Behnam Ben Taleblu
Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Taleblu tracks a wide range of Iran-related topics, including nuclear non-proliferation, ballistic missiles and drones, sanctions, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies, the foreign and security policy of the Islamic Republic, and internal Iranian politics. Taleblu has testified before Congress and the Canadian Parliament and provided oral and written evidence to the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Previously, Taleblu worked on non-proliferation issues.