Today’s guest is Carl Schiøtz Wibye, a diplomat who has served in key Muslim countries such as Egypt and Iran, and who later became Norway’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. During his posting there, he travelled extensively across the Kingdom by motorbike—an experience that inspired one of his four books, The Kingdom of Terror. At this particularly tense moment, we hear his reflections on the wider Middle East, as Iran is experiencing the largest popular uprisings since the founding of the Islamic Republic, with reports of thousands killed, and possible implications for the region, and for the West.