Events

Taken from nytimes.com.  This picture features Ahmadinejad giving a speech in front of an iranian flag emblazened with the nuclear symbol.
March 18, 2010

USIP grantee Dr. Boroujerdi will present the findings of his study on the Iranian political elite at this USIP and Wilson Center co-sponsored event.

AFP-Getty Images.  Iranians hold portraits of Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri during his funeral procession in the holy city of Qom on December 21, 2009.
March 12, 2010

Please join USIP for a panel discussion on the complex relationship between clergy and regime in Iran. This event will be webcast live beginning at 10:00am EST on March 12. 

March 2, 2010

A distinguished panel of experts will discuss the current movements in Iran today, many of which are led by women, and also reflect upon the past three decades of the shifting status of women in Iran.

Countries: Iran | Issue Areas: Women
Image via photobucket.com.  Women protest in Iran in green hijab.
February 1, 2010

On February 1st, USIP invited an expert panel to participate in a frank discussion of the conflict between the Iranian regime and opposition and its implications for the Obama administration.  

January 22, 2010

This USIP event examined the complex nexus between democratic change and U.S. security interests, with a principal focus on Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen.

January 20, 2010

On the one-year anniversary of President Obama's inauguration, USIP and POMED invited a public audience to assess the Obama administration's first year and to examine the administration's oppurtunities to implement its vision of a new beginning with the Arab and Muslim world.

Congressional Newsmaker Series
November 4, 2009

Thirty years to the day after the taking of the U.S. hostages in Iran, in the wake of their controversial June 2009 presidential election, the regime's ensuing crackdown against peaceful demonstrators, and recent news of U.S. funding cuts for Iran democracy programs, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) offered his views on how the U.S. should approach Iran on the issues of human rights and democracy.

Countries: Iran | Issue Areas: Human Rights
October 26, 2009

On October 26, 2009, USIP held a panel discussion with Amb. Linton Brooks, Joseph Cirincione, and Thomas Scheber on next steps for the START process and the START Follow-on Treaty.

mosque (Photo: NY Times)
October 15, 2009

USIP's Daniel Brumberg joined a panel of guest speakers, including Congressman Keith Ellison, for a lively discussion of USIP's new volume "Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World."

Negotiating with Iran cover (Image: USIP Press)
September 23, 2009

Critical to each other's foreign policy and security interests in the region, the United States and Iran have been locked in confrontation for over three decades, a period that has seen only limited contact and little mutual understanding. With a new administration in Washington and political uncertainty in the aftermath of the contested Iranian presidential elections in June, there is renewed debate in American policymaking circles about the nature, efficacy, and utility of negotiating with the Islamic Republic.