The West cannot understand Iran
Complacent commentators are obscuring the realities of the conflict
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Ali Ansari
Ali Ansari is a professor of history at the University of St Andrews, a Senior Policy Fellow at Policy Exchange and writes on Iran at Iranshahr.
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