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Samir Tata is a freelance foreign policy analyst based in Reston, Virginia. He has previously served as an intelligence analyst with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, a staff assistant to Senator Dianne Feinstein, and a research associate with Middle East Institute, Atlantic Council, and National Defense University. His monograph, Iran: The Case for Détente, was published in 2008 as an Emirates Occasional Paper by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. He has a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and History from the University of Virginia, and a M.A. in International Affairs from the George Washington University.