Advertisement

Topic: Vali Nasr

Jump to

Latest Headlines Quotes

Buttigieg receives more foreign policy endorsements than Biden

U.S. News // 4 years ago

Buttigieg receives more foreign policy endorsements than Biden

More than 200 foreign policy and national security professionals announced endorsements Monday for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

UPI NewsTrack TopNews

News from United Press International, around the world around the clock ...

World News // 1 decade ago

Multination Iran nuclear talks to resume

Multinational talks over the fate of Iran's nuclear program are set to resume later this month, German and U.S. officials confirmed.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Report: U.S. OKd arming Libyan rebels

U.S. officials secretly approved arm shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar but grew concerned when they learned militants got some of the arms, officials said.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Report: U.S., Pakistan discuss operations

The United States and Pakistan are discussing possible new joint military efforts against Islamic militants, sources told The Wall Street Journal.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

U.S. Afghan policy thwarted by infighting

Infighting within President Obama's foreign policy staff thwarted the late Richard Holbrooke's efforts to deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan, a new book says.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

No U.S. objections to Taliban office

Washington supports a national reconciliation program led by the Afghan government, government officials said amid claims the Taliban are willing to talk.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

U.S. said poised to free Taliban prisoners

Washington agreed in principle to free Taliban officials in Guantanamo to get the Taliban to open a peace-talk office in Qatar, a British newspaper reported.

World News // 1 decade ago

Sadrists: Dissolve parliament

Iraqi lawmakers with ties to rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called for the country's parliament to be dissolved and for new elections within six months.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Deep rifts growing in Tehran

Political infighting in Iran reflects basic differences in the ideology used to define the Islamic republic after the 1979 revolution, a scholar writes.

Quotes

Sadr is popular politically, the grand ayatollahs religiously. There is a tense standoff between them. They both hold power and popularity, and that is what makes the situation so tense and volatile
All eyes on Najaf Apr 23, 2008

The Shiites can say, 'We performed better than the Sunnis in standing up for our interests,
Shiites on a roll; may muddle U.S. policy Aug 20, 2006

Vali Reza Nasr (Persian: ولی نصر, born 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.

An expert in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs and Islam and politics, in January, 2006, Nasr was named the Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think-tank focusing on foreign policy. He was also a Senior Fellow with The Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University between 2007 and 2009. He was named Carnegie Scholar in 2006.

The Wall Street Journal reported on February 9, 2009, that Richard Holbrooke has hired Nasr to advise the Obama Administration on US-Iran relations.

FULL ARTICLE AT WIKIPEDIA.ORG

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Vali Nasr."