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Ferguson, Haass, and Zelikow: How to Stop Iran From Winning the War
An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warship in the Persian Gulf near Bushehr, Iran, on April 29, 2024. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)
As talks begin this Saturday, the top priority is clear: The Strait of Hormuz must reopen, but not on Iran’s terms.
By Niall Ferguson, Richard Haass, and Philip Zelikow
04.09.26 — International
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This Saturday, delegations from the United States and Iran are slated to head to Pakistan to try to negotiate a lasting end to the war between them. Among the bones of contention will be the Strait of Hormuz: the crucial waterway through which one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied gas normally passes. Iran’s closure of the strait since the conflict…

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Niall Ferguson
Sir Niall Ferguson, MA, DPhil, FRSE, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He is the author of 16 books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award. He is a columnist with The Free Press. In addition, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle, a New York-based advisory firm, a co-founder of the Latin American fintech company Ualá, and a co-founding trustee of the new University of Austin.
Richard Haass
Richard Haass is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the Substack Home & Away.
Philip Zelikow
Philip Zelikow is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a historian focused on world events and statecraft. A former diplomat, he served across five U.S. administrations.
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