Saeid Golkar is the UC Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He earned his doctorate at the University of Tehran and is the author of Captive Society: The Basij Militia and Social Control in Post-Revolutionary Iran (2015) and Dictators and the Higher Education Dilemma (2026).
The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran has elevated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the regime’s chief coercive tool to the regime itself. Expect an Iran that is more aggressive abroad and more repressive at home.
