Sahar Nowrouzzadeh

Sahar Nowrouzzadeh is a joint research fellow with the Iran Project and the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Beginning her tenure as a career civil servant within the US government in 2005, she has focused on Iran under three US administrations. She served as a director for Iran and Iran nuclear implementation on the White House National Security Council staff from 2014 to 2016 and covered Iran on the secretary of state’s policy planning staff between 2016 and 2017. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the US government.