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Iranian dissidents: Iranians and Israelis are fighting for their lives

“Our Middle East: An Insider’s View,” Ep. 32

Vahid Beheshti, an independent journalist and Iranian human-rights activist based in London, became famous after completing a 72-day hunger strike followed by a sit-in last year. In summer 2023, he joined the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs initiative in the British House of Lords, to outlaw the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Host Dan Diker met Beheshti and his wife, Mattie, in Jerusalem to discuss their opposition activism against the Iranian regime and the war in Israel from an Iranian perspective on this episode of this episode of “Our Middle East” podcast.

Dan Diker is president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs and the longtime director of its Counter-Political Warfare Project.
Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning Arab and Palestinian Affairs journalist formerly with The Jerusalem Post. He is a senior distinguished fellow at the Gatestone Institute and a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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