On November 5 2014, CITpax and ECFR organised a round table to discuss about Iran and the current political and security context in the Middle East. Elllie Geranmayeh, Policy Fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Programme of ECFR, Dr. Emma Hooper, Senior Associate Researcher at CIDOB and Roberto Toscano, Former Ambassador of Italy in Iran, analysed the détente with Iran, the future of the nuclear file and the ongoing negotiations, as well as the role of Iran as a regional actor and its strategy against ISIS.