Jun 10 2021
3: Iran: Elections, Nuclear Deal, and Oil
Iranian journalist and scholar, Arash Azizi, joins us for the latest episode of our podcast Commodity Clipp in order to discuss developments in Iran. Azizi is the author of the biography of Iran’s IRGC’s ex-Quds Force Commander, Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in Iraq through an American drone strike in January 2020. Azizi’s book is titled, “The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions.” Aside from his scholarly work at New York University, Arash covers developments in the Middle East and North Africa region for various media outlets.