Kings and Ayatollahs: Iran's National Security - A History 🎧Podcast: bit.ly/HbN-S5E31-Iran-Grand-… 🚩In this interview: ►What is it about Iran and its history that separates it from the rest of the Middle East? ►Who was Reza Shah and why is he so important to Iran's modern history? ►What was the last Shah's primary national security fear? ►Have the Ayatollahs continued the Pahlavis' national security strategies? ►If not, in what respects are the Ayatollahs' national security strategies different than the Pahlavis'? ►If so, in what way are they similar? ►What is forward defense? ►What is scared defense? ►What was the Shah's green plan? 🚩About My Guest Scholar: Dr. Vali Nasr is a professor and former dean of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he is now the co-director of the SAIS Rethinking Iran Initiative. Dr. Nasr has advised world leaders, business leaders, and senior American policymakers, including the U.S. President, Secretary of State, senior members of Congress, and presidential campaigns. In this interview, we discuss his latest book, "Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History". 🚩Where to find my program: Home: historybehindnews.com Spotify: 🎧 bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Spotify Apple:🎧bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Apple YouTube: 🎞️ bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub ▶️Adel Aali, Host & Producer History Behind News podcast Scholars Unravel Middle East podcast ►177 Scholars & Counting: Our guests are scholars in prestigious institutions, such as Oxford, Yale, Caltech, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the Hoover Institution, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, King's College London, Princeton University, Notre Dame, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, the Atlantic Council, Duke, University of Michigan, Rhodes College, Northwestern Law, Vanderbilt University, US Naval War College, Air Command and Staff College, Marine Corp University, UVA, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, NYU, Rice, University of Chicago, Baylor University, USC, UC Berkeley, UCSF, UCI, UCSD, UC Davis, UCR, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Israel Democracy Institute, University of Aberdeen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Navarra, University of Seville, Helsinki University, Diego Portales University (Chile), Lund University (Sweden), University of Edinburgh, Near East University (Türkiye), Cardiff University, the Free University of Berlin and many others. They include Pulitzer Prize winners, former White House advisors and other high-ranking government officials, and current and former senior reporters at The Wall Street Journal. Many have testified in Congressional hearings and others frequently contribute to major media outlets and widely read publications, ranging from the BBC, NPR, PBS and CNN to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Learn more about History Behind News at historybehindnews.com @vali_nasr #Iran #iranisraelwar

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