Senior Research Analyst and Program Manager for Special Research Projects
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Laura Grossman is Senior Research Analyst and Program Manager for Special Research Projects at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. She received her bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a MS in Global Affairs from New York University.
As the United States and its allies have tightened sanctions on Iran, they have sought in particular to isolate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime’s most aggressive institution. The IRGC, known in Persian as the Pasdaran, fields its own army, navy, and air force, and dominate a large and increasing share of Iran’s national economy.
