Rosemary Kelanic is director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities, a think tank that promotes a foreign policy prioritizing restraint, diplomacy, and free trade to ensure U.S. security. Kelanic publishes widely on energy security, great power politics, and U.S. grand strategy in the Middle East. She is the author of Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics (Cornell University Press, 2020), and has co-edited, with Charles L. Glaser, Crude Strategy: Rethinking the U.S. Military Commitment to Defend Persian Gulf Oil (Georgetown University Press, 2016). Diwan interviewed Kelanic earlier this week to discuss her publicly expressed scepticism that the recent U.S. attacks against Iranian nuclear facilities did the damage that President Donald Trump and officials in his administration have claimed they did.
Iran’s Nuclear Program Has Survived | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
