Understanding the Iran-Hezbollah Connection
Public Event
Date and Time
Thursday, August 17, 2006
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location
U.S. Institute of Peace
2nd Floor Conference Room
1200 17th St, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Directions
Hezbollah supporters, holding posters of leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, chant slogans during an anti-Israeli demonstration in Tehran, Iran on July 18.
(Photo: AP/Wide World)
Iran has made no secret of its special relationship with Lebanon's Hezbollah. Many commentators suggest that this relationship extends beyond Iran's providing the group with advanced weaponry, arguing that the Iranian government has been calling the shots in Lebanon.
What is Iran's role in fomenting the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah? What are the implications of the conflict for the Middle East at large? How should the U.S. and the international community respond?
Speakers
- Vali Nasr
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School
- Kenneth Pollack
Director of Research, Saban Center at the Brookings Institution
- Hadi Semati
Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on leave from his position as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Tehran University
- Ray Takeyh
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
- Daniel Brumberg, Moderator
Special Advisor, USIP Muslim World Initiative | Dept. of Goverment, Georgetown University
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