Good evening, everyone and welcome. Were delighted to join this evening guillaume serina, journalistre and historian and paul carroll, director of Nuclear Security partnerships. Guillaume serina is a graduate who specialize in history and experienced journalist was written for many articles. He has published five books in french. Including the first french language biography of barack obama. His new book, United States is for sale to commit. My name is julia and then a Senior Program officer at World Affairs. If you enjoy to match discussion and interest and more about the organization please come introduce yourself after the program. We are recording tonight conversation so please take a moment to silence her your cell phone. Additionally, please note after the conclusion of the recorded program the microphones will be shut off and you have the opportunity to ask additional questions to our speaker stereo. I would now turn over tour moderator paul carroll. Welcome. Thank you, julia, g
Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
Senate return for legislative business next tuesday and now we continue our coverage of a conference on middle east strategy. And i think this counter goes of whoever is in par with regard to the presidency and regardless of who the resources available. So i think going back to what was mentioned in the Previous Panel with regard to the impact of maximum pressure and what max impression was intended to decide allegedly because of lack of clarity among u. S. Policy intention and strategy on iran but one of the argument was the position of sanction and maximum pressure, iran behave in a region would be contained. Unrest with diminished. We clery see the opposite. One of the reasons is iran continued its policy with regard to its support of allies and proxies but also its continuation of the interest. In syria with continuation, and iraq and lebanon the same, in yemen we have not seen any change since 2018 in particular. If anything weve seen a more by iran to showcase as was mentioned be
Talks about efforts to counter irans Illicit Financial Networks. The Atlantic Council hosted this our 20 minute forum. [indistinct chatter] william hello, everyone, and welcome to the Atlantic Council. Welcome to everyone here and those watching on cspan and our livestream. My name is william wechsler, and i lead Atlantic Councils work on the middle east. Im delighted to welcome you to an event cohosted for strategy and security and our Global Business and economics programs initiative. This event is on the record, and please tweet if you are so inclined, and if so, use the hashtag shapingsanctions. Today, we are here to learn more about hezbollah and its finances. Hezbollah is one of the most sophisticated terrorist organizations and stabilizing factor in the middle east. Organizations in the world, and a key destabilizing factor in the middle east. Iran reportedly provides the terrorist group with hundreds of millions of dollars annually. This money has advanced the iranian agenda, u
Thank you also to the folks from cspan who are watching and the folks that are streaming this live over the Atlantic Councils website. My name is william wechsler. I read the Atlantic Councils work in the middle east. Im the director for the center that is your host this afternoon. This question was a question that would not really have been asked only a decade ago. China does not have deep historical ties in the region. China has its economic connections were modest not that long ago. But now its a question that many people in the region are asking more and more. Many people in the u. S. Economic, diplomatic, intelligence and military apparatus are asking more and more. Many people in china are asking more and more about how they approach this region as part of their wider belt and Road Initiative, as part of their wider diplomatic initiatives, as part of their need for Energy Resources. What we see right now is the economic relationship between china and the middle east is deep and d