Iran and Cuba - Death Rattles and Birth Pangs

Ambassador Alberto Fernandez led this webinar on Iran and Cuba on February 9, 2026.

Alberto M. Fernandez is Vice President of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a position he held from 2015 to 2017. He is also News Editor for the Middle East and North Africa at EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network), a global Catholic news organization. He previously served as President of Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), the US government-funded Arabic-language broadcast, online and radio news organization, from 2017 to 2020.  Prior to joining MEMRI, Ambassador Fernandez was a career U.S. Foreign Service Officer from 1983 to 2015 and served as the State Department’s Coordinator for the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications from 2012 to 2015. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea and U.S. Charge d’Affaires to Sudan. He also held senior public diplomacy positions at U.S. embassies in Afghanistan, Jordan, Syria, Guatemala, Kuwait, and in the Department’s Near East Affairs (NEA) Bureau.