Word: sadjadpour
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...project the image of a magnanimous grandfather, selflessly staying above the fray to guide the country in a virtuous direction ... in reality he is notoriously thin-skinned. Criticism of the Leader is one of the few remaining redlines in Iranian politics, almost a guarantee of a prison sentence." - Karim Sadjadpour, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a March 2008 report...
...blame for the poor performance of Iran's economy, as well as its tattered relations with the international community. "There are elements within the IRGC [the acronym for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] that operate like a private mafia and benefit from Iran's isolated status," says Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "That's why they do their very best to torpedo efforts to improve Iran's relations with the West...
...students demonstrated against new dress restrictions. It's hard to see how Ahmadinejad and his supporters will retain control of parliament in next spring's crucial elections. But "the hard-liners would rather rule over a population that fears them than one that likes them," explains my friend Karim Sadjadpour, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...direction we'd all hoped," a French diplomat told TIME, "but all options and possible outcomes remain fully open." U.S. President George W. Bush reacted cautiously, saying "the world is coalescing" against Iran's ambitions, and wouldn't rule out sanctioning military force against the country. Analyst Karim Sadjadpour of the International Crisis Group says that Iranian officials are making good on their rhetoric to continue enrichment activities and "feel confident that with oil at $64 a barrel, the last thing the Europeans want is further sanctions on Iranian...
...Guevara and a quick, painless revolution, replaced by the allure of pyramid schemes and cheap trips to India. Although it's too late to buy the love of Iran's youth, the mullahs seem happy to settle for torpor. "You have a situation," says my friend Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst in Tehran for the International Crisis Group, "where the majority of Iranians have neither the luxury to risk their livelihoods waging