Abdolrasool Divsallar

Dr Abdolrasool (Farzam) Divsallar is a Senior Researcher at UNIDIR’s Middle East WMD-Free Zone Project.

He is also a Visiting Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. His research focuses on the intersection of security studies and regional studies. Farzam’s interests include military strategies in the Persian Gulf, Iran’s military and foreign policy, regional security reform, nuclear non-proliferation issues, Russia-Iran relations, and security assistance. He has written and edited eight books, including Struggle for Alliance: Russia and Iran in the Era of War in Ukraine (2024), and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

Before joining UNIDIR, and between 2019-2023, Farzam co-led the Regional Security Initiative at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, was a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, and a Policy Leader Fellow at the EUI School of Transnational Governance. In these roles, he directed combined research and dialogue efforts on rethinking the security architecture in the Persian Gulf region. He received his PhD in Political Science – Iranian Studies from the University of Tehran.

Farzam speaks English, Farsi and Italian.