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Guest: Kelsey Davenport and Paul Pillar
The U.S.-Iran relationship is one the most pressing foreign policy challenges the Biden Administration will navigate in the coming years. CCWA was joined by Paul Pillar, Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, and Kelsey Davenport, Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, for a dialogue on effectively engaging Iran. The speakers reflected on the complicated history between the U.S. and Iran and gave insight into today’s most pressing issue, renewing the Iran nuclear agreement.
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