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Bahram Rajaee

Bahram Rajaee is director of international and external relations for the American Political Science Association. His writings on Iran have appeared in International Politics, the Middle East Journal, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and www.Iranian.com.

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Iran's nuclear challenge

A solution to the dangerous crisis over Iran's nuclear programme requires understanding the Tehran regime's calculations in the context of its post-1979 foreign and defence policy, says Bahram Rajaee.

Iran's conservative triumph

Iran’s people have elected religious hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a large margin over ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani. Whose victory is it, whose defeat? Iranian democrats assess their new predicament, and discuss what to do now.