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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
Nicholas Jahr is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn and a member of Jewish Currents’ editorial board. In the past he has written for the magazine about comics, film, the diaspora, Israeli elections, and Palestinian nonviolence. His work has appeared in the International New York Times, The Nation, City & State, and the Village Voice (RIP).