading:  Iran tries to join Brics a new Economic Alliance which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Iran threatens US interests on several fronts. 

Iran competes with Saudi Arabia, an important US ally, for dominance in the Middle East.  Iran supports a network of anti-West terror groups, including Hezbollah and Hamas.  Iran maintains close ties with America’s biggest threats in the Western Hemisphere, helping socialist Venezuela refine its oil and offering key geopolitical support to Cuba and Nicaragua. In Asia, Iran is leveraging its newly minted membership in BRICS to strengthen ties to China and turn it into a more vocal antagonist to Israel, another key US ally in the Middle East.

Iran has come into focus recently as its confrontations with Israel over the Israel-Hamas War have flared.  These tensions threaten to draw the US into direct conflict with Iran.  It’s therefore critical that US foreign policy toward Iran minimize the risk of such conflict.

Frances Martel, International Editor at Breitbart News, will share her assessment of Iran — its current influence in the Middle East, its role in the Israel-Hamas conflict, the foreign policy toward Iran we can expect from a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris administration, and what impact their differing approaches could have on the region in the foreseeable future.  

Speaker Bio:

It was while working for Mediaite that Martel had her first interaction with Andrew Breitbart. “It was hard to keep up with Andrew’s brain — he was rapid fire. He hated elitism, hated the idea of an ivory tower of rich, white liberals telling the rest of us what to believe,” she says. “I clicked with that.”

It clicked for her so much that in 2013, she joined Breitbart News Network as free-lancer and quickly rose through the ranks, becoming its International Editor. Her expertise includes Latin America, China, Africa and the Middle East, and religious persecution globally.

Martel’s writing has been cited across the political spectrum, from Rush Limbaugh to Lawrence O’Donnell.  She holds a BA in Government studies from Harvard University, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law.