Meir Javedanfar

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rdf:langString Meir Javedanfar was born in Tehran to a family from the city of Isfahan. He studied at the Ettefegh and Abrishami Jewish day schools in Tehran. He also studied for one year at the Shahid Mohammad Baqir Sadr Muslim day school, situated in his neighborhood of Gisha. Eight months after his bar mitzvah in Tehran, in March 1987, Meir and his family moved to the U.K as Jewish refugees from Iran. Between 1992 and 1995 he studied Business and Management studies B.Sc. at Salford University. 1995-1996 Meir studied the MA International Relations and Strategic Studies course at Lancaster University. His MA thesis was entitled “Israeli Motivations for Military Intervention in Lebanon: 1982 to Date (1996).” His thesis conclusion recommended Israel to withdraw from Lebanon to bolster its own security and to reduce tensions with its northern neighbor. Incidentally, this happened four years later in May 2000 when Israel withdrew all its military forces which were occupying southern Lebanon. 1997-1998 Meir studied the MSc Manufacturing and Management Information Systems course at the University of West of England. His MSc thesis was based on the analysis of the Information Technology systems of the Czech civilian aircraft manufacturer Let Kunovice. Consequently, Meir lived for 3 months in the Czech city of Uherské Hradiště, in the Czeck region of Southern Moravia. In May 2022 Meir completed his PhD at Haifa University. His thesis was entitled: “Serving Regime or National Interests? Security Decision-Making in Iran during the Reign of Muhammad Riza Shah Pahlavi Concerning Threats Posed by Iraq and the Soviet Union, 1941-1979.”