CCU for Israel: Iran’s 2025 Playbook – Unraveling the Next Wave of Threats to U.S. Security
March 5 from 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Over the last year, international security concerns have risen, particularly in the Middle East. What threat does Iran pose in 2025 as it seeks to expand its proxy network? As the Gaza ceasefire agreement is finalized, what comes next for the region? What must the U.S. and its allies do to counter this growing danger?
Join the Centennial Institute and the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (CELL) for a conversation with Dr. Matthew Levitt, one of the nation’s foremost experts in counterterrorism, Middle Eastern affairs, and intelligence, as he shares an inside look at what to expect for national security amidst these rising tensions.
CCU for Israel: Iran’s 2025 Playbook – Unraveling the Next Wave of Threats to U.S. Security
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm MT
Armstrong Center Parlor
Colorado Christian University
8787 W. Alameda Ave.
Lakewood, CO 80226
This project was supported by grant #24PIBV24CELL, issued by the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. The discounted $5.00 per-participant charge for this program has been graciously underwritten by the CELL’s underwriters.
About Dr. Matthew Levitt:
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of its Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. From 2005 to early 2007, he served as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he served both as a senior official within the department’s terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, one of sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies coordinated under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. During his tenure at Treasury, Dr. Levitt played a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists, weapons proliferators, and other rogue actors the ability to finance threats to U.S. national security. In 2008-2009, he served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security (SEMERS), General James L. Jones.
Dr. Levitt has written extensively on terrorism, countering violent extremism, illicit finance and sanctions, the Middle East, and Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, with articles appearing in peer-reviewed journals, policy magazines, and the press, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and numerous other publications. He is also a frequent guest on the national and international media, and the author of several books and monographs, including Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad (Yale University Press, 2006), Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), and Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God (Georgetown University Press, 2013). He is the host of the podcast series, Breaking Hezbollah’s Golden Rule, and he created and maintains interactive maps of Hezbollah’s international activities and of Iran’s external operations.
Dr. Levitt holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yeshiva University, as well as a master’s degree in law and diplomacy and a doctorate from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He was a graduate research fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and has taught at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and Hopkins’ Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Levitt is the 2021-22 Andrew H. Siegel Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization.
