This week on the show we turn our eyes to Iran and the year long protests by young Iranians against the Islamic regime.
September 16 marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman killed in police custody. Since her death Iran has been rocked by a year of protests in which over 500 people, many of them women, have been killed. We look at how Iran has changed, where the protest movement is now and how the regime is cracking down on it.
The panel also discuss more broadly Iran’s role in the Middle East, and Tehran's difficult relations with Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United States, as well as the growing role of China in the region.
Joining Bronwen Maddox in the studio this week are former BBC journalist Rana Rahimpour, Dr Sanam Vakil the Director of our Middle East and North Africa programme and journalist Michael Goldfarb.