Alone in the Middle East! Imperial Iran… Safavids, Qajars, and even the Pahlavis - alone in the Middle East. And then, the Ayatollahs. Again, Iran alone in the Middle East.
🚩In this interview:
►What is it about Iran and its history that separates it from the rest of the Middle East?
►Who was Reza Shah and why is he so important to Iran's modern history?
►What was the Mohammad Reza Shah's primary national security fear?
►Have the Ayatollahs continued the Pahlavis' national security strategies?
►If not, in what respects are the Ayatollahs' national security strategies different than the Pahlavis'?
►If so, in what ways are they similar?
►What is forward defense?
►What is scared defense?
►What was the Shah's green plan?
🚩About My Guest Scholar:
Dr. Vali Nasr is a professor and former dean of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he is now the co-director of the SAIS Rethinking Iran Initiative.
Dr. Nasr has advised world leaders, business leaders, and senior American policymakers, including the U.S. President, Secretary of State, senior members of Congress, and presidential campaigns.
In this interview, we discuss his latest book - Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History.
🚩My Recommendations:
►2003 and Iran-US Failed Diplomacy: a discussion of Dr. Nasr's book - The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat
►How U.S. Sanctions On Iran Backfired On America: a discussion of Dr. Nasr's book - How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
►Ayatollahs of Iran: Dr. Nasr explains Iran's Byzantine government structure
►History of Hijab in Iran: a conversation with Dr. Janet Afary (U.C., Santa Barbara), author of Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage (Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East)
🚩Adel Aali
host & producer
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