Kasra Aarabi is the Iran Programme Lead at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where he specialises in Iran and Shia Islamist extremism. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. Kasra is a native Persian (Farsi) speaker and holds an MA (Hons) in international relations and a BA in international politics, both from King's College London. He is also undertaking a PhD at the University of St Andrews, where his research focuses on Iran's Revolutionary Guard.