Bernard Hourcade is a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris and an international specialist on Iran. He received his doctorate in geography from University of Paris–Sorbonne, and was the director of the French Institute of Iranian Studies (IFRI) in Tehran (1978–1993). Dr. Hourcade is a board member for several scientific and editorial publications, including Iranian Studies (New York), L’Espace géographique (Paris), Iranian Journal of Geopolitics (Tehran), and Geographical Research Quarterly (Mashhad). He publishes widely on Iran and Iranian politics, most recently The rise to power of Iran’s “Guardians of the Revolution” (Middle East Policy Council, 2009), and L’Iran au XXe siècle (Paris, Fayard, 2007).
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