Nader Entessar - Trump and Iran: From Containment to Confrontation

Nader Entessar is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of South Alabama where he chaired the department of political science and criminal justice for several years before his retirement in 2017. A specialist in Irans defense and foreign policy, and security issues in the Persian Gulf, he is the coauthor, most recently, of Iran Nuclear Negotiations: Accord and Dtente since the Geneva Agreement of 2013 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and Iran Nuclear Accord and the Remaking of the Middle East (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi is an Iranian-American political scientist and author. He has taught political science at the University of Tehran, Boston University, and Bentley University, and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, Binghamton University, and the Center for Strategic Research, Tehran. He is the coauthor, most recently, of Iran Nuclear Negotiations: Accord and Dtente since the Geneva Agreement of 2013 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and Iran Nuclear Accord and the Remaking of the Middle East (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

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and Entessar, Nader. A Nuclear War in the Persian Gulf? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , July 2, 2019. Available at: https://thebulletin.org/2019/07/a-nuclear-war-in-the-persian-gulf/

. Iran Uses Hamas for Leverage in Nuclear Negotiations. Aljazeera America , August 13, 2014. Available at: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/8/iran-hamas-palestinenuclearnegotiations.html.

. Paradoxical Implications of the Ukraine Crisis for Iran Nuclear Talks. Iran Matters , Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, March 13, 2014. Available at: http://iranmatters.belfercenter.org/blog/paradoxical-implications-ukraine-crisis-iran-nuclear-talks.

. The Coming U.S.-Iran Showdown at UN. LobeLog , September 11, 2018. Available at: https://lobelog.com/the-coming-u-s-iran-showdown-at-un/