--- description: Kasra Aarabi is a senior analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change who specialises in Iran and Shia Islamist extremism title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kasra Aarabi ## Kasra Aarabi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Kasra Aarabi is a senior analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change who specialises in Iran and Shia Islamist extremism ## Kasra Aarabi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Nov 29, 2021 ### [As Iran's Nuclear Talks Resume, the West Needs to Understand Who It's Dealing With](https://time.com/6124064/iran-nuclear-talks-west/) A systemic change is well under way in the Islamic Republic, whose consequences should alarm the U.S... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 16, 2021 ### [Why Iran’s Elections Are a Critical Turning Point for Khamenei’s Regime](https://time.com/6073445/iran-elections-khamenei/) It marks the beginning of a new political system that will have ramifications both inside and outsid... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 11, 2021 ### [Iran's Revolutionary Guard Is Radicalizing Young Men Across the Middle East. The U.S. Needs a Counterinsurgency Strategy](https://time.com/5937567/iran-revolutionary-guard-ideology/) The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has an extremist ideology and is growing in influence [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kasra-aarabi/","name":"Kasra Aarabi"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kasra-aarabi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kasra-aarabi/"},"name":"Kasra Aarabi","jobTitle":null,"description":"Kasra Aarabi is a senior analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change who specialises in Iran and Shia Islamist extremism","url":"https://time.com/author/kasra-aarabi/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```