Kasra Aarabi

Kasra Aarabi is a senior analyst in the Extremism Policy Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where he specializes in Iran and Shia Islamist extremism. He is also a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. Kasra is a native Persian (Farsi) speaker and holds an M.A. in international relations and a B.A. in international politics, both from King’s College London. He is also undertaking a Ph.D. at the University of St Andrews, where his research focuses on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.