LobeLog Features Atlantic Council Iran Event

Fast Thinking
Oct 2, 2024

What is Iran thinking now?

By
Atlantic Council

Tehran launched nearly two hundred missiles at Israel on Tuesday. Atlantic Council experts consider the ways that the barrage—which was largely ineffectual—offers a window into Iranian thinking.

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IranSource
Oct 2, 2024

It’s time Iran’s artists be considered as human rights defenders

By
Sanjay Sethi and Johanna Bankston

International recognition of the acute risk creatives face in Iran is necessary to ensure their vital role in advocating for human rights continues.

Civil Society
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LobeLog Features Atlantic Council Iran Event

New Atlanticist
Sep 28, 2024

Experts react: Hassan Nasrallah is dead. What’s next for Hezbollah, Israel, and Iran?

By
Atlantic Council experts

On Saturday, Hezbollah confirmed that its leader had been killed in an Israeli air strike. Atlantic Council experts share their insights on what might come next for the already war-torn region.

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Oct 8, 2024

A bipartisan Iran strategy for the next US administration—and the next two decades

As tensions spike in the Middle East, how should the next US president approach Iran and its network of proxies including Hezbollah and Hamas? With a strategy that can be maintained for decades, by administrations of either party. A bipartisan, expert working group lays out the details.

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Blinded Iranian activist Elaheh Tavakolian: ‘We lost our eyes on this path. Let us not lose sight of our goal’

By
Holly Dagres

Holly Dagres sits down with blinded Iranian activist Elahe Tavakolian to share her story and discuss the situation in Iran and what the West needs to do.

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2025 will be a decisive year for Iran’s nuclear program

By
Danny Citrinowicz  

Diplomatic deadlines and regional factors will force Iran to decide soon whether to strike a deal or seek a nuclear weapon. Either choice will have major ripple effects.

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How to wrestle with an ayatollah 

By
Khosro Sayeh Isfahani

If one looks closely, the ancient Persian sport of wrestling might have answers to understanding how to contain Iran

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Feb 4, 2016

LobeLog Features Atlantic Council Iran Event

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Feb 4, 2016

Vakhshouri Joins Middle East Institute For Event on Iran Nuclear Deal

By Sara Vakhshouri

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New Atlanticist

Feb 3, 2016

Americans and Iranians Grappled Long Before the Nuclear Talks

By Mitch Hulse

‘Sports diplomacy’ laid the groundwork for detente, says US official Decades before the United States and Iran agreed on the historic nuclear deal, international sports federations were working together to break down diplomatic barriers and prejudices between the two countries. Since 1998, wrestling rings and volleyball courts in Tehran and California—not Washington conference rooms—have been […]

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In the News

Feb 3, 2016

Slavin in Al-Monitor: New Poll Says Iranians Like Zarif, Dislike United States

By Barbara Slavin

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Feb 2, 2016

Bryza Interviewed by Vestnik Kavkaza on Iran’s Relations With The West and The Caucasus

By Matthew Bryza

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Event Recap

Feb 2, 2016

Pin-Down Diplomacy: How Wrestling Promotes US-Iran Ties

By South Asia Center

Much as “ping-pong diplomacy” helped break the ice between the United States and China in the 1970s, “pin-down diplomacy” between the wrestlers of the United States and Iran has been instrumental in changing perceptions about Iranian and American society, and building bridges between sports communities and ordinary citizens. On February 2, The Atlantic Council’s Future […]

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Feb 1, 2016

Vakhshouri Joins BBC Persian NewsHour to Discuss Iran’s Petroleum Contracts

By Sara Vakhshouri

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Jan 29, 2016

Slavin Quoted by Christian Science Monitor US Private-Sector Engagement in Iran

By Barbara Slavin

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Jan 29, 2016

Slavin Hosts ‘Issues In The News’ on Iran’s Engagement with Europe and Syria Peace Talks

By Barbara Slavin

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Jan 25, 2016

Seznec Joins CNBC Money To Discuss China-Iran Trade Deal

By Jean-François Seznec

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Khosro Sayeh Isfahani

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Carmiel Arbit

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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Hagar Hajjar Chemali

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Danny Citrinowicz  

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