U.S.- Iran Relations
Collision, Stand-off, or Convergence?
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Daniel Levy, Flynt Leverett, Steven Clemons
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This full-day conference on the future of U.S.-Iran relations, co-sponsored by the National Iranian American Council, was held as scheduled on Wednesday, despite the inclement weather and delayed opening of federal government offices.
Video of this event is available at right, while an MP3 audio recording can be downloaded below.
This event was supported by the Pluralism Fund, Kenbe Foundation, Ploughshares Fund and Open Society Institute.
02/14/2007 - 9:30am
02/14/2007 - 3:00pm
628 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC, 20510United States
Agenda
9:30 am - Coffee & Registration10:00 am - Welcoming Remarks
- Steven Clemons
Senior Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com - Trita Parsi
President, National Iranian American Council
Ruse or Opportunity? The Provenance of Iran’s Spring 2003 Negotiations Offer
- Flynt Leverett
Senior Fellow & Director, Geopolitics of Energy Initiative, New America Founadtion
Former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs, National Security Council - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of State - Trita Parsi (moderator)
President, National Iranian American Council
10:30 am - Iran’s Nuclear Challenge – Debating the Technical Dimensions
- David Kay
Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
Former IAEA/UNSCOM Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector in Iraq - Bruno Pellaud
Chairman, IAEA Experts Group on Multilateral Approaches to the Fuel Cycle
Former Deputy Director General and Head, IAEA Department of Safeguards - Maurizio Martellini
Secretary General for Landau Network - Centro Volta
Consultant on Non-Proliferation, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Joseph Cirincione (moderator)
Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy
Center for American Progress
12:00 pm - Luncheon: A Consideration of U.S. Options Toward Iran
- Steven Clemons (Introduction)
Senior Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com - The Hon. Jane Harman (Keynote pre-lunch)
Chairperson, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment
Committee on Homeland Security
U.S. House of Representatives - Francis Fukuyama (Keynote post-lunch)
Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy
School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
1:45 pm Iran’s Pretensions and a Turbulent Middle East
- The Hon. Matthew Levitt
Director, Stein Program on Terrorism, Intelligence and Policy, Washington Institute for Near East PolicyAnd Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis, US Department of the Treasury - Daniel Levy
Senior Fellow & Director, Middle East Policy Initiative, New America Foundation
Senior Fellow, Century Foundation
Former Senior Advisor to Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak
Lead Israeli Drafter, Geneva Initiative - Dafna Linzer
National Security Correspondent, Washington Post - Trita Parsi
President, National Iranian American Council - Bahram Rajaee (moderator)
National Iranian American Council
3:30 pm Adjournment
