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Amanpour, 52, is best known for her role as CNN's chief international correspondent, having interviewed world leaders ranging from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to former French President Jacques Chirac...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Christiane Amanpour Named Class Day Speaker | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...most certain route to bringing the world down on its head would be for the IRGC to keep building centrifuges and enriching uranium. If nothing else, the hostility of the West that would follow would distract the Iranian opposition. And while an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could perhaps set back the program by five years, it's a small price to pay in order to convince the people on the street that Iran is under an existential threat. One thing that would happen is that opposition demonstrations would come to a quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Sanctions Won't Beat Iran's Revolutionary Guards | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Sanctions Won't Beat Iran's Revolutionary Guards | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

Still, obituaries for the Iranian opposition are premature. "This is a cat-and-mouse game that is going to continue," says Parsi. For all the postgame hand-wringing, many in the opposition say that whatever victory the government achieved on Feb. 11 was hollow. Indeed, in order to stage simple national and religious holiday celebrations, the government has had to mobilize hundreds of thousands of supporters, many from outside the capital, and deploy massive force, which belies its claims that the opposition is just a disaffected élitist minority. "By attacking the people on Ashura, the government lost its religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Opposition Searches for a New Strategy | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

Tapping into the economic grievances of average Iranians may be the next phase of the Green Movement, which has so far been strongest among Iran's urban middle classes. As the regime struggles with a mountain of government debt, unemployment and social subsidies, opposition organizers are sensing an opportunity to expand their base socially and geographically beyond the main cities. On Monday, Feb. 15, the head of the Iranian electricity-workers union said that more than 900,000 of its members are about to lose their jobs and that the country could face an electricity crisis and blackouts because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Opposition Searches for a New Strategy | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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