How powerful is Iran really? | Mapped Out

Iran is successfully projecting power across the Middle East, causing instability through its proxy militias such as Hezbollah and Hamas and disrupting trade routes. That’s despite a failing economy and dwindling domestic support for the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Tehran. What are the key strategies it has mastered? And how powerful is Iran really?


Chapters:

00:00 Iranian power: the essentials
03:10 Houthis, Hezbollah & Hamas: Iran’s proxies
06:28 Iranian drones: cheap but effective
09:23 Is Iran trying to build a nuclear bomb?
10:55 Turning towards Russia and China?
12:14 How the regime maintains its grip at home
13:38 How powerful is Iran really?


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