Iran conflict update—security, law and global implications
The Israel-Iran conflict has escalated in recent days, with the United States and Israel conducting strikes in Iran. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed and fighting has expanded across the region.
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Infrastructure impacts, Iranian-American
, professor of geotechnical engineering and geomechanics, can discuss infrastructure impacts related to war.Â
- Infrastructure risk in conflict zones, including damage cascades and recovery
- Mismanagement by the Islamic Republic on Iran’s physical infrastructure and environmental systems
- Personal experiences associated with the recent strikes and the current war
Markets, volatility and investor response
, Quinby Family Endowed Faculty Fellow, associate professor of finance and faculty director of the Burridge Center for Finance, can provide analysis of market reactions, risk pricing and volatility.
- How geopolitical shocks affect financial markets
- Investor behavior during periods of heightened uncertainty
- Short-term volatility versus long-term impact
National security and defense implications
, director, Center for National Security Initiatives, is a professor of aerospace engineering sciences and can speak on air and missile defense, hypersonic missiles and directed-energy (laser) defense systems.
- U.S. national security considerations in a widening regional conflict
- Military capabilities, escalation dynamics and strategic risk
- Intersections between technology/aerospace and national security
Resistance through architecture and planning, Iranian-American
, environmental design professor, studies design and planning in political contexts, including how professional communities inside and outside Iran engage with state power, identity and social change.
- How architects and planners navigate state pressure and political constraints
- Identity and resistance in contemporary Iran
- Reflections on the politics of the Iranian diaspora and how global Iranian communities respond to conflict.
Women’s rights and social movements in Iran
 is an assistant professor of women and gender studies and an Iranian American who has been conducting research on social movements in Iran for the past decade with an emphasis on feminist and environmental movements around human and political rights.
- Women’s rights and feminist resistance in Iran
- Social movements in Iran
- U.S. foreign policy toward Iran
National security law and international law
, associate professor of law, teaches and writes on national security law, public international law and foreign relations law.Â
- National security law and executive authority
- Public international law and the law of foreign relations
- Legal frameworks around the use of force and state responsibility
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