Avi Jorisch is a Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism at the American Foreign Policy Council and Executive Director of the Economic Warfare Project, an initiative geared to stopping Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
Bahareh Hedayat is a human rights activist who has spent over six years in an Iranian prison for "insulting" Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and for "actions against national security, propagation of falsehoods, mutiny and illegal congregation." Hedayat is the longest serving female prisoner of conscience in Iran.