American Foreign Policy Council:
Ilan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has consulted for both the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense, and provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and congressional offices. He has been called one of America's "leading experts on the Middle East and Iran" by CNN.
In the Spring of 2017, the management of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the U.S. government’s official coordinating body for international media, approached the American Foreign Policy Council with a request. In response to persistent criticism from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as well as mounting pressure from the newly-inaugurated Trump administration, the agency sought to commission an independent review of the content of its Persian-language media outreach. Such a process, BBG professionals explained, would help the agency to identify and rectify significant deficiencies at a time when the role of U.S. broadcasting toward the Islamic Republic was a topic of growing scrutiny (and skepticism) among those formulating the country’s strategy toward Iran...
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Trump reversing yet another one of Obama’s policies. I’m not sure Trump even likes Obama. Once during his presidency, Obama wanted to play golf at a Trump golf course, but he couldn’t. When asked about the incident, Trump said he had heard about it afterward.
Paid for out of his own pocket, it replaces a less sophisticated version installed during the Obama administration.
Trump, who owns more than a dozen golf courses, is an avid golfer. But the purchase comes with an irony given his attitude toward his presidential predecessor’s golfing habits.