Sina Azodi

Sina Azodi is an assistant professor of Middle East politics and director of the Middle East Studies MA Program at the George Washington University. His research interests include international security, nuclear nonproliferation, Iranian politics, and U.S.-Iranian relations. Azodi is the author of the book Iran and the Bomb: The United States, Iran, and the Nuclear Question. He previously worked as a research assistant at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Azodi is a frequent commentator on both English- and Persian-language media, including CNN, BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, TRT World, and i24. His analysis has appeared in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Arms Control Association, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Foreign Policy and has been quoted by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, and Forbes. Azodi published the chapter “The Fusion of Politics and Religion in Iran” in the edited book Political Islam in the Gulf Region. He earned his BA and MA in international affairs from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University and PhD from the University of South Florida.