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CIC Victoria: Operation Rising Lion…the Israel-Iran conflict (Zoom event)

June 24, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

When: Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Where: Zoom
Time: 3 – 4:00 pm PT
Our Speaker: Abbas Qaidari
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As events continue to unfold, join us for a strategic assessment of the Israel-Iran conflict, ignited by Israel’s Operation Rising Lion (13 June 2025), a preemptive strike targeting Iran’s nuclear and command infrastructure. This presentation will examine the operational and geostrategic dimensions of this critical ‘threshold war.’ The key focus areas will be:

– Preemptive Operations: Israel’s integrated intelligence and special operations, achieving surprise through covert strikes on the Natanz and Parchin facilities.

– Iran’s Counterstrike: Operation True Promise III, employing ballistic missiles and drones, constrained by weakened proxy forces such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

– Nuclear Escalation Risks: Potential consequences of disrupting Iran’s nuclear program, possibly accelerating Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear weaponization.

– Global Strategic Impacts: U.S. military reinforcements, strategic leverage of the Strait of Hormuz, and responses from Russia and China.

– Escalation Dynamics: The absence of mutual deterrence and heightened risks of regional conflict without diplomatic de-escalation.

Our speaker…

Abbas Qaidari specializes in Persian Gulf security and Iranian military strategy, bringing over a decade of influential research. He now resides in Canada and previously served as a Senior Fellow at Tehran’s Center for Strategic Studies (2015–2017). His independent analyses—widely cited by institutions such as the U.S. Congress, the U.S. military, the United Nations, and other international bodies—have appeared in prominent outlets including the Atlantic Council and Al-Monitor. Abbas leverages advanced open-source intelligence, conflict simulation, and strategic modeling to provide deep insights into Iran’s deterrence strategies and proxy operations, and he regularly presents at forums and think tanks across the UK, EU, and U.S. He holds a Master of Arts degree from the School of Law and Politics (Allameh Tabatabai University – Tehran) and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Political Science (Islamic Azad University – Tehran).

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Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Trevor Bell.

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