Tue, Mar 31
|801 E St NW
Profs & Pints DC: Understanding U.S.-Iran Relations
On the origins and future of a longstanding conflict, with Vali Nasr, professor of international affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Time & Location
Mar 31, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
801 E St NW, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “Understanding U.S.-Iran Relations,” on the origins and future of a longstanding conflict, with Vali Nasr, professor of international affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, co-director of the SAIS Rethinking Iran Initiative, and author of several books on Iran and the Middle East.
Iran has represented a foreign-policy challenge for the United States for nearly 50 years, with relations between the U.S. and that nation growing more tense and sporadically violent during the first year of President Trump’s second term.
Gain an understanding of what has driven the conflict, as well as what the future holds for Iran and its rivalry with the United States, with Professor Vali Nar, a leading expert who has advised senior American policymakers and world leaders on the region and whose many books on it include Democracy in Iran: History and the…