Finish the Job: What Victory over Iran Requires

Five months into the war, Iran holds the strait, threatens to black out the Gulf, and is betting that America’s ammunition stores empty before its will does. In this briefing, Gregg Roman goes inside the arithmetic that now governs the conflict: the interceptors and Tomahawks already spent, the production lines racing to catch up, and why a defense that wins every engagement while Tehran keeps its launchers is a subscription, not a strategy. He will lay out the case the Middle East Forum has pressed all year, hunt the archer rather than the arrows, and assess a White House that has hit the regime harder than any before it and now must choose between finishing the war and freezing it. Then the horizon: the Saudi kingdom’s hedge between Washington and its new partners, the proxies converting every pause into position, and the Congress seated in January 2027 that will decide whether the pressure on Tehran survives. The war will not wait for the election; the election will decide the war.

📅 Thursday, September 3, 2026
📍Philadelphia, PA (Exact location will be provided upon registration.)
🕕 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm