Nia quoted in The Guardian on the UN’s fact-finding mission in Iran

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Nia quoted in The Guardian on the UN’s fact-finding mission in Iran

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Nia quoted in The Guardian on the UN’s fact-finding mission in Iran

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Dec 8, 2022

Nia quoted in The Guardian on the UN’s fact-finding mission in Iran

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Dec 8, 2022

Nia joins NPR’s Morning Edition to discuss how other countries can help protestors in Iran

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Dec 8, 2022

Nia quoted in L’Orient Le Jour on the protests in Iran

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Inflection Points

Dec 4, 2022

Autocratic setbacks offer Biden his ‘inflection point’ for democracies

By Frederick Kempe

This year has been a tough one for the world’s worst authoritarians: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Dec 2, 2022

Kroenig in the Jerusalem Post on strike options against Iranian nuclear sites

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Jerusalem Post quotes Matthew Kroenig on Iranian nuclear proliferation

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Nov 28, 2022

Kroenig on Fox News Sunday discussing North Korea and Iran

By Atlantic Council

On November 27, Scowcroft Center acting director Matthew Kroenig was interviewed by Jennifer Griffin on Fox News Sunday discussing North Korea’s latest missile test and protests in Iran.

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IranSource

Nov 23, 2022

Drone sales to Russia spark a debate in Iran

By Javad Heiran-Nia

The revelation that Iran has sold drones to Russia that the latter is now using to attack Ukraine has touched off a debate about whether this growing closeness to Russia is in Iran’s national interest.

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Nov 22, 2022

Iranians are knocking clerics’ turbans off. This isn’t an anti-religion act but an indirect tool for accountability.

By Shadi Sadr

This viral trend of #Turban_Throwing is not an attack against Islam as a religion and faith, but rather a stand against a regime that has used religious practices as a cover to commit unimaginable violence.

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Nov 22, 2022

China-Israel Relations

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Assaf Orion joins us to discuss the complex Sino-Israeli relationship, Israel’s perspective on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Chinese-operated port of Haifa in Northern Israel, China’s meddling in Israeli domestic affairs and its role in the Israel-Palestine question, and Israel’s perspective on China's grand strategy on MENA.

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Nov 18, 2022

Iran’s export of drones to Russia will lead to more proliferation and threaten US partners

By Seth J. Frantzman

Russia’s increasing use of Iranian drones in the war in Ukraine has spotlighted the danger that Iran’s drones pose globally and regionally.

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Keir Lieber

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Bahar Ghandehari

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Mark Klamberg

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