Robert A. Fox Lectures on the Middle East

The Future of Iran

Kenneth Pollack

September 16, 2008

Ken Pollack is Director of Research of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, and an expert on He was previously Director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council. He also spent seven years in the CIA as a Persian Gulf military analyst.

This was the inaugural event of the Robert A. Fox Lectures on the Middle East, a series made possible by contributions from Philadelphia philanthropist Robert A. Fox.

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