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Ely Karmon, Iran Seek to Dominate the Middle East Through Terrorims


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Dr. Ely Karmon is a Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University (IDC), Herzlyia, Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in English and French Culture, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and the School of Oriental Languages in Paris and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Haifa. Advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, member of the Israel Atlantic Forum, participated in NATO workshops on terrorism and Mediterranean Dialogue. Former member of the Permanent Observatory on Security Measures at the United Nations Institute for Research on Interregional Crime and Justice (UNICRI), based in Italy (2000-2008). In 2002 he was a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Dr. Karmon is an expert on various issues of international terrorism, CBRN terrorism, the strategic influence of terrorism and subversion, and violence and political extremism.