"For over four decades, the Western world has been navigating the Islamic Republic of Iran with a persistent misreading of the regime’s nature, motivations, and structural architecture. However, this reading of the regime was not merely wrong by accident.
The regime has built an extensive network of influence within Western academia. Those who appear on television or publish in the media in its defense represent only the tip of the iceberg.
A much larger, and until recently largely hidden, segment consists of numerous professors,
