Ilan Berman

Ilan Berman is an Adjunct Professor at the American University School of International Service, he trades in the "Iran threat". He is the author of Tehran Rising: Iran's Challenge to the United States. He is the vice president for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council and is listed as an "expert" on the right-wing pro-Israel Middle East Forum's website. He is also a contributing expert with the Ariel Center for Policy Research.

In a testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services Berman used a dubious Israeli source to push for action against Iran:


 * This past December, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, the chief of staff of the Israeli defense forces, told a Knesset parliamentary committee that Iran will reach the “point of no return” in acquiring the knowledge to build a nuclear weapon by March 2006.

He concluded by saying:
 * ...the goal of the United States should not simply be to contain and deter a nuclear Iran. It should also be to create the necessary conditions for a fundamental political transformation within its borders, through forceful public diplomacy, economic assistance to opposition elements, international pressure and covert action.

Afflitiations

 * American Foreign Policy Council - Vice President
 * Ariel Center for Policy Research - Contributing Expert
 * Committee on the Present Danger
 * Eurasia Program - Director
 * Iran Freedom Initiative - Director
 * JINSA - editor of its flagship publication the Journal of International Security Affairs
 * Middle East Forum

Publications

 * Partnership in Transition: US-Israel Strategic Cooperation Beyond the Cold War, (Washington, DC: Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, 2000).
 * Tehran Rising: Iran's Challenge to the United States(Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
 * Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) - co-edited with J. Michael Waller

Berman serves as an editor for the following publications:


 * Eurasia Security Watch
 * Iran Democracy Monitor
 * Journal of International Security Affairs
 * Missile Defense Briefing Report

Contact
Tel: 202-543-1006 Fax: 202-543-1007 Email: berman@afpc.org