[05.05.10] Iran and Israel - Ideological or Strategic Rivalry?
The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs [NUPI], in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (Noref), has the great pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with Trita Parsi, the author of Treacherous alliance: the secret dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Iran and Israel:
Ideological Calculus or Strategic Rivalry?
Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council, will focus on the driving forces of Iran's foreign policy particularly vis-à-vis Israel. Mr. Parsi will assess whether past patterns may have changed as a result of the June 2009 election.
Programme [13:00-14:30]
Chair: Jan Egeland, Director NUPI
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Iran and Israel - Ideological Calculus or Strategic Rivalry?
Trita Parsi, President, the National Iranian American Council
Commentators:
- Ambassador Roald Næss, the Norwegian Embassy in Iran
- Professor Daniel Heradstveit, NUPI
Trita Parsi is an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian politics, and the balance of power in the Middle East. Mr. Parsi is the author of Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press, 2007.) He wrote his Doctoral thesis on Israeli-Iranian relations at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 2006.
He is a frequent commentator on US-Iranian relations and Middle Eastern affairs, and has appeared on BBC World News, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN (Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room, Anderson Cooper 360°), CNN International (Your World Today), Al Jazeera, C-Span, NPR, MSNBC, Voice of America and British Channel 4.
Dr. Parsi has worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the UN in New York where he served in the Security Council handling the affairs of Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan and Western Sahara, and the General Assembly's Third Committee addressing human rights in Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq.
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