At AJC Global Forum 2025's Max Fisher Annual Program, Elliott Abrams, senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. Special Representative for Iran, and Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution Dr. Suzanne Maloney joined AJC Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer Jason Isaacson for a critical conversation on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, its regional terror network, and the future of U.S. diplomacy and pressure strategies.

With Iran closer than ever to nuclear breakout and its terror networks still active, this critical session asks: Can diplomacy still work? Is maximum pressure the right path? And can the U.S. and its allies unite against the Iranian threat?


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