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Fariborz Ghadar

Fariborz Ghadar
Fariborz Ghadar is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies and a professor at Penn State. He held a vice ministerial post in the Shah of Iran’s government.
Ideas

It’s Time to Bring Iran in from the Cold and End Sunni-Shiite Rhetoric

The Geneva nuclear deal with Iran could be the precise thing we need to end the Sunni-Shia rhetoric I grew up with. By Fariborz Ghadar

Ideas

Is It Time to Reassess Our Long-Term Alliances in the Middle East?

Should conversations between Washington and Tehran be focused on nuclear weapons when there are other economic and geopolitical factors in play? By Fariborz Ghadar