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Speaker: Seyed Hossein Mousavian.
Ambassador Mousavian is singularly qualified to speak on prospects for U.S.-Iran relations. An Iranian policymaker and scholar, he headed the Foreign Relations Committee of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami; served on Iran's nuclear diplomacy team in negotiations with the European Union and International Atomic Energy Agency; and served as foreign policy advisor to SNSC Secretary Ali Larijani.

Mousavian had previously been editor-in-chief of the influential daily Tehran Times. A prolific author then and now, his most recent book is The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir, published this year by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.