Patrick Clawson is Morningstar senior fellow and director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Policy Analysis on Iran
Supported by the
Viterbi Program on Iran and U.S. Policy
Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran poses the most serious and urgent set of security challenges to the United States and its allies in the greater Middle East. Since the Khomeini revolution in 1979, Iran has sought to export its radical ideology through the use of terrorism, subversion, and support to ideological fellow-travelers throughout the Muslim world.
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