Kasra Aarabi

Analyst, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Profile

Kasra Aarabi is an analyst in the Co-Existence team at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He focuses on Iran, in particular its regional role, broader foreign policy and Shia ideology.

Before joining the Institute, Kasra worked as a researcher and coordinator for the UK House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Group on Iran. He previously worked as a parliamentary researcher for former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, where he focused on foreign policy.

Kasra speaks Farsi (Persian) and holds an MA (Hons) in international relations and a BA in international politics, both from King’s College London.

Latest from Kasra Aarabi

Creating Radicals: Inside the Indoctrination Programme of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

The Institute’s new report on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) translates and analyses for the first time the internal training manuals which the IRGC uses to radicalise its recruits. This research reveals the deeply extremist and radical nature of these training manuals and forms a critical part in explaining how and why the group operates in the way that it does.

Commentary | 11th Feb 2020

Iranian members of the Basij militia take part in an anti-US rally

Beyond Borders: the Expansionist Ideology of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

The Institute’s new report on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) exposes the internal training manuals which the IRGC uses to radicalise its recruits. This research reveals the deeply extremist and radical nature of these training manuals and forms a critical part in explaining how and why the group operates in the way that it does. This is the first time these manuals have been translated and analysed from Persian to English. 

 

 

 

Report | 4th Feb 2020

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