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2026-03-19

(Vali Nasr) 이스라엘이 이뤄낸 것은 본질적으로 이란 혁명수비대(IRGC)의 세대교체,

 

이란계 미국인 학자이자 정치학자인 발리 나스르(Vali Nasr)

 (Vali Nasr) 이스라엘이 이뤄낸 것은 본질적으로 이란 혁명수비대(IRGC)의 세대교체,

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“This war has hardened Iran, which is exactly the opposite of what President Trump imagined.”

Iranian American political scientist Vali Nasr says that whenever foreign powers take out a country’s leader, it only serves to radicalise the next generation of militants.

Since the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran knows it is facing an existential threat.

“That’s not the point at which you’re going to get more moderate forces coming to the front,” says Nasr.

“It’s the ones that are willing to fight and die to save the country that become the prominent voices.”

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이란계 미국인 학자이자 정치학자인 발리 나스르(Vali Nasr)

 (Vali Nasr) 이스라엘이 이뤄낸 것은 본질적으로 이란 혁명수비대(IRGC)의 세대교체

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[이스라엘이 이뤄낸 것은 본질적으로 이란 혁명수비대(IRGC)의 세대교체, 그리고 이제 이란 최고위층의 변화입니다. 트럼프의 생각과는 달리, 그 수뇌부 제거는 시리아 지도자 아흐마드 알 샤라와 같은 인물을 이란에 등장시켰습니다. 넥타이를 매고 트럼프와 악수할 의향이 있는 인물 말이죠.

하지만 정반대의 현상이 일어나고 있습니다. 미국과의 전쟁에 훨씬 더 적극적으로 나서는 군 지휘관들이 생겨나고 있습니다. 이들은 시리아와 이라크 전쟁에서 미국과 정면으로 맞섰던 경험이 있는 지휘관들이며, 당연히 시리아와 이라크에서 했던 방식을 미국과의 전쟁에서 그대로 재현하려는 경향이 강합니다. 따라서 IRGC는 수뇌부 제거로 인해 온건해진 것이 아니라, 오히려 훨씬 더 위험을 감수하는, 어쩌면 더 급진적인 조직으로 변모하고 있습니다. 수뇌부 제거는 항상 군사 조직을 더 위험하게 만듭니다. 새로 등장한 세대는 자신을 증명하기 위해 더욱 공격적인 행보를 보이기 때문입니다. 그 반대의 경우는 없습니다.

결국 전쟁은 정권을 형성합니다. 이란인들이 보기에 이번 전쟁은 미국과 벌이고 싶은 마지막 전쟁입니다. 이제 이 전쟁은 이란의 생존을 위한 전쟁으로 변모하고 있습니다. 더 이상 정권의 존립 문제가 아닙니다. 미국과 이스라엘이 이란의 역사적 유산인 이스라엘과 테헤란을 폭격하고, 트럼프 대통령이 이란의 국경이 불확실하며 전쟁이 끝나면 바뀔 수도 있다고 말하고, 분리주의 세력을 무장시켜 이란으로부터 분리 독립을 시도하게 하겠다고 발언했을 때,

이는 이란에게 있어 존립의 위기가 되었습니다. 이런 상황에서 온건파나 실용적인 세력이 나서기보다는, 나라를 지키기 위해 싸우고 죽을 각오가 되어 있는 세력이 더욱 두각을 나타내게 될 것입니다. 따라서 현재로서는 이 전쟁이 이란을 더욱 강경하게 만들었는데, 이는 트럼프 대통령이 전쟁을 통해 이란이 누그러질 것이라고 생각했던 것과는 정반대입니다. 오히려 정반대의 효과를 가져왔습니다.]

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[What Israel has achieved essentially is a generational change in IRGC, and now at the top of the Iranian system,  And contrary to what Trump thinks, that decapitation brings sort of an Iranian version of Ahmad al Shara, the Syrian leader, somebody who's willing to put a tie on and come and shake his hands. 

It's the opposite is happening. You're getting military commanders that are much more willing to take the fight to the United States. These are commanders now that came out of the wars in Syria and Iraq, where they were confronting the United States frontally, and they are obviously are much more willing to replicate what they did in Syria and Iraq, not a broader basis with the U.S. So, IRGC has not become more moderate as a consequence of the decapitation, is actually becoming a much more risk taking, and, and, and in a way, perhaps more radical institution, decapitations, and always makes military organisations more dangerous, because the new generation that comes up actually escalates to prove itself. It doesn't go the other direction. 

And ultimately, wars shape, shape regimes. And this war, the way the Iranians see it, this is the last war they want to fight with the U.S. And now this is turning into a war of survival of Iran. It's not about the regime anymore. So when the United States and Israel bombard, Iran's historical heritage. In Israhan, in Tehran, when President Trump says that the borders of Iran are in question, and they may change at the end of this war, and I'm going to arm separatists to break away from Iran. 

This becomes then an existential moment for the country. And that's not the point at which you're going to get more moderate forces coming to the front, or pragmatic forces coming to the front. It is the ones that are willing to fight and die and and, uh, wage a battle to save the country. that are going to become the more prominent voices. So for now, uh, this war has hardened Iran, which is exactly the opposite of what President Trump imagined that somehow the war would soften Iran. It actually has had the opposite effect.]

