dan rabkin is a middle eastern affairs and national security analyst he is based in toronto ontario canada and was awarded canadas governor generals medal in 2005his viewpoints can be classified as conservative a constant theme in rabkins work is advocating for regime change in iran by empowering the iranian people and their opposition groupsthe american conservative magazine frontpage magazine lists rabkin as a columnist he is also the iraneditor and a middle east analyst with the world security foundation and a counterterrorism and middle east analyst at the international analyst networkin addition to frontpage magazine rabkins work has been featured in irvaj iranvajahan townhallcom the spectator center for security policy the national post the toronto star the global politician journal of politics and foreign affairs investors business daily realclearpolitics the david horowitz freedom center open lebanon and eu politicson may 4 2008 rabkin was featured on iran national tv where he debated for regime change in iran he was also featured on al arabiya arabiclanguage television news channel during his summer 2008 trip to iraq in iraq rabkin met and consulted with iraqi government and security figures leaders of the awakening movements in iraq and the leadership of the iraqibased iranian militant group the mojahedinekhalqon march 17 2009 rabkin was the featured guest on politics and religion an internationally broadcast radio show based in texas during the onehour interview rabkin predicted that israel will most likely strike iranian nuclear facilities sometime in the next few years barring regime change in the islamic republic of iranon june 30 2009 terry glavin wrote an oped in the national post in which he quotes rabkin as saying that the iranian regime is obsessed with the national council of resistance of iran the political arm of the mojahedinekhalq a designated terrorist organization in the united states rabkin goes on to say that there is real dedication with these ncri people real discipline they produce real results and they have real intelligence resources in iran rabkin was one of the only middle east analysts to have visited the mojahedinekhalq mek peoples mujahedin of iran pmoi military camp in iraq camp ashraf