On 3 January 2020, the United States assassinated Major General Qasem Soleimani of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Corps Guard (IRGC). The event was an escalation by the Trump Administration in what many critical analysts consider a decades-long war waged by the United States against the Islamic Re..
Maryam Alemzadeh, Eric Lob, and Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Maryam Alemzadeh is Harold Grinspoon Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. She has conducted research on post-revolutionary state building in Iran and the institutional history of the IRGC.
Eric Lob is an assistant professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University. His research focuses on the politics of development in the Middle East and beyond. Lob's forthcoming book is entitled Iran’s Reconstruction Jihad: Rural Development and Regime Consolidation after 1979. Based on fieldwork in Iran and Lebanon, the book examines how the Islamic Republic instrumentalized development to consolidate power domestically and project influence abroad. His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, Middle East Critique, The Middle East Journal, and Third World Quarterly, among other publications.
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, University of London and Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.