Virtual Event - How to End the Iran War and Prevent Nuclear Weapons Use

Tuesday, October 20
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM 
(Eastern Standard Time)

Including a 30-minute Q&A.

Trita Parsi is co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is an award-winning author and the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Co-founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council, he is an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He has authored four books on US foreign policy in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Iran and Israel. He has been named by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy in Washington DC for five years in a row since 2021, and preeminent public intellectual Noam Chomsky calls Parsi “one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran.”

Parsi’s latest book – Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy (Yale University Press, 2017) – reveals the behind the scenes story to the nuclear deal with Iran.

Parsi has been published in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Jane’s Intelligence Review, the Nation, The American Conservative, the Jerusalem Post, The Forward, and others. He is a frequent guest on CNN, PBS’s Newshour, NPR, the BBC, and Al Jazeera and is a regular columnist at MSNBC.com.

Dr. Frank N. von Hippel is a professor of Public and International Affairs emeritus, Princeton University, a co-founder of both the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and The Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction, a founding co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, and a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors. A former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology, von Hippel’s areas of policy research include nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, energy, and checks and balances in policy making for technology. Most recently, he has been the coauthor of the book Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare (Springer, 2019) and the report Banning Plutonium Separation (International Panel on Fissile Materials, 2022).

The program is FREE, but registration is required.

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