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The Iran Index
Nicholas Jahr
August 22, 2015
Who's Backing the Deal
by Nicholas Jahr
- James B. Cunningham, Ambassador to Israel (2008 - 2011)
- Daniel C. Kurtzer, Ambassador to Israel (2001 - 2005)
- Edward S. Walker Jr., Ambassador to Israel (1997 - 2000)
- William C. Harrop, Ambassador to Israel (1992 - 1993)
- Thomas R. Pickering, Ambassador to Israel (1985 - 1988)
- Frank Wisner II, Ambassador to Egypt (1986 - 1991)
- Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1990 - 1992)
- Ryan Crocker, Ambassador to Iraq (2007 - 2009) & Ambassador to Afghanistan (2011 - 2012)
- Former Sen. Gary Hart (D - CO)
- Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D - SD)
- Sen. Mark Udall (D - CO)
- Former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton (D - IN)
- William Perry, former Secretary of Defense (1994 - 1997)
- Michele Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
- Joseph Nye, former Assistant Secretary of Defense & Chairman National Intelligence Council
- Adm. Eric Olson (ret.), commander of U.S. Special Operations Command
- Morton H. Halperin, former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State
- Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning, the Department of State
- Barnett R. Rubin, former Senior Adviser to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor
- Robert Einhorn, former Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation (1999 - 2001) & special advisor to the Secretary of State for non-proliferation and arms control (2009-2013); Einhorn had been part of the negotiating team and in late June signed a statement skeptical of the then-gestating deal
- Former Member of the Knesset Dr. Roman Bronfman
- Maj. Gen. Amiram Levin (ret.), former deputy of the Mossad director
- Former Member of the Knesset Brig. Gen. Amira Dotan (ret.)
- Brig. Gen. Uzi Eilam (ret.), Director of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission
- Former Police Chief Assaf Heffetz
- Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah
- Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, JCC Manhattan
- Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, Kolot Chayeinu
- Rabbi Stephen Garfinkel, Associate Provost & Assistant Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary
- Toby Dalton, Co-Director, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Ilan Goldenberg, former Iran Team Chief, Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
- Amb. Joseph Wilson, former Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton & Senior Director of the National Security Council
- Amb. Norman A. Wulf, former Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Non-Proliferation (1999 - 2002)
- Amb. Sergio Duarte, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs
- Dr. Ali Vaez, Senior Iran Analyst, International Crisis Group