In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Masih Alinejad discuss the protests in Iran, their implications, and Alinejad’s vision for the future of her country. H.R. McMaster in conversation with Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and activist, on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 9:00am PT. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Masih Alinejad is an Iranian-American journalist, TV presenter, women's rights activist and author of best-selling memoir, The Wind in My Hair. Today she is one of the most prominent and vocal opposition figures challenging the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2014, she launched a campaign against compulsory hijab in Iran, called My Stealthy Freedom campaign which became the biggest civil disobedience movement in the history of the Islamic Republic. Her campaigning against the gender apartheid regime in Iran resulted in several threats. Born and raised in northern Iran, Masih started her professional career as a parliamentary journalist in Tehran. Today she has more than 11 million followers on her social media accounts and receives thousands of messages daily from inside Iran. H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018. ABOUT THE SERIES Battlegrounds provides a needed forum with leaders from key countries to share their assessment of problem sets and opportunities that have implications for U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. Each episode features H.R. McMaster in a one-on-one conversation with a senior foreign government leader to allow Americans and partners abroad to understand how the past produced the present and how we might work together to secure a peaceful and prosperous future. “Listening and learning from those who have deep knowledge of our most crucial challenges is the first step in crafting the policies we need to secure peace and prosperity for future generations.” For more information, visit: https://www.hoover.org/battlegrounds_perspectives. Pick up a copy of "Battlegrounds: The Fight To Defend The Free World," by H.R. McMaster here - https://www.hoover.org/research/battlegrounds-fight-defend-free-world.