Kevjn Lim is a senior risk advisor for the Middle East and North Africa at IHS Markit, an adjunct research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute, and the author of Power, Perception, and Politics in the Making of Iranian Grand Strategy.
An image grab taken from the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN) on Feb. 4, 2008 shows a large rocket fired from the country's first space center in a desert in northern Semnan province. (AFP/Getty Images)
Iranian reformist Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karroubi, at right, speaks with hardline Judiciary Chief Mahmood Shahroudi in Tehran on Dec. 12, 2002. (Keivan/Getty Images)
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