our second speaker is barbara slaven who specializes on iran as a non-resident senior fellow at the atlantic counsel, a public policy scholar at the woodrow wilson scholars and an author and she was assistant managing editor for world and national security at the washington times and in 2008 and 2009 and prior to that she served for 12 years as senior diplomatic reporter for "u.s.a. today" where she covered such key issues as the u.s. led war aterrorism in iraq, policy towards rogue states and accompanied three secretaries of state on official travels and reported solo from iran, israel, egypt, north korea, saudi arabia and syria. our third speaker is alaraza nader, senior internal policy analyst and research focused iran's political dynamics, leads decision making and iranian foreign policy. he raises publications include coping with a nuclearizing iran, israel and iran, a dangerous rivalry, the next supreme leader, succession in the republic of iran, saudi rain an relations and many others. this commentaries have appeared in a varied of media including foreign policy, global security.org,