CI Press, Episode 53: ODNI ATA 2025: Iran’s Many-Headed Threat — Proxies, Cyber & Academia

In this episode of CI Press, The Counterintelligence Podcast, Ryan Rambo and guests Brian Velasquez and Bryce Peterson analyze the 2025 ODNI Annual Threat Assessment on Iran. The episode covers Iran’s intelligence apparatus (MOIS, IRGC, Quds Force), proxy networks, cyber operations, and efforts to target U.S. infrastructure, academia, and the defense industrial base.

The hosts discuss historical context, risks to Iranian diaspora, and students, notable espionage cases and assassination plots, and emphasize the need for improved counterintelligence outreach, security integration, and protections for vulnerable communities and research programs.