The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. (E.T.)
A key challenge for Iran's new President, Ebrahim Raisi, will be the talks with the United States and other countries on the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Iranian and US officials are becoming increasingly pessimistic about reviving the Iran nuclear deal as the US seeks to force Iran to accept follow-on talks on regional and missile issues as a condition for agreement while Iran is not willing to talk about them since the US withdrew from the JCPOA and refuses to give guarantees that it will not do so again. The seminar will discuss the current dilemmas and whether there is a way out.
About the speaker: Seyed Hossein Mousavian is a scholar of Middle East security and nuclear policy with the Program on Science and Global Security. He is a former diplomat who served as Iran’s Ambassador to Germany (1990-1997), Head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran’s National Security Council (1997-2005), Spokesman for Iran in its nuclear negotiations with the international community (2003-2005). His earlier books include “ A Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Approach to Nonproliferation” (2020); “Iran and the United States, An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace” (2014); “The Iranian Nuclear Crisis, A Memoir” (2012).