Iran Focus
Washington, 29 Jul – A former international nuclear inspector, an Iranian opposition figure, and the former Commander of the USS Cole will discuss the Iran Nuclear Deal and its impact on regional security, nuclear weapons verification challenges and its impact inside Iran at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Monday, 3 August at 10:30 a.m.
The panel will feature widely-respected nuclear inspector Dr. Olli Heinonen of Harvard’s Belfer Center, who served as deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Commander Kirk Lippold, Commander of the USS Cole which was attacked by terrorists in Yemen in 2000; and Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the US Representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), who first exposed Iran’s major nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak in 2002, and is the author of the book ‘The Iran Threat’.
The news conference is scheduled for Monday, 3 August at 10:30 a.m. in the club’s Zenger Room, on the 13th floor of the National Press Building, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
Under the 14 July nuclear deal, world powers agreed to lift sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program.
