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Potkin Azarmehr

Potkin Azarmehr is a senior fellow at the Investigative Project on Terrorism and a London-based investigative journalist, business intelligence analyst, and TV documentary maker who was born in Iran.

Young Iranian women walk on the streets without wearing the mandatory hijab in Tehran, on Oct. 8, 2022. Photo by Anonymous/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images.

Regime change in Iran is a strategic necessity

Iran has a highly educated, young disaffected population alienated from its religious rulers who prop up their leadership by brute force and propaganda rather than genuine popular support.

Potkin Azarmehr

June 24, 2025

Faezeh Rafsanjani, daughter of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani. Credit: Investigative Project on Terrorism.

An unlikely dissident in Iran

The sand dunes of politics have shifted in such a way that the daughter of a founding father of the Islamic Revolution is calling for the regime’s military, a major sponsor of terrorism, to remain on the sanctions list.

Potkin Azarmehr and Steve Emerson

May 11, 2022