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Kasra Aarabi

Kasra Aarabi

Kasra Aarabi is the Iran program lead at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where he specializes in Iran and Shiite Islamist extremism. He is also a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. He is working on a doctoral degree at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where his research focuses on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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A Shadowy Paramilitary Group Leads the Bloody Crackdown on Iran’s College Campuses

A Shadowy Paramilitary Group Leads the Bloody Crackdown on Iran’s College Campuses

The bloody crackdowns at universities across Iran are not being led by the usual suspects — the police, the IRGC or its Basij militia. Rather, the brutal repression is being driven by a shadowy paramilitary group almost unknown beyond Iran’s borders.

Saeid Golkar,
Kasra Aarabi