Dr. Davood Rahni is a New York resident and Iranian-American scholar and university professor. Attorney and Iranologist Johanna Sturbin interviewed Prof. Rahni for the popular web site Iranian.com on November 21, 2007. With his permission, that interview is printed here in its entirety, in two parts. Part I was posted on Feb. 21, 2008: Prof. Rahni on Iran-US Relations, Part I. This is Part II of the Interview. In this sequence of seven questions, Prof. Rahni discusses how Islam came to Iran and the unique inflection that Iranians give to Islam; the tensions within Islam, and the tensions between Arabs and Iranians; and the legacy of Iran's encounters with Russia, Great Britain, the US, and Israel. Finally, Sturbin asks Prof. Rahni for his perspective on the future of Iranian relations with the US.
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