Please note that this event will be held in Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium; and Berlin, Germany on the dates of Monday, March 26; Tuesday, March 27; and Wednesday, March 28, 2007
 
While the UN Security Council imposed limited sanctions against Iran in December 2006, Tehran’s leadership remains defiant in the face of growing international pressure. Despite a surge in diplomatic activity, the Islamic Republic refuses to halt its uranium enrichment activities. Now, as permanent Security Council members and the German government enact more punitive measures, AEI and the German Marshall Fund (GMF) will cosponsor a traveling debate in Europe to examine what courses of action the United States and its allies can take against Iran.

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a resident fellow at AEI; Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Israel and a contributing editor for The New Republic; and David Ignatius, a Washington Post columnist, will travel to Paris, Brussels, and Berlin to engage in roundtable debates and editorial meetings with local officials and media. In Paris, AEI, GMF, and the Institut Français des Relations Internationales will host a workshop with Philippe Carré, the director of strategic affairs for security and disarmament at the French Foreign Ministry, and Olivier Roy, a lecturer at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and one of France’s great scholars on Islam and the Middle East. In Brussels, Ronald Asmus, the executive director of the GMF’s Transatlantic Center, and Roger Cooper, the general director for external and politico-military Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, will join the debate. Finally, in Berlin, Gero von Randow of Die Zeit and Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the German Bundestag, will participate in a discussion. 

Paris, France
Monday, March 26, 2007, 10:00 a.m.–noon
Hotel Lutetia
Boulevard Raspail, Sixth Arrondissement

9:45 a.m.	Registration
10:00	Panelists:	Phillip Carré, French Foreign Ministry
		Reuel Marc Gerecht, AEI
		Yossi Klein Halevi, Shalem Center
		David Ignatius, Washington Post
		Olivier Roy, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Noon	Adjournment

For more information and to RSVP, please contact:
Institut Francais des Relations Internationales
27 rue de la Procession 75740 Paris Cedex 15, France
Tel.: 33 (0)1 4061 6000
Fax: 33 (0)1 4061 6060
E-mail: Ifri@ifri.org

Brussels, Belgium
Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Residence Palace
Rue de la Loi 155
1040 Brussels

4:45 p.m.	Registration
5:00	Panelists:	Roger Cooper, Office of the General Secretariat, Council of the European Union
		Reuel Marc Gerecht, AEI
		Yossi Klein Halevi, Shalem Center
		David Ignatius, Washington Post
	Moderator:	Ronald Asmus, German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Center
6:30	Adjournment

For more information and to RSVP, please contact:
Transatlantic Center, the German Marshall Fund of the United States
Résidence Palace
Rue de la Loi 155 Wetstraat
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: 32 2 238 5270
Fax: 32 2 238 5299
E-mail: infobrussels@gmfus.org

Berlin, Germany
Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
International Club im Auswärtigen Amt
Kurstraße 36, 10117 

3:45 p.m.	Registration
4:00	Panelists:	Reuel Marc Gerecht, AEI
		Yossi Klein Halevi, Shalem Center
		David Ignatius, Washington Post
		Ruprecht Polenz, German Bundestag
		Gero von Randow, Die Zeit
6:00	Adjournment

For more information and to RSVP, please contact:
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Oranienburger Str. 13/14
10178 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: 49 30 28 88 13 0
Fax: 49 30 28 88 13 10
E-mail: info@gmfus.org