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2026-03-16

Vali Nasr - Wikipedia

Vali Nasr - Wikipedia

Vali Nasr

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vali Nasr
ولی‌ نصر
8th Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
In office
1 July 2012 – 14 June 2019
Preceded byJessica Einhorn
Succeeded byEliot A. Cohen
Personal details
BornSeyyed Vali Reza Nasr
20 December 1960 (age 65)
Children3
ParentSeyyed Hossein Nasr (father)
EducationTufts University (B.A. and M.A.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
AwardsEllis Island Medal of Honor

Vali Reza Nasr (Persian: ولی‌ رضا نصر, born 20 December 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and political scientist, specializing in Middle Eastern studies and the history of Islam. He is Majid Khaddouri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. He served as the eighth dean of the school from 2012 to 2019. Nasr is also a non-resident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies,[1] and has been described by The Economist as "a leading world authority on Shia Islam".[2]

Biography

Vali Nasr, son of the Iranian academic, philosopher, and scholar of religion Seyyed Hossein Nasr, was born in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran in 1960. He went to school in England at age 16, and immigrated to the United States after the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979). He received his B.A. degree from Tufts University in international relations summa cum laude. He earned his M.A. degree in international economics and Middle Eastern studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1984, then went on to earn his doctorate in political science from the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences in 1991.[3]

Career

He taught at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, University of San Diego, and the Naval Postgraduate School, and was a senior fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University, as well as Stanford University and University of California, San Diego prior to being appointed dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in March 2012.[4]

Nasr was a member of the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board and served as senior advisor to the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, between 2009 and 2011.[5] He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[6]

Publications

Nasr is a political scientist by training and has focused on comparative politics and international relations of the Middle East. He is the author of several monographs on the study of Middle Eastern politics and societies, including The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama`at-i Islami of Pakistan (1994), Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism (1997), The Islamic Leviathan (2001), Democracy in Iran (written with Ali Gheissari, 2006), The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future (2006), Meccanomics: The March of the New Muslim Middle Class (2010), Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It will Mean for Our World (2010), and The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat (2013).

Nasr's writing has addressed politics and Islamic activism in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and throughout the Arab world. He has highlighted the role of states in the process of Islamization throughout the history of the Middle East and the importance of sectarian identity in Middle-Eastern politics, including the growing importance of Shīʿa Islam and its relation to the politics of Iran and other Middle-Eastern countries following the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1978–1979) and the Iraq War (2003–2011). His book Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It will Mean for Our World (2010) focused on the importance of a new middle class for the future of the Muslim world.[7] He appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on 1 August 2006,[8] 22 September 2009,[9] and 25 April 2013.[10] Due to the accuracy of his political predictions Nasr has been hailed as a "shrewd forecaster."[11]

Personal life

Nasr is the son of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a prominent Iranian academic, philosopher, and scholar of religion. He is married to a technology executive. They have two sons and one daughter.[12]

See also

Publications

  • Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History (Princeton University Press, 20 May 2025)[13]
  • Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat (Doubleday, 2013)
  • Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It will Mean for Our World (Free Press, 2009), also published under the titles The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Middle Class is Key to Defeating Extremism and Meccanomics: The March of the New Muslim Middle Class in the U.K.
  • The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton & Company, 2006)
  • Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (coauthor, Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • The Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Oxford University Press, 2001)
  • Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism (Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama`at-i Islami of Pakistan (University of California Press, 1994)[7]
  • Oxford Dictionary of Islam (editor, Oxford University Press, 2003)
  • Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History (coeditor, State University of New York Press, 1989)
  • The Arab Moment Has Passed from Foreign Policy
  • The Impact of the Pandemic on Geopolitical in the MENA Region from in Navigating the Pandemic: The Challenge of Stability and Prosperity in the Mediterranean MED
  • A Nuclear Deal Won’t Secure the Middle East, But Regional Cooperation Could, and Washington Should Support It from Foreign Affairs
  • Iran Among the Ruins: Tehran’s Advantage in a Turbulent Middle East from Foreign Affairs
  • Business, Not As Usual from Finance and Development
  • When Shiites Rise from Foreign Affairs
  • "The Cost of Containing Iran" (coauthored with Ray Takeyh) from Foreign Affairs
  • "Who Wins in Iraq? Iran" from Foreign Policy
  • "The Rise of Muslim Democracy" from Journal of Democracy
  • "The Conservative Consolidation in Iran" from Survival
  • "The Regional Implications of Shi'a Revival in Iraq" from The Washington Quarterly
  • "Iran’s Peculiar Election: The Conservative Wave Rolls On" from Journal of Democracy
  • "The Democracy Debate in Iran" (coauthor) from Middle East Policy Journal
  • "Military Rule, Islamism, and Democracy in Pakistan" from The Middle East Journal
  • "Lessons from the Muslim World" from Dædalus

References

  1.  "Vali Nasr - CSIS". csis.org. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  2.  "Shias, Catholics and Protestants". The Economist. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  3.  "Vali Nasr — Professor of International Politics, Tufts University — Big Think". bigthink.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2009.
  4.  "Vali Nasr named dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS: Gazette Archives". gazette.jhu.edu. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  5.  Hillary Clinton, Hard Choices, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014, p. 155
  6.  "The Johns Hopkins University - Vali Nasr". Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  7.  Totten, Michael J. (22 January 2010). "The Shopping Cure (Published 2010)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  8.  "Comedy Central Official Site - TV Show Full Episodes & Funny Video Clips". Comedy Central. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  9.  "Comedy Central Official Site - TV Show Full Episodes & Funny Video Clips". Comedy Central. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  10.  "Comedy Central Official Site - TV Show Full Episodes & Funny Video Clips". Comedy Central. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  11.  http://www.thewhig.com/2016/01/15/sunnis-shias-enemies-forever Kingston Whig-Standard
  12.  "Vali Nasr Named Dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS | Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies - SAIS". www.sais-jhu.edu. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015.
  13.  Nasr, Wali (20 May 2025). "Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History". Google Books. Princeton University Press.