On Friday, February 27, at 1:00 p.m. ET, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative and Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative will host a “Reporters at Risk” event on journalists’ efforts to report on the recent Iranian protests.

It would be impossible to cover the 2025-2026 protests and the Iranian government’s repressive response, which led to at least five thousand deaths, without the information distributed within and outside Iran by correspondents facing a government-initiated internet shutdown.

This event in our “Reporters at Risk” series will feature experts and journalists who covered the Iranian protests discussing how correspondents have remained resilient while facing physical, psychological, and political threats and technological challenges and why it matters for US foreign policy.

New policy: In-person attendees will be required to show photo ID upon arrival, and no on-site registration will be permitted. Guests will not be admitted later than twenty minutes after the event’s start time. Registration for this event will close at 5:00 p.m. ET the day prior. 

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