IRAN - pariah no more? with Mark Dubowitz
b"Today we sit down in Israel with Mark Dubowitz, who is the CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), at a time that Saudi Arabia is reopening its embassy in Tehran, and Iran's relations appear to be flourishing with Beijing, Moscow and much of the Sunni Arab Middle East. Six months ago, Iran was under enormous pressure. What happened? \\n\\nIn his role as CEO of FDD, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC, Mark has advised the Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, and he has testified more than twenty times before the U.S. Congress and foreign legislatures.\\n\\nA former venture capitalist and technology executive, Mark has a master\\u2019s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University\\u2019s School of Advanced International Studies.\\n\\nAccording to The New York Times, \\u201cMark Dubowitz\\u2019s campaign to draw attention to what he saw as the flaws in the Iran nuclear deal has taken its place among the most consequential ever undertaken by a Washington think tank leader.\\u201d\\n\\nAccording to The Atlantic, \\u201cDubowitz has been helping design and push forward sanctions on Iran\\u2026establishing the FDD as D.C.\\u2019s ground zero for research and policy recommendations aimed at highlighting and fixing what Dubowitz saw as the flaws in the nuclear agreement.\\u201d"