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Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar is an associate professor of international affairs at Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government and Public Service and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in Iranian foreign policy and Middle Eastern politics. He is the author of 'Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran' and an expert on Iran's relations with regional actors and Islamic movements.