Iran and the U.S.: What Next?

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump repeatedly denounced the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — the “Iran Deal” to dismantle that country’s nuclear program — and said he would withdraw from the agreement. Just days after the inauguration, Iran conducted missile tests, drawing a warning from President Trump that Iran “was playing with fire.” Relations between the two countries have remained contentious, and the escalation and potential for conflict are causes for concern. Against this backdrop, Iran holds its presidential elections on May 19. President Hassan Rouhani and the reformists in Iran won the 2013 vote on a promise to improve Iran’s economy and integrate more broadly with the global economy — aligning with the aspirations of Iran’s restive and politically active young population. Further complicating matters, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is expected to step down in the near future, and there is much speculation about his successor and its implications.

Join Asia Society for a high-level discussion on the rapid changes and high stakes in the Iran-U.S. relationship, and the challenges that lie ahead.

SPEAKERS:

Ambassador John Limbert is the former deputy assistant secretary of state for Iran in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. He is a veteran U.S. diplomat and a former official at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, where he was held captive during the Iran hostage crisis.

Karim Sadjadpour is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and alumnus of Asia Society’s Asia 21 Young Leaders Network. He joined Carnegie after four years as the chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Washington and Tehran, where he conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals.

Gary Samore is Executive Director for Research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and member of the advisory board for United Against Nuclear Iran. He served for four years as President Obama’s White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Nazee Moinian (moderator) is a Ph.D. candidate at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Most recently she was a member of Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy advisory group on Iran. She also worked as a consultant on Iran at the Council on Foreign Relations where she interviewed foreign diplomats and acted as a liaison between Iranian political figures and their western counterparts.











When: Thu., Jun. 8, 2017 at 6:30 pm
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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump repeatedly denounced the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — the “Iran Deal” to dismantle that country’s nuclear program — and said he would withdraw from the agreement. Just days after the inauguration, Iran conducted missile tests, drawing a warning from President Trump that Iran “was playing with fire.” Relations between the two countries have remained contentious, and the escalation and potential for conflict are causes for concern. Against this backdrop, Iran holds its presidential elections on May 19. President Hassan Rouhani and the reformists in Iran won the 2013 vote on a promise to improve Iran’s economy and integrate more broadly with the global economy — aligning with the aspirations of Iran’s restive and politically active young population. Further complicating matters, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is expected to step down in the near future, and there is much speculation about his successor and its implications.

Join Asia Society for a high-level discussion on the rapid changes and high stakes in the Iran-U.S. relationship, and the challenges that lie ahead.

SPEAKERS:

Ambassador John Limbert is the former deputy assistant secretary of state for Iran in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. He is a veteran U.S. diplomat and a former official at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, where he was held captive during the Iran hostage crisis.

Karim Sadjadpour is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and alumnus of Asia Society’s Asia 21 Young Leaders Network. He joined Carnegie after four years as the chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Washington and Tehran, where he conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals.

Gary Samore is Executive Director for Research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and member of the advisory board for United Against Nuclear Iran. He served for four years as President Obama’s White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Nazee Moinian (moderator) is a Ph.D. candidate at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Most recently she was a member of Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy advisory group on Iran. She also worked as a consultant on Iran at the Council on Foreign Relations where she interviewed foreign diplomats and acted as a liaison between Iranian political figures and their western counterparts.

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