As the Trump Administration threatens to impose sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards — and as the Islamic Republic promises to respond — I spoke with Monocle 24’s The Globalist on Tuesday morning about the nature of the military organization and their political and economic influence in the Iranian system.
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Scott Lucas
Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.