America’s Shifting Iran Policy: From George W. Bush to the Present

In the recently released book Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama—edited by former Bush national security advisor Stephen J. Hadley—readers have first-time access to thirty declassified Transition Memoranda drafted by Bush administration experts along with candid policy reappraisals by these same officials. The volume offers an opportunity for fresh ideas and analysis as the international community grapples with Iran’s ever-higher nuclear enrichment and aggressive regional posture. To discuss insights from the book and how they apply today, The Washington Institute is pleased to announce a virtual Policy Forum with Elliott Abrams, Dennis Ross, and Michael Singh. The event will be moderated by Nahal Toosi, Politico’s senior correspondent for foreign affairs and national security. Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the Bush administration, and as spec