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Patrick Clawson is the Morningstar senior fellow and director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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Biography

Patrick Clawson is Morningstar senior fellow and director of research at the Washington Institute, where he directs the Viterbi Program on Iran and U.S. Policy. Widely consulted as an analyst and media commentator, he has authored more than 150 articles about the Middle East and international economics and is the author or editor of eighteen books or studies on Iran.

Dr. Clawson appears frequently on television and radio, and has published op-ed articles in major newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. He has also testified before congressional committees more than twenty times and has served as an expert witness in more than thirty federal cases against Iran. Prior to joining The Washington Institute, he was a senior research professor at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies, a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and a research scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

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Education

Ph.D. in economics, New School for Social Research; B.A., Oberlin College

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Languages Spoken / Read

French

Persian

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Publications

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Most Recent Analysis

Iran's Coronavirus Crisis: Implications for U.S. Policy

April 16, 2020

Opposing an IMF Loan to Iran: Not an Outlier, Not a Barrier to Aid

April 14, 2020

Don’t Count Out U.S. Oil Production as a Market-Shaper

March 20, 2020

Soleimani’s Popularity Is Largely Limited to Iran

January 6, 2020

Iran’s New Budget Is Tight, But Not Tight Enough

December 13, 2019

Khamenei’s Domestic and Foreign Response Options to the Protests

November 21, 2019

Iran’s Gasoline Protests: Regime Unpopular but Resilient

November 18, 2019

Khamenei Will See Sanctions on Him as a Direct Challenge to the Revolution

June 27, 2019

Renewing the Iran Sanctions Waivers (Part 2): Energy and Afghan Trade

April 22, 2019

Renewing the Iran Sanctions Waivers (Part 1): Nuclear Activities

April 22, 2019

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Selected Outside Publications

Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran (Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, 2005), edited with Henry Sokolski

Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (Palgrave, 2005), coauthored with Michael Rubin • Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, 2004), edited with Henry Sokolski

U.S. Sanctions on Iran (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 1997)

Energy Security in the Twenty-First Century (NDU Press, 1995)

Iran's Strategic Intentions and Capabilities (NDU Press, 1994)

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