Behnam Ben Taleblu is the senior director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Iran Program, where he oversees the breadth and depth of FDD’s work on Iran in addition to serving as a senior fellow specializing in Iranian security and political issues. For well over a decade, Taleblu has supported FDD’s Iran Program as a senior fellow, research fellow, and senior Iran analyst. Prior to his time at FDD, Taleblu worked on nonproliferation issues at an arms control think tank in Washington. Leveraging his subject matter expertise and native Persian–language skills, he closely tracks a wide range of Iran-related functional and regional topics, including nuclear nonproliferation, ballistic missiles and drones, sanctions, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies, the foreign and security policy of Iran, and internal Iranian politics. Frequently called upon to brief journalists and congressional staff as well as diplomatic, military, academic, and policy audiences in Washington, across the United States, and around the world, Taleblu has testified before various committees in the U.S. Congress, Canadian Parliament, and United Kingdom’s House of Commons. Taleblu’s analysis has been quoted in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Fox News, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Politico, and Axios, among others. Additionally, he has contributed to or co–authored articles for The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico Europe, Fox News, The Hill, War on the Rocks, Newsweek, and The National Interest. Taleblu has appeared on a variety of broadcast programs, including PBS Newshour, BBC News, Fox News, CNN International, CBS News, C-SPAN, France 24, and Deutsche Welle. Taleblu earned his MA with honors in international relations from the University of Chicago and his BA in international affairs and Middle East studies from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Taleblu is also a member of the Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities and a contributing editor to National Security Journal.