The Tentacles of the Outlaws: Iran’s Reach into American Life

The Iran war reads differently from New York: it is priced into every barrel the markets trade, litigated a few blocks away at Turtle Bay, and echoed in a city politics where Islamism now campaigns openly. In this briefing, Gregg Roman follows the movement’s American franchise: the taxpayer-subsidized charities platforming Muslim Brotherhood networks, the convention stages where speakers urge the young to repel the Western “wolves” and seize political power, and the platforms that pierce Tehran’s blackouts abroad while quieting dissidents to keep Gulf market access. He will make the Middle East Forum’s case for the answer, the Four D’s: defund the networks, designate them, debar them from public institutions, and force their foreign patrons into the sunlight. And he will connect it to the war behind it all, because the same regime leasing back the Strait of Hormuz is the patron of the politics moving through American institutions. What the midterms settle, the Congress of 2027 inherits; this lunch briefing is the map of what it will inherit.

📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
📍New York City, NY (Exact location will be provided upon registration.)
🕕 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm