Arash Azizi

Arash Azizi is an Iranian historian and journalist, currently a lecturer at Clemson University. He is the author of The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions (2020), a biography of Qasem Soleimani that examines the Quds Force commander's operational career and the strategic logic of Iran's regional expansion. He is also the author of What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom (2023), an account of the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests and the generational shift inside Iran. Azizi is a regular commentator on Iranian politics, the Woman Life Freedom movement, and Iranian diaspora politics, contributing to publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and the New York Times.