Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, New York University
decades of archaeological survey and excavation in the Near East (since 1973), mainly in Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and teaching at universities in Europe, Australia and the USA; more recently in Armenia and Kurdistan; extensive publications in the field; over 280 articles, 20 books; see https://nyu.academia.edu/DTPotts

Iran and America: A forgotten friendship
Aug 01, 2018 14:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As President Donald Trumps rhetoric against Iran heats up again, it is worth recalling a time when the two countries had a distinctly different relationship. That time began in the 1800s, as American missionaries...