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born: 1926-10-07
category: Intelligence & Government
died: 2018-03-05
location: Haifa, Israel
summary: Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to Iran.
tags:
- Person
- CIA
- Israel
- Diplomat
---

Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to [Iran](/places/iran/). In 1978, he provided a trenchant analysis to the [CIA](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/) predicting that the Shah of Iran would not survive the popular uprising. The [CIA](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/) had rejected his view, despite their own embarrassingly inept reporting on [Iran](/places/iran/). Lubrani was attached to the Israeli delegation that negotiated the March 1979 [KH-11](/concepts/kh-11/) agreement in [Washington, D.C.](/places/washington-dc/).[^1]

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991.