İsmail Sarı graduated from the Department of History at Istanbul University in 2001 and received his master's degree in History and International Relations from the same university in 2003-2005. Receiving the best doctoral dissertation award in 2016, Sari served as a post-doctoral researcher at Columbia University between 2018 and 2019 and as a visiting professor at the Missouri State University during his studies in the United States. Sarı's research focus concerns Iranian foreign policy, the contemporary Shiite secularization process, the intellectual roots of the regime and opposition in Iran, and contemporary Iranian and US politics. Sari is currently working as a lecturer at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University.
Demonstrations that started in Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was taken to the hospital after being taken into custody by the Gasht-e-Ershad on the grounds that she “did not comply with the headscarf rules” and died on September 16, once again brought Iran to the forefront of the international community’s agenda. The protests that started with the demands for women’s rights in Iran turned into ethnopolitical actions in the Kurdish
In the first months of the civil war in Syria, while the regime forces were withdrawing rapidly against the opposition, Iran, which has called Lebanese Hezbollah to Syria to support the regime since 2012, including groups such as the Fatemiyoun and Zainebiyoun brigades into the war, and approximately 150,000 to 200,000 Shiites. This changed the course of the war in favor of regime forces, along with other factors. In addition,
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Demonstrations that started in Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was taken to the hospital after being taken into custody by the Gasht-e-Ershad on the grounds that she “did not comply with the
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In the first months of the civil war in Syria, while the regime forces were withdrawing rapidly against the opposition, Iran, which has called Lebanese Hezbollah to Syria to support the regime
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi came together as part of the Astana format in Tehran, the capital of Iran, in a meeting held
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 21 that he had approved the decision to recognize the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk republics in eastern Ukraine. Subsequently, he deployed Russian troops to these
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While nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran, which have taken longer than expected, have not yet reached a conclusion, some sources close to Tehran highlighted that one of the reasons for
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In a statement by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on October 3, it was confirmed that the most recent talks with Iran were held on September 21. The talks between
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry stated last week, “We are continuing our negotiations with Riyadh in a positive atmosphere.” The Financial Times reported last month that Iranian and Saudi officials met in Baghdad in
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