In the Media

In a conversation with Fox News, Benjamin Radd, an affiliate of the MIT Security Studies’ Wargaming Lab, discusses how the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran relates to the regime’s warning of ‘harsher conditions.’ “We have not seen or heard from the supreme leader. He is talking through handwritten messages given to intermediaries—any of whom can interpret what he’s saying in ways that suits them,” says Radd. “There is no unified voice coming out of the regime right now, which makes trying to pinpoint these words and understand their motives problematic.”