Behnam Ben Taleblu is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a non-partisan think-tank in DC where he covers Iranian political and security issues. Mr. Taleblu has worked on the Iran question at FDD for over a decade, covering both functional and regional issues ranging from nuclear non-proliferation, arms control, foreign and security policy, sanctions, and internal Iranian matters. Often invited as an Iran subject matter expert to brief policy, academic, military, journalistic, diplomatic, as well as nongovernmental audiences across Washington DC, the U.S., and around the world, Mr. Taleblu’s writings and analyses have also been featured in various U.S. and international media outlets. Mr. Taleblu has testified on Iran before the Canadian Senate, several committees of the U.S. Congress, and has provided both oral and written evidence to the UK House of Commons’s Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. Taleblu is the author of “Arsenal,” a comprehensive monograph on Iran’s ballistic missile program.
