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Iran’s Post-Cold War Foreign Policy

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 12:15pm
On June 22, the New America Foundation hosted an event in which Shireen Hunter outlined a few major trends in post-Cold War Iranian foreign policy discussed in her new book, Iran's Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era: Resisting the New International Order. She argued that the collapse of the Soviet Union generated systemic change worldwide, but affected Iran the most and adversely because its geographic positioning and power potential made its neighbors – Arabs and Turks with whom it has historically antagonistic relations – and world powers alike uneasy. Ms.
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Realigning America’s Relations in the Middle East

Monday, June 14, 2010 - 12:15am

On Monday, June 14th, New America Foundation hosted an event featuring Stephen Kinzer on Realigning America’s Relations in the Middle East. Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran Project of New America Foundation and publisher of The Race for Iran, moderated the event.

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Talking About Tehran

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 12:15pm

On March 16, 2010, New America welcomed James K. Glassman, to discuss how strategic communications could play a key role in U.S. diplomacy with Iran. James Glassman began his presentation by emphasizing the need to achieve concrete national security goals when practicing diplomacy. Today, Glassman asserted, Iran and its nuclear ambitions are a severe threat to American security. An overthrow of the Iranian leadership, Glassman argued, is necessary if the U.S. desires Iran to remain non-nuclear.

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What Does the Iranian Public Really Think?

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 12:15pm

On February 3, 2010, New America welcomed a group of panelists to discuss the Iranian public opinion on its current leaders and government.

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Iran: What Matters Now?

Friday, June 26, 2009 - 1:30pm

On June 26, Sir Richard Dalton, the former UK ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran and an associate fellow with the Middle East & North Africa Program at the Chatham House, joined Steve Clemons at the New America Foundation to shed light on current events in Iran and what the long term effects of the Iranian election will be.

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Iran's Election

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 4:30pm

On June 22, 2009 Ken Ballen, Steve Clemons, Flynt Leverett, Afshin Molavi, and Nader Mousavizadeh came together with Nicholas Schmidle at the New America Foundation to share their varied views on the current events in Iran, and how they will impact future U.S. policy toward Iran. This discussion among some of the world’s most prominent experts on the region ranged from how to interpret the riots in the streets of Tehran to the forceful debates that continue in the media, and even touched upon the information wars on Twitter.

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Iran's Next President?

Monday, June 8, 2009 - 1:15pm
An exclusive national poll taken ahead of Iran’s presidential election is discussed by Ken Ballen, Azadeh Porzand, and Flynt Leverett.
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A Grand Bargain With Iran

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 1:00pm

The next U.S. president, whether it is Sen. John McCain or Sen. Barack Obama, should reorient American policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran as fundamentally as President Nixon transformed American policy toward the People's Republic of China in the early 1970s.

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Untangling the Paradox of Iran

Friday, September 26, 2008 - 1:15pm

On September 26, 2008 the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Program hosted Hooman Majd to discuss his recent book, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran.

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Nuclear Mind Reading

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 1:15pm
On April 9th, Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, hosted James Acton, a Lecturer in the Centre for Science and Security Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London for a talk entitled "Nuclear Mind Reading: Iran's Nuclear Intentions and the IAEA". Acton analyzed the IAEA's ability to assess states' intent?as opposed to their capabilities?and then asked what the IAEA means when it announces that an issue is ?no longer considered to be outstanding.?
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