Iran Watchers and Experts
Iran specialists covering domestic, foreign, military, and economic affairs
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@nicolegrajewski.bsky.social
@hamidrezaaz.bsky.social
Ph.D. | Visiting Fellow @swp-berlin.org http://linkedin.com/in/hamidreza-azizi-fp
@marknkatz.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus, George Mason U. Schar School of Policy and Government; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council. Russian foreign policy; great power competition.
@jonathanfulton.bsky.social
Associate professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council. Research focuses on China-Middle East relations. Host of The China-MENA Podcast, author of China-MENA Newsletter on Substack.
@h0d3r.bsky.social
PhDing on listening and mass personalization @MediaLSE. Ex @MediaLab @Shorensteinctr+ Iran Evin prison (6yrs). co-wrote ‘Information Disorder’, wrote 'Web We Have to Save'.
@ladanrahbari.bsky.social
Associate prof in Political Sociology UvAmsterdam #MigrantAcademics #media #migration #nationalism #Islam #Iran #diaspora #gender Former FWO fellow, member@AmsterdamYoungAcademy "Migrant Academics Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe"
@marktfitz.bsky.social
Grandpa. Ex-Exec Director of IISS-Americas & head of IISS NonProlif & Nuclear Policy Program. Ex-expat in UK. Former State Dept.
@dassakaye.bsky.social
Longtime Middle East/global affairs/diplomacy observer. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. New book out Dec 2! https://www.sup.org/books/politics/enduring-hostility
@andreaghiselli.bsky.social
Lived 10+ years in China, now University of Exeter and ChinaMed Project. Published a book on China, its military, and its interests overseas (OUP, 2021): https://shorturl.at/S2BjTo More at https://andreaghiselli.com/ 无巧不成书
@aliahmadi.bsky.social
Director of Geoeconomics & Sanctions at ReshapeRisks | Executive Fellow Geneva Centre for Security Policy | [email protected]
@rasmuselling.bsky.social
Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian
@swarthy-bastard.bsky.social
Pitzer prof. Former kindergarten teacher, & sometime swarthy bastard. I work on democratic movements and the politics of postrevolutionary schooling in Iran.
@rezahakbari.bsky.social
PhD Candidate AU History - Program Manager IWPR MENA - IMES at GWU Alumnus - Iranian-American - Suffering Buffalo Bills fan - [email protected]
@vahidyucesoy.bsky.social
PhD in political science from Université de Montréal. Turkish and Iranian politics. News junkie. Tennis 🎾 fan.
@saeedaz1772.bsky.social
France 24 English's Tehran correspondent, The i paper's Tehran contributor.
@hdagres.bsky.social
Iranian-American • Atlantic Council editor + senior fellow, Iran focus • 15 years in MENA • Newsletter: http://theiranist.com (Shares ≠ endorsement)
@ebrewer.bsky.social
Deputy VP at Nuclear Threat Initiative. Previously Director for Counterproliferation at the National Security Council and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for WMD at the National Intelligence Council. Personal account/views my own.
@thomasjuneau.bsky.social
Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
@arashtehran.bsky.social
Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT http://bit.ly/3YVabaw | History PhD | Fellow @BUPardeeCenter | Writer @theatlantic columnist @thenationalnews | Flaneur | Film writer
@mehranhaghirian.bsky.social
Director of Regional Initiatives, Bourse & Bazaar Foundation | PhD. Gulf Studies, Qatar University | MA International Affairs, American University’s School of International Service | Diplomacy
@tparsi.bsky.social
2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Author of Losing an Enemy, Single Roll of the Dice & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.
@azodiac83.bsky.social
Iran ☢️ program. Adjunct professor at @GWU. PhD - I read on war and nuclear strategy. Posts are my views
@sinatoossi.bsky.social
senior fellow at the @CIPolicy.bsky.social | write a lot about Iran, US foreign policy, Middle East | bylines Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Guardian & elsewhere | check out my substack: sinabeyondborders.com
@suzannemaloney.bsky.social
VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
@yarbatman.bsky.social
I invest in developing economies and study how sanctions are reshaping West Asia and the world. CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation. Adjunct Prof at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
@lkrozen.bsky.social
Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
@nicolegrajewski.bsky.social
Fellow with Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program and Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | PhD from Oxford | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)