Leading Middle East Experts Join UANI

(New York, NY) – United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) today announced that Dr. Saeid Golkar and Dror Doron have joined its team as senior advisors. Led by a group of former leading diplomats, lawmakers, and security officials, UANI is spearheading efforts to educate the international community about the dangers the Islamic Republic poses to the world.

UANI CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following statement today announcing their appointments:

“I would like to welcome Saeid and Dror to UANI. Both bring a breadth and depth of experience and expertise on Iran and its broader proxy network that is second to none. Saeid is one of the world’s leading scholars on Iran’s military and security apparatus. He will use this skill set to contribute to UANI’s IRGC research unit and policy team and will join UANI’s advisory board as well.

“Dror recently concluded a nearly two-decade career as a top analyst on Hezbollah in the Office of Israel’s Prime Minister. With Hamas spearheading the largest slaughter of the Jewish community since the Holocaust on October 7, dealing with the challenge of Israel’s northern front, which Hezbollah dominates, will be more important than ever to ensure the safety and security of Israel. Dror will lead UANI’s work on Hezbollah and provide his singular insights into its decision-making for the media and the public.”

Biographies:

Saeid Golkar is a senior advisor at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) and UC Foundation associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He previously served as a senior fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Golkar received his PhD in political science from Tehran University in 2008 before moving to the U.S. in 2010. He has taught and conducted research at Stanford University and Northwestern University. His research focuses on international and comparative politics of authoritarian regimes, with an emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa. Golkar is an authority on the Basij militia and the IRGC, and his first book, Captive Society: The Basij Militia and Social Control in Post-revolutionary Iran (Columbia University Press, 2015), was awarded the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Silver Medal Prize.

Dror Doron is a senior advisor at United Against Nuclear Iran and served for 17 years in Israel’s government. He was an analyst and then senior analyst in the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, where he regularly briefed senior decision-makers on developments in the Middle East, particularly on Hezbollah. He served as a fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Intelligence Project. Dror holds Bachelor’s and Master of Arts degrees from Tel Aviv University. He is fluent in Arabic, English, and Hebrew.