Brutish and Short: How Iran Learned to Thrive on Conflict
The life of the Islamic Republic until, say, 1990, had been brutish and short. And this is how the head of the nascent body-politic became so heavily invested in an adversarial identity, so dependent on international tension and the perception of a state under siege.
Rod Mamudi, ContributorGraduate, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po P...