On December 14, Gemunder Center Iran Task Force Co-Chair Ambassador Eric Edelman testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on U.S. Policy and Strategy in the Middle East.
Consistent with the Trump Administration's stated intention of pushing back against Iran's increasingly malign behavior throughout the Middle East, American policymakers urgently need to rebuild credibility and positions of strength by contesting Iran's rising influence across the region. Most urgently, the United States must impose real obstacles to Tehran's pursuit of total victory by the Assad regime in Syria. Time is of the essence, as Iranian-backed forces recently have retaken nearly all the country, save lands liberated from Islamic State (IS) by the U.S.-led coalition.
On October 11, 2017 JINSA Distinguished Fellow and Gemunder Center Iran Task Force Co-Chair General Charles Wald, USAF (ret.), testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on confronting the full range of Iranian threats.
With a new administration and Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House on February 15, and continuing aggression by the Iranian regime - including more ballistic missile tests - JINSA's Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy and United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) will co-host a lunch briefing with key policymakers and Iran experts to discuss the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal and U.S.-Iran relations at this uncertain time.