In the spring at some point. I will also be presenting on it at the Elliot School of International Relations at GW while working as a visiting scholar.

I like Bluesky, but pretty much stopped posting. I had a lot of people follow me when I first joined (a small amount compared to most) and after posting for several months I received zero engagement...so now I just read and comment occasionally. I get it, I have never been good at social media.

Yes

It is tucked into the State Department Reauthorization Act under "reauthorization provisions."....which, fyi, is a bipartisan Act. It is the last clause in the document.

foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-r...

Photos taken on my walk this evening.

I have a book coming out on U.S. Iranian relations from a viewpoint that has not been covered, and Operation Ajax is covered in the first chapter. I teach it in my Middle East classes. Every one of my students knows and will know about what happened in Iran.

Several of us moved back to using old-fashioned Blue Books for exams during the Spring semester.

And this is the hat.

This is the whole photo.