Babak Rahimi

Babak Rahimi received a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Dr. Rahimi has also studied at the University of Nottingham and London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace from 2005-2006, where he conducted research on Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Shiite politics in post-Baathist Iraq. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature, Program for the Study of Religion, University of California, San Diego.

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Rivalry between Iran’s Conservative Factions May Be the Biggest Threat to the Strait of Hormuz

01.12.2012 Babak Rahimi

Velayat-e 90, the 11-day Iranian naval exercise that began on December 24, 2011 in the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz, has brought Iran and the...

Publication Terrorism Monitor

Special Commentary: Iranian Reaction to the Great Syrian Revolt

04.22.2011 Babak Rahimi

Executive SummaryIn response to the uprisings spreading throughout the Arab world, Iran has reacted in such a way to maximize its power and potential influence...

Publication Middle East

Special Commentary: Iran and the Bahraini Uprising

03.08.2011 Babak Rahimi

The social upheavals occurring in the Middle East, triggered by the suicide of a fruit vender in Tunisia earlier this year, have been largely precipitated...

Publication Iran

Muqtada al-Sadr and Iran Use “Soft Power” to Pursue Objectives in Iraq

02.04.2011 Babak Rahimi

The return of Muqtada al-Sadr to Iraq after more than three years of self-imposed exile and his unexpected January 21 departure for Iran only two...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Iran

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