Soga and Marshall here welcome back to the Realignment.

One of the best parts about working at the Hudson Institute is there's this vast wealth

of knowledge about global affairs and how different geopolitical situations are playing

out across the world.

So this week we're continuing the Realignment's coverage of the coronavirus outbreak.

We've got Hudson's and your fellows Michael Durran covering the Middle East, Peter

Rao covering Europe and John Lee focused on the Asia Pacific region.

So we're going to continue on with that and seeing how the coronavirus is continuing

and accelerating previous trends the world was experiencing.

And then just a quick note if it sounds like all of us were in different rooms and possibly

different continents that's 100% correct.

We are continuing our remote recording of this episode.

We hope you guys enjoy it and we're going to keep at it.

And with that let's dive in.

Mike Durran welcome to the Realignment.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah of course Mike so let's talk a little bit about coronavirus in Iran.

Iran has been probably one of the most stricken countries by the by the virus and also one

of the most opaque in terms of its reporting.

You've been out there highlighting what's been happening to the regime which has just been

way laid by this.

What are some of the developments out of that country geopolitically as a result of this

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