what the iranians most wished for they never gained and what they most sought to preserve they lost. that sentence written by james bucken, an oxford university trained persianist in his book about modern iran remains in my mind the single best one-sentence summary of the iranian revolution which today turns 40 that i have ever read and that i have ever heard. i serve as a research fellow focusing on iran at the foundation for defense of democracies in washington, d.c. today we are proud to welcome members of the u.s. government, diplomatic corps, think tank and policy community and media. thank you for joining us. as i mentioned just a moment ago, the revolution of iran turns 40 today, an event that the regime in tehran is sure to facilitate, an event that many iranians, inside iran or in the diaspora are likely lamenting, has it really been 40 years ex claimed my mother this past weekend who was born in iran two decades before the revolution but also on neb 11th, that s the
ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the 1918 crucible of war symposium here at the national world war i museum and memorial. we are so pleased to be joined this year by our presenting sponsor, the pritzker military museum and library as well as continuing our partnership with the united states world war i centennial commission and with the united states centennial commission we have been presenting educational materials since 2014 including a spectacular education newsletter which, if you are a teacher or a professor or you know a teacher, we would encourage you to go to our website, www.theworldwar.org to sign up where we provide topical materials on a bimonthly basis. with that, you can also find some really good, primary sources on things like ships and the navy. so if you have a great interest in that, again, we would just encourage you to take a look at some of those educational materials. market, a beautiful ship is on the front of our new, scholastic initiative and y
this is bloomberg surveillance. we are live on tv and radio. i am alongside tom keene. the focus is not on the building behind us this morning, but on number 10 downing street. tom: it is a movable story. we will go to that. it will be with us through surveillance, but a lot more going on in the economy, in inflation. let s not forget the jobs reports for america. looking forward to catching up with the economic council director. a bit of perspective there is a mechanism to deal with these things for the british public. they are staring down the barrel of another conservative prime minister. he is fighting the mechanism. i was stunned by what ben wallace said. it was the first thing i thought of. this is essentially the defense minister. how does boris johnson affect international policy, particularly the war in ukraine, where he is provided leadership? jonathan: with great leadership. he has been a tremendous ally to the ukrainians. i don t think that will change for t
i know we have a lot of world affairs council members here. jim faulk, very grateful to jim for this help. for his help. we have players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight. a truly great public servant who was the director of the nsc under bush, and i say public servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. and we respected people who hold these high positions. we look forward to hearing from him tonight. and i think now without even leaving the stage, i will get the first panel underway so that we can start this. as a college professor, i would say, get your notepads out. there will be questions, discussion. we are going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. tim sale from the university of toronto, who was here as a postdoc, he is going to chair the panel and lead the discussion about this. he worked on among other things nato. i think nato has been in the news quite a bit, so mak
of the best world affairs council in the united states. i know we have a lot of world affairs council members here. jim faulk, very grateful to jim for his help on this. we have players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight, a truly great public servant who was the director of the nsc under bush, and i say public servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered and we respected people who hold these high positions, so we look forward to hearing from him tonight. and i think now without even leaving the stage, i will get the first panel underway so that we can start this. if i was a college professor, i would say, get your notepads out, there will be questions. we will start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. tim sale from the university of toronto who was here at smu as a postdoc. he is going to chair panel and lead the discussion. he works on nato, which has been in the news quite a bit. meghan