The story: Iran has slammed organizers of the Munich Security Conference for snubbing Iranian officials and instead inviting exiled dissidents to the annual gathering. The underlying criticism is that conference organizers burned an opportunity to help forge dialogue between Tehran and its western adversaries.

The conference saw prominent dissidents attend a panel on the recent protests in Iran. France’s president was also approached by at least one dissident on the sidelines of the event, though Emmanuel Macron hours later rejected the idea of regime change.

The coverage: Reza Pahlavi—the son of Iran’s last monarch—Iranian-American activist Masih Alinejad and British-Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi attended the Feb. 17-19 event.

• At a panel on Feb. 18, the three dissidents were joined by Member of the European Parliament Hannah Neumann and US Senator Robert Menendez to discuss the recent anti-establishment unrest in Iran and what lies ahead.
  
  
• On the first day of the conference, Alinejad posted a video of a brief encounter with Macron in which she thanked him for referring to the protests as...