We welcome you to join Sima Shine, Kasra Aarabi & Patrick Clawson - three of the world’s leading US, Israeli & UK-Iranian Iran-experts. They will spotlight the challenges and opportunities of Iran’s Nuclear program & it’s regional policies
on this upcoming
MONDAY 15th MARCH 2021 at 16:30-18:00 (CET, Roma, Berlin, Wien, Oslo, Praha) 17:30-19:00 (Israel)
We invite you to join us, listen to and to pose your questions to:
SIMA SHINE (Israel). Prior to taking on her role as Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Israel’s leading think tank, Sima Shine was Deputy Director General of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, responsible, inter alia, for the Iranian file. She entered the ministry after having served as Deputy Head for Strategic Affairs of Israel's National Security Council and after many years of service within the Israeli Intelligence Community where she headed the Mossad’s Research & Evaluation Division. At the Mossad, she was in charge of the production of both daily and periodical evaluations on Middle Eastern and international issues.
KASRA AARABI (British-Iranian) Analyst in the Extremism Policy Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where he specialises in Iran and Shia Islamist extremism. He is also a Non-Resident Scholar on the Iran Programme at the Middle East Institute. A native Farsi speaker, his expertise covers Iran’s military and security forces, with a focus on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij, the role of Iran and Shia militias across the Middle East as well as Europe-US-Iran ties. He previously worked as a researcher and coordinator for the UK House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Group on Iran, and as a foreign policy researcher for former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw where he focused on issues relating to the Middle East.
PATRICK CLAWSON (USA) is Morningstar Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Washington Institute, where he directs the Viterbi Program on Iran and U.S. Policy. Widely consulted as an analyst and media commentator, he has authored more than 150 articles about the Middle East and edited eighteen books or studies on Iran. Dr. Clawson appears frequently on television and radio, and has published op-ed articles in major newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. He has also served as an expert witness in more than thirty federal cases against Iran. He was a senior research professor at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies and a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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