“There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see.”

American diplomat and political scientist

Condoleezza Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist. She served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009, and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Since 2020, she has been the 8th director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Her public life is rooted in American foreign policy and national security, and her work has centered on those fields.