EXPERTS TESTIFYING AT MAY 13TH HEARINGS
ON ALDERMAN JOE MOORE'S IRAN RESOLUTION

John Mearsheimer is Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. His books include Conventional Deterrence and The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. He has written op-ed pieces on Bosnia, nuclear proliferation, American policy towards India, the failure of Arab-Israeli peace efforts, and the folly of invading Iraq.

Scott Ritter was chief weapons inspector for the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq (UNSCOM). He is an intelligence specialist with a 12-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps. Ritter spent several months of the Persian Gulf War serving under General Norman Schwarzkopf with U.S. Central Command headquarters in Saudi Arabia, where he played an instrumental role in combat operations targeting Iraqi mobile missile launchers threatening Israel.He is the author of Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change.

Douglass Cassel is director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame Law School. A leading expert in international human rights law, he has served as a consultant on human rights to the Organization of American States and was a legal adviser to the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador. He delivers a weekly commentary on human rights for Chicago Public Radio.

Stephen Kinzer teaches international affairs and journalism at Northwestern University. A foreign correspondent for the New York Times for over 20 years, he reported from more than 50 countries on four continents and served as the paper’s bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua. His books include All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror and Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.

Norma Claire Moruzzi is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies and Director of the International Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Her writings on women and changing conditions in Iran have appeared in Middle East Report, Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and many other publications.

Farrah Hassen is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. and is a member of the team which produced the recent primer Iran in the Crosshairs: How to Prevent Washington’s Next War. She has published articles on U.S. policy in the Middle East, Iraq, and Iran. She was a research assistant at the National Security Archive in Washington, documenting the lead-up, entry and conduct of the 2003 war in Iraq.