Colin H. Kahl
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Colin H. Kahl is an associate professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. The following is excerpted from November 13, 2013, testimony during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on “Examining Nuclear Negotiations: Iran After Rouhani’s First 100 Days.” The long-simmering nuclear crisis with Iran is approaching a critical inflection point. The election of Hassan Rouhani, a moderate former nuclear negotiator, as Iran’s new president has re-energized diplomacy between Iran and the P5+1 (the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia)….