Senior Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in US Foreign Policy at American University and author of Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran; former staffer at the National Security Council (2001-2003) and State Department official (1990-1991)
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