INVITATION - "What Iran Really Means, When they Speak of a Willingness to Negotiate" [9/6 UPDATE]

Wednesday: Iran announced that it is stepping up its Iranian enrichment, and even said it might exceed the 20% level, which would enable it to race toward a deadly nuclear bomb within weeks. This is not just another one of their technical violations. Preventing precisely this action was the entire reasoning behind the JCPOA, the nuclear deal of 2015, and this action nullifies the entire rationale behind the agreement

Meanwhile they have been playing brinkmanship with the international community, and are asking for $15 billion without preconditions, just for sitting down and talking.

And there are many in the international community, including French President Emanuel Macron, who are willing to take the bait.

These are very perilous developments. Please come and hear two of America’s brightest and most accomplished experts in this area at our EMET Seminar next Tuesday. Please RSVP below to be guaranteed a seat.

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As of this writing, both President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have indicated a willingness to re-negotiate the Iranian nuclear deal. This is a result of the G7 talks in Biarritz, France, and some powerful diplomatic maneuvers on the part of President Emanuel Macron.

President Rouhani has said, “If I knew that going to a meeting and visiting a person would help my country’s development and resolve the problems of the people, I would not miss it.” He later added, “We have to negotiate, we have to find a solution, and we have to solve the problem.”

What problem is it exactly that Mr. Rouhani would like to solve? Is it that his country is going broke because of the sanctions, or is it a way to loosen any remaining restrictions on his country’s race toward a nuclear bomb?

What is bringing Rouhani to the table? Is he actually negotiating in earnest, or trying, once again, to use the negotiations as a smokescreen behind which his country can continue to enrich uranium, continue to produce missiles, continue to threaten shipping in the Straits of Hormuz, and continue to be the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism?

TUESDAY, September 10th

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Dr. Walid Phares is an engaging and highly sought after Middle East expert and pacesetter, often predicting trends and situations on the ground years before they occur. He is a Fox News Expert, advisor to the US Congress and the European Parliament and served as a senior advisor on national security foreign policy to presidential candidate Mitt Romney 2012. Dr. Phares is the only expert/author who predicted the Arab Spring a year before it occurred in his pacesetting book, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (Threshold, a division of Simon and Shuster 2010). Dr. Phares holds an extensive CV and noteworthy achievements in the fields of academia, government strategies, media and publishing critical advice on combatting terrorism and countering jihadi radicalization both stateside and abroad.

Dr. Phares holds a Ph.D in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami, and a Political Science Degree from St Joseph University and a Law degree from the Lebanese University in Beirut and a Master in International Law from Universite' Jean Moulin in Lyons, France.

Mike Pregent is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He is a senior Middle East analyst, a former adjunct lecturer for the College of International Security Affairs, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University.

Pregent is a former intelligence officer with over 28 years experience working security, terrorism, counter-insurgency, and policy issues in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southwest Asia. He is an expert in Middle East and North Africa political and security issues, counter-terrorism analysis, stakeholder communications, and strategic planning.

Pregent served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm, served as a liaison officer in Egypt during the 2000 Intifada, as a counter-insurgency intelligence officer at CENTCOM in 2001, and as a company commander in Afghanistan in 2002.

He holds a Masters in Strategic Public Relations from The George Washington University and is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Defense Language Institute in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Dialect. Mike is a free-lance writer for the The Wall Street Journal and a contributing writer to the Daily Beast.

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