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Reza Parchizadeh

Reza Parchizadeh, PhD, is a political theorist, security analyst and cultural critic. He is a Ginsburg/Milstein Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

The ultimate goal must be to give the Iranian people the encouragement they need to topple the Islamist regime.
The West assumes that if the Islamist regime of Iran is granted some leeway, then it will stop its aggression towards other nations. But the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ leap for absolute power in Iran and its belligerent empire-building in the Middle East show otherwise.
The Iranian regime’s dramatic showcasing of the apparent ebb and flow of its nuclear project is a red herring.
The IRGC has spent decades working to export the regime’s Islamist brand of imperialism and conquest to the region and around the world.
Israel’s survival depends on the defeat of Islamism and the development of liberal democracy in the Middle East.
The “fake opposition,” run by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, mostly acts as padding for the Islamist regime abroad.
The Islamic Revolution in Iran, which brought Islamists to power for the first time in modern history, pitted the global left—perhaps best personified by Foucault—against the global right.