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Gawdat Bahgat

Gawdat Bahgat is a professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He is the author of 12 books on the Middle East. The opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s alone and do not represent the views of the US government or the policies of the Department of Defense.


Articles by Gawdat Bahgat

A 2016 Great Prophet wargame in southeastern Iran. Credit: Hossein Zohrevand for Tasnim News Agency. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran nuclear deal negotiators must act with urgency, given Iranian and Israeli nuclear brinkmanship

By Gawdat Bahgat | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion