Iran-U.S. Project Conferences

Conferences

The following is a list of conferences and events that have involved the Iran-U.S. Relations Project.  It does not include individual public presentations by Project staff over the years.

• “Foreign Relations of the United States: Iran, 1951-1954,” workshop organized by the National Security Archive and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, September 11-12, 2017 
• “Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations During the Iran-Iraq War,” hosted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, October 15, 2012
• “Challenges in the U.S.-Iran Relationship, 2001-2009,” COH conference organized by MIT and the National Security Archive, Cambridge, MA, June 13-15, 2012
• “Missed Opportunities? U.S.-Iran Relations, 1993-2001,” COH conference organized by the National Security Archive, MIT, and Balsillie School of International Affairs, Musgrove Conference Center, St. Simons Island, GA, April 8-10, 2011
• “U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988,” COH conference organized by the National Security Archive, MIT and Brown University, Musgrove Conference Center, St. Simons Island, GA, December 12-14, 2008
• “An Overview of U.S.-Iraq Relations, 1980-1988,” Center for Strategic Research (Iran), Tehran, February 5, 2008
• “Missed Opportunities? U.S.-Iran Relations, 1997-2005,” COH conference organized by the National Security Archive, MIT, and Balsillie School of International Affairs, Bellagio, Italy, April 14-20, 2007
• “A Strained Partnership: European-American Relations and the Middle East from Suez to Iraq,” Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, September 7, 2006
• “The Carter Administration and the ‘Arc of Crisis’: Iran, Afghanistan and the Cold War in Southwest Asia, 1977-1981,” COH conference organized by the National Security Archive and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, July 25-26, 2005
• “The Origins, Conduct, and Impact of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988,” COH conference organized by the National Security Archive and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, July 19-20, 2004
• “Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia in the Cold War: Issues and New Archival Evidence,” organized by the National Security Archive, Tsinandali, Republic of Georgia, July 8-9, 2002
• “Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran,” hosted by St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, June 9, 2002
• “Towards an International History of the War in Afghanistan 1978-1989,” organized by the National Security Archive and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, April 29-30, 2002
• “Russia and Iran in the 20th Century,” hosted by the Centre for Documents and Diplomatic History (Foreign Ministry), Tehran, February 27, 2001
• “The United States and Iran, 1945-1953: The Road to Intervention,” hosted by the Azerbaijan Higher Diplomatic College, Baku, September 26, 2000
• “Iran and the Great Powers, 1950-53” hosted by the Centre for Documents and Diplomatic History (Foreign Ministry), Tehran, June 7-8, 2000
• “Iran and the Second World War,” hosted by the Institute for Political and International Studies (Foreign Ministry), Tehran, September 25-26, 1999

Conference Participants

The following is a partial listing of U.S., Iranian and other international figures who have taken part in some of our events: