Shaul Bakhash

Professor of Middle East History, George Mason University

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Professor of Middle East History at George Mason University and author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution; husband of Haleh Esfandiari, an American citizen and the director of the Middle Eastern program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars who was recently imprisoned in Iran

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After nearly three decades of formal silence,
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need for a stable Iraq.    There were many
issues…

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