Thanassis Cambanis, Senior Fellow
Thanassis Cambanis is a journalist specializing in the Middle East and American foreign policy.
Dina Esfandiary, Fellow
Dina Esfandiary is a fellow at The Century Foundation. Her research focuses on Persian Gulf security, Iran’s foreign relations, and relations between states and non-proliferation in the Middle East.
Renad Mansour, Contributor
Renad is an academy fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, where his research focuses on Iraq, Iran, and Kurdish affairs and a lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he teaches a MSc course on the International Relations of the Middle East. He is also a fellow at the Cambridge Security Initiative based at the University of Cambridge, where he previously held positions as lecturer and supervisor at the faculty of politics. Renad has also held research posts at the Carnegie Middle East Center and the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies. He received his PhD from Pembroke College, Cambridge.
TCF World Podcast: Iran in Iraq
As tensions flare between Iran and the United States, TCF takes a look at Iran’s record in Iraq. Some critics of American policy say that Washington “lost Iraq,” and paint Tehran as a master puppeteer controlling every development in the country.
Two scholars of Iran and Iraq examine the situation, and the picture they paint is decidedly more mixed. On this podcast they discuss Iran’s missteps, as well as the ways it has successfully extended its power in the Middle East. Iran might have edged out the United States in Iraq, for now, but it hasn’t established anything close to hegemony.
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Tags: iran, iraq, Podcast, tcf world