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Ahmad Majidyar

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Ahmad Khalid Majidyar is a Middle East & South Asia analyst with a focus on Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He was previously a senior fellow and the director of IranObserved Project at the Middle East Institute.

From 2008 to 2015, Majidyar worked as a senior research associate at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he co-authored two monographs on Iran: Iranian Influence in the Levant, Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan (AEI 2012), and The Shi’ites of the Middle East: An Iranian fifth column? (AEI 2014). He also published a number of research papers on Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

As an instructor with the Naval Postgraduate School’s Leadership Development and Education for Sustained Peace program (2008-2016), Majidyar provided graduate-level seminars to more than 3,000 U.S. and NATO military leaders on Afghanistan and the broader region. In addition, he has provided briefings on Iran and Afghanistan at the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Joint IED Defeat Organization, the National Defense University, the State Department, and Congress; and he has spoken as a guest analyst at think tanks, universities, and world affairs councils.

Majidyar’s articles on Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan have been published in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, Fox News, U.S. News & World ReportDaily Telegraph, and Forbes, among others. He has also discussed Middle Eastern topics on the BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera English, Sky News, CBC Canada, Bloomberg News and Voice of America’s Dari, Farsi, Urdu and English services.

Previously, Majidyar worked as a media analyst with the BBC Monitoring in Afghanistan and as a humanitarian aid worker with the UNHCR in Pakistan.

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif: Do Not Pay Much Attention to Trump’s Words
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  • Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif: Do Not Pay Much Attention to Trump’s Words

    The Iranian foreign minister on Wednesday played down latest remarks by President Donald Trump on the possibility of Washington walking away from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the Iranian media reported. “I believe they have broken the spirit of the agreement,” Trump had told the Associated Press. “There is a spirit to agreements, and they have broken it.” Asked by the Iranian press on the sidelines of a cabinet session in Tehran about Trump’s statement, Javad Zarif replied: “Do not pay much attention to Trump’s words.”

    April 26, 2017

    Iran-Backed Iraqi Militia Forces Retake Ancient City of al-Hadar in Western Mosul
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  • Iran-Backed Iraqi Militia Forces Retake Ancient City of al-Hadar in Western Mosul

    The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (P.M.F.) today liberated the historic city of al-Hadar in western Mosul from the Islamic State, the Iranian media reports. Iraqi security forces cooperated with the P.M.F. in al-Hadar offensive.

    April 26, 2017

    Khamenei Asks Presidential Candidates to Pledge Not to Rely on West
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  • Khamenei Asks Presidential Candidates to Pledge Not to Rely on West

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei today called on next month’s presidential candidates to make a pledge not to seek foreign investment to bolster the country’s fragile economy and instead to promote self-sufficiency and domestic production.

    April 25, 2017

    Iranian Student in Rare Video Blasts Regime for Repression at Home and Foreign Wars
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  • Iranian Student in Rare Video Blasts Regime for Repression at Home and Foreign Wars

    A rare video circulating on Iranian social media shows a university student strongly denouncing the Iranian regime’s acts of oppression at home as well as costly military engagements abroad at the expense of domestic priorities. “Mr. Hassan Abbasi: Your theory is the theory of terror and horror and exporting arms and war.

    April 24, 2017

    I.R.G.C. Navy Receives New Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles
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  • I.R.G.C. Navy Receives New Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles

    The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (I.R.G.C.) Navy received the first consignment of the new Nasir anti-ship cruise missile on April 22, the Iranian media reports.

    April 24, 2017

    Iran-Backed Iraqi Mobilization Forces Urge Baghdad to Expel Turkish Ambassador
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  • Iran-Backed Iraqi Mobilization Forces Urge Baghdad to Expel Turkish Ambassador

    The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (P.M.F.) – an alliance of largely Shiite militia groups dominated by Iran – has called on the Baghdad government to expel the Turkish ambassador from Iraq, Fars News Agency reported. The call came after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the P.M.F.

    April 24, 2017

    Tillerson’s Remarks Draw Angry Reaction from Iran’s Foreign Minister
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  • Tillerson’s Remarks Draw Angry Reaction from Iran’s Foreign Minister

    Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Thursday issued a strongly-worded statement in reaction to the latest allegations by the Trump administration about Iran’s destabilizing role in the Middle East and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. “The Islamic Republic of Iran entered the JCPOA (Jointed Comprehensive Plan of Action, or Iran nuclear deal) with the view that it would be prudent way to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives specifically related to the nuclear issue, without entering into other contentious issues, including the nefarious activities of the U.S.

    April 21, 2017

    Iran Unveils New Domestically-Built Military Equipment
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  • Iran Unveils New Domestically-Built Military Equipment

    Iran unveiled a series of domestically-made military equipment on Thursday, during a ceremony on Thursday which was attended by President Hassan Rouhani and Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan.

    April 21, 2017