Dangerous horizons: The future of the U.S.-Iran confrontation

Faculty Co-Chair of the Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs, Professor Melani Cammett moderated a timely discussion on the future of the U.S.-Iran conflict and the dangerous horizon that lies ahead with speakers Michael Singh, Trita Parsi, Stephen Peter Rosen, and Payam Mohseni. PANELISTS: Michael Singh, Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and managing director at The Washington Institute and a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council. Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute. He is an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign politics, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He has authored three books on US foreign policy in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Iran and Israel. Stephen Peter Rosen, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at the Department of Government at Harvard University and the Chair of the Weatherhead Research Cluster on International Security. Payam Mohseni, Director of the Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affaira. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as a Lecturer on Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. MODERATOR: Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government, Acting Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Chair of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. She also holds a secondary faculty appointment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. READ A RECAP OF THE EVENT HERE.