Reza Marashi, Research Director

Reza Marashi joined NIAC in 2010 as the organization’s first Research Director.  He came to NIAC after four years in the Office of Iranian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.  Prior to his tenure at the State Department, he was an analyst at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) covering China-Middle East issues, and a Tehran-based private strategic consultant on Iranian political and economic risk. Marashi is frequently consulted by Western governments on Iran-related matters.  His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and The National Interest, among other publications. He has been a guest contributor to CNN, NPR, the BBC, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times, among other broadcast outlets.  Follow Reza on Twitter: @rezamarashi

 

 

Publications

• "Back to the Future in Iran's Election," The National Interest, May 16, 2013
• "Why Sanctions on Iran are not Working," Al Jazeera, May 15, 2013
• "Three Paths toward a Nucler Deal with Iran," The Ploughshares Fund, May 13, 2013
• "Why the Iran Sanctions Don't Work," The National Interest, April 3, 2013
• "'Never Give In and Never Give Up': The Impact of Sanctions on Tehran's Nuclear Calculations," Special Report, March 2013
• "Innocent Iranians Off the Agenda in Almaty," The Huffington Post, March 6, 2013
• "Obama's Moment of Truth on Iran," Foreign Policy, January 22, 2013
• "Step by Step with Iran," The National Interest, January 4, 2013
• "Diplomacy with Iran is a Marathon, Not a Sprint," Alsharq Alawsat, December 2, 2012 (in Arabic)
• "Dealing with Iran," The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Fall 2012 (Issue 7)
• "The Gift and The Curse: Iran and the Arab Spring," chapter in the book The Arab Spring: Change & Resistence in the Middle East. November 2012. Westview Press.
• "Tehran Looks Ready to Tango," Al Jazeera, November 16, 2012
• "How Obama Can Succeed on Iran," The Huffington Post, November 7, 2012
• "Why Tehran Wants a Neocon," The National Interest, October 18, 2012
• "Key Question for the Next U.S. President: Will America Choose War or Peace with Iran?," Global Brief Magazine, October 4, 2012 
• "At the NAM Summit in Tehran, 'It's the Economy, Stupid!'," Huffington Post, August 31, 2012
• "Five Myths about the U.S.-Iran Conflict," The National Interest, August 6, 2012
• "Nuclear Brinkmanship with Iran," The National Interest, July 5, 2012
• "How Iran Can Help Diplomacy Succeed," Huffington Post, June 17, 2012
• "Europe's Unique Opportunity to Act," Huffington Post, June 12, 2012
• "The Iran-Negotiations Marathon," The National Interest, May 30, 2012
• "'Getting to Yes' With Iran Starts at Home," Huffington Post, May 23, 2012
• "For the Sake of Europe, Sarkozy Must Stand Down," Al Jazeera, April 14, 2012
• "Will Khamenei Compromise?," The National Interest, April 11, 2012
• "Money vs. Facts: The Mujahedin-e Khalq is a Terrorist Organization," The Huffington Post, March 15, 2012
• "The Politics of Iran's Parliamentary Elections," The Huffington Post, March 1, 2012
• "Six Questions Reporters Should Ask of Anyone Advocating Military Action Against Iran," Harvard Neiman Foundation, February 24, 2012
• "A Tale of Two Diasporas," Foreign Policy, January 19, 2012
• "The Political Psychology of Obama's Iran Policy," Muftah, January 6, 2012
• "The Iranian-American Game of Chicken," The National Interest, November 14, 2011
• "Khamenei's Power Consolidation Gambit," Al Jazeera, November 11, 2011
• "America's Real Iran Problem," The New York Times, November 10, 2011
• "Does Obama Understand What's Been Unleashed?," Al Jazeera, October 19, 2011
• "The Conservative Rise and the Potential Fall of the Presidency," Tehran Bureau, October 17, 2011
• "The "Come to Jesus" Moment in U.S.-Iran Relations," The Huffington Post, October 12, 2011
• "On Iran, Turn Rhetoric Into Results," The Huffington Post, September 30, 2011
• "Diplomats -- Not Just Journalists -- Should Raise Human Rights With Ahmadinejad," The Huffington Post, September 20, 2011
• "The Iran Sanctions Fallacy," Al Jazeera, August 26, 2011
• "Tehran's Take on the Arab Spring," Asharq Alawsat, July 27, 2011 (in Arabic)
• "Arab Spring Seen From Tehran," The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Issue 2, Summer 2011
• "Iran: The Next Generation," The National Interest, June 29, 2011
• "Why Sanctions Against Iran Won't Work," Salon, June 4, 2011
• "A Hard-Won Victory for American Soft Power," Tehran Bureau, May 26, 2011
• "The Geopolitical Battle for the Arab Street," The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, May 16, 2011
• "Iran's Emerging Cyber War," Muftah, May 3, 2011
• "Subsidy Reform & Regime Resilience in Iran," NIAC Iran Working Paper Series, March 29, 2011
• "A New Opportunity for the U.S. to Promote Human Rights in Iran," The Atlantic, March 17, 2011
• "Iran Raises the Stakes: The Istanbul Talks & Iran's Political Psychology," NIAC Iran Working Paper Series, February 23, 2011
• "The Heavy Costs of War with Iran," The Daily Caller, January 19, 2011
• "WikiLeaks: U.S.-Iran Relations "Now What" Moment?," The Huffington Post, November 30, 2010
• "Want to Defuse the Iran Crisis?," Foreign Policy, November 12, 2010