--- title: Saeid Golkar | TIME description: Saeid Golkar is a Senior Fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. canonical: https://time.com/author/saeid-golkar/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/saeid-golkar/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Saeid Golkar ## Saeid Golkar Saeid Golkar is a Senior Fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. ## Saeid Golkar *  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/saeid-golkar/","name":"Saeid Golkar"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/saeid-golkar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/saeid-golkar/"},"name":"Saeid Golkar","jobTitle":null,"description":"Saeid Golkar is a Senior Fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.","url":"https://time.com/author/saeid-golkar/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```