What's Next for Iran?

With the cease-fire extended and the negotiations ongoing, the shape of the postwar Iranian regime is already beginning to emerge. The Islamic Republic seems to be emerging from the conflict simultaneously weakened and emboldened. How is its new leadership plotting its own future? Can Iran absorb more strikes amid a blockade of its ports? Karim Sadjadpour, a leading expert on Iran, joined FP Live to assess the regime’s staying power and what a postwar Islamic Republic means for the wider region. Watch the interview at ForeignPolicy.com: https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/22/... 0:00 Intro 1:39 Status of the ceasefire 2:46 Who will blink first? 6:00 Iran’s nuclear ambitions 11:55 Tehran’s new leaders 19:19 U.S. objectives 23:42 Israel’s role 26:54 Regional impacts 32:33 Strait of Hormuz 37:45 China’s leverage 39:30 The blockade 42:00 What’s next On the go? Listen to FP Live as a podcast at https://link.chtbl.com/foreignpolicyl... or wherever you get your podcasts. FP Live is Foreign Policy's forum for live journalism that brings leading foreign-policy experts and thinkers together to analyze the world's biggest events. Visit http://foreignpolicy.com/live for the full conversation and more live journalism from Foreign Policy. Subscribe to Foreign Policy's Youtube Channel:    / @foreign-policy   Visit http://foreignpolicy.com/ to read the latest global news and analysis from FP. Follow Foreign Policy: X -   / foreignpolicy   Instagram -   / foreignpolicymag   Facebook -   / foreign.policy.magazine   LinkedIn -   / foreign-policy-magazine   TikTok -   / foreignpolicymagazine