Part of the Contemporary Iran: Realities and Prospects for the Future Series

Dr. Farzan Sabet is a Researcher in the Middle East WMD-Free Zone Project at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and a Research Associate of the Global Governance Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research focuses on Middle East politics, nuclear arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation, and economic sanctions.

He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Governance Centre of the Graduate Institute Geneva, a Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Sabet holds a Ph.D and M.A. in International History and Politics from the Geneva Graduate Institute and a B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill University. Sabet speaks English, French, and Persian.