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May 31, 2020

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Maximum pressure or maximum failure — America's shrinking options on Iran


Date: Thursday, June 4 

Time: 1:00-2:00 PM ET

The Quincy Institute invites you to a Zoom webinar on U.S.-Iran tensions and America’s shrinking options on Iran.

In May 2018, President Trump left the Iran nuclear deal and adopted a policy called "maximum pressure" — sanctions on steroids — ostensibly to force Iran to renegotiate a new deal. The new policy also promised to roll back Iran’s influence in the region, secure the release of all American prisoners in Iran, and completely eliminate Iran’s enrichment activities.

Two years later, Iran has increased its nuclear enrichment, the U.S. and Iran have been minutes away from war on at least two occasions, and Iran’s influence in the region is — according to the Trump administration itself — more problematic than before. Join us to discuss America’s options on Iran going forward.

Speakers include the former Obama administration official Jarrett Blanc, Independent journalist Negar Mortazavi, and MIT professor Barry Posen. The conversation will be moderated by QI’s Trita Parsi.

FEATURED

Honor the fallen, but not every war they were sent to fight
By Andrew Bacevich, President
Los Angeles Times, 5/25/20

Not least among the victims claimed by the coronavirus pandemic was a poetry recital that was to have occurred in March at a theater in downtown Boston.

I had been invited to read aloud a poem, and I chose “On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines,” written in 1899 by William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910). You are unlikely to have heard of the poet or his composition. Great literature, it is not. Yet its message is memorable.

This NBC executive became a conspiracy king and a pro-Trump media boss
By Eli Clifton, Director of Democratizing Foreign Policy
Daily Beast & Responsible Statecraft, 5/26/20


A former NBC executive who founded one of the earliest — and more successful — fake news websites quietly assumed a leadership role at The Epoch Times as the news outlet ramped up its pro-Trump messaging after the 2016 election.
PAST WEBINAR: South Korea’s legislative election results and implications for U.S.-South Korea relations
Speakers: Rep. Ami Bera, Ambassador Sung-hwan Kim, & Dr. Chung-in Moon. Moderated by Jessica Lee.
Co-sponsored by Quincy Institute & East Asia Foundation, 5/27/20

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PAST WEBINAR: The future of U.S.-Saudi relations
Speakers: Madawi al-Rasheed, Greg Gause, & Aaron David Miller. Moderated by Annelle Sheline.
Sponsored by Quincy Institute, 5/27/20

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