event

Negotiating with Iran: Istanbul and Its Aftermath

Mon. April 16th, 2012
Washington, D.C.

Nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group, the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany, took place April 13 and 14 in Istanbul. Is it possible for the United States to successfully engage Iran, or are negotiations with Tehran an exercise in futility? Two former senior Obama administration officials and noted Iran experts—Vali Nasr, newly named dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations—probed this question. George Perkovich, director of Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program, described feasible criteria for nuclear arrangements between Iran and the international community. Carnegie’s Karim Sadjadpour moderated. 

SecurityForeign PolicyNuclear PolicyUnited StatesMiddle EastIranTürkiyeGulf
event speakers

Vali Nasr

Ray Takeyh

George Perkovich

Japan Chair for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, Vice President for Studies

George Perkovich is the Japan chair for a world without nuclear weapons and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, overseeing the Nuclear Policy Program and the Technology and International Affairs Program. He works primarily on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation issues, and security dilemmas among the United States, its allies, and their nuclear-armed adversaries. 

Karim Sadjadpour

Senior Fellow, Middle East Program

Karim Sadjadpour is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East.