


Why Iran Prefers The Eastern Bloc Over The West
by Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Dr. Mike Martin
Visiting Research Fellow King’s College London

Audrey Alexander
Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism
at The George Washington University

Colonel Brian R. Bruckbauer
Director of Expeditionary Support, Air Force Installation, and Mission Support Center

Asha Castleberry
U.S. Army Veteran
Co-Founder of International Youth Council

Captain Clint Carroll
U.S. Navy Commander of Amphibious Squadron 3, the Essex Amphibious Ready Group,
and USS Robert G. Bradley (FFG-49)

Yaël Eisenstat
Former CIA Analyst, Diplomat,
and National Security Advisor to VP Biden

Carol Giacomo
Former Diplomatic Correspondent
for Reuters in Washington

Zachary K. Goldman
Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security
at NYU School of Law

Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and Director
for South and Central Asia

David Hunt
Retired Senior Officer
from the Central Intelligence Agency

Dr. Kimberly Marten
Director of Program on U.S.-Russia Relations
at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute

Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Rachel Bronson
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Rajan Menon
Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War
and Peace Studies at Columbia University

Ambassador Seyed Mousavian
Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist
at Princeton University

Jonathan Pollack
Senior Fellow Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution

Ahmed Rashid
Journalist and Writer

Colonel George M. Reynolds
U.S. Air Force
and Former Commander of the 55th Wing

Adam Segal
M. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations

Ambassador Yuriy A. Sergeyev
Former Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations
and Fellow at Yale University

Dr. Gary Sick
Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar
at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute

Sheila Smith
Expert on Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy and Senior Fellow for Japan Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations

Christian Stephen
Journalist
Freelance Society

Ambassador Bruno Stagno Ugarte
Deputy Executive Director (Advocacy)
at Human Rights Watch

Colonel Rick Ullian
Artillerymen U.S. Army
and Former Brigade Commander in Europe

Captain Jeromy Williams
U.S. Navy
Former Commander of Naval Special Warfare Development Group

Peter Zwack
United States Senior Defense Official
and Attache to the Russian Federation

Europe Must Work With Iran
By Mohammad Javad Zarif

Hitting Erdoğan Where It Hurts, Not Where It Helps
By Lisel Hintz and Blaise Misztal