Publications

Monographs and Volumes

Sabet, Farzan. Narratives of the Middle East WMD-Free Zone: Drivers, Themes, and Historical Accounts. Geneva, Switzerland: UNIDIR, 2023.

Zak, Chen, and Farzan Sabet. [eds] 2021. From the Iran nuclear deal to a Middle East Zone? Lessons from the JCPOA for the ME WMDFZ. Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone Series 3, Geneva: UNIDIR.


Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Sabet, Farzan. “Sleeping beside the Elephant: The United States in Canada’s Middle East Policy.” In Middle Power in the Middle East: Canada’s Foreign and Defence Policies in a Changing Region, edited by Thomas Juneau and Bessma Momani, University of Toronto Press, 14-30. 2022.

Zach, Chen, and Farzan Sabet. “Introduction.” In From the Iran nuclear deal to a Middle East Zone? Lessons from the JCPOA for the ME WMDFZ, edited by Chen Zak and Farzan Sabet, Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone Series 3, Geneva: UNIDIR, 1-9. 2021.

Mallard, Gregoire, and Farzan Sabet. “Compliance and Enforcement.” In From the Iran nuclear deal to a Middle East Zone? Lessons from the JCPOA for the ME WMDFZ, edited by Chen Zak and Farzan Sabet, Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone Series 3, Geneva: UNIDIR, 69-83. 2021.

Mallard, Grégoire, Farzan Sabet, and Jin Sun. “The Humanitarian Gap in the Global Sanctions Regime.” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 26:1, 121–153. 2020.

Sabet, Farzan, and Roozbeh Safshekan. “The Revolutionary Guard in Iranian Domestic and Foreign Power Politics.” In Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East, edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Routledge, 96-109. 2019.

Sabet, Farzan. “The April 1977 Persepolis Conference on the Transfer of Nuclear Technology: A Third World Revolt Against US Nonproliferation Policy?” The International History Review, 40:5, 1-18. 2018.

Sabet, Farzan. “Iran: Resolving the Nuclear Crisis.” Journal of Public International Affairs: 74–92. 2013.

Safshekan, Roozbeh, and Farzan Sabet. “Discoloured Revolution: The Iranian Green Movement, Coloured Revolutions and Factional Politics in Iran.” McGill Journal of Middle East Studies XII: 2–29. 2011.

Safshekan, Roozbeh, and Farzan Sabet. “The Ayatollah’s Praetorians: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the 2009 Election Crisis.” The Middle East Journal 64.4: 543–58. 2010.


Reports and Papers

Safshekan, Roozbeh, and Farzan Sabet. “The Source of Legitimacy in the Guardianship of the Jurist: Historical Genealogy Political Implications.” POMEPS Studies 28, New Analysis of Shia Politics. Dec. 2017.

Sabet, Farzan. “The Nuclear Renaissance and Nonproliferation Regime in 2017.” 2016-2017 Graduate Research Awards for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Ottawa: The Simons Foundation and International Security Research and Outreach Programme of Global Affairs Canada. 2017.

Sabet, Farzan. “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Political Elite On Syria: Understanding What They Think Through Iranian Media Narratives.” Philadelphia: Iran Media Program, Center for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 2013.

Sabet, Farzan, and Roozbeh Safshekan. “Soft War: A New Episode in the Old Conflict between Iran and the United States.” Philadelphia: Iran Media Program, Center for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 2013.


Book Reviews

Sabet, Farzan, “Can Iran’s State Media Warriors Reframe the Islamic Republic for a New Generation?”, review of Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic, by Narges Bajoghli, Texas National Security Review, September 08, 2020.


Manuscripts in Preparation 

“The Other Iran Deal: Failure of the U.S.-Iran Nuclear Cooperation Agreement of 1978.” (Manuscript in Preparation).