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As the Islamic Republic of Iran restarts its nuclear programme under the aegis of a conservative new President and America steps up its rhetoric against the regime, is Iran heading ineluctably towards a military confrontation with the United States? What lessons can be learnt from Iraq, and what should the United Nations do? Speakers: Scott Ritter, former chief UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 and author of Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of America’s Intelligence Conspiracy; Fred Halliday, Professor of International Relations at LSE and author of The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology; Dan Plesch, broadcaster, security expert and author of The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace. Participating chair: Ewen MacAskill, Diplomatic Editor, The Guardian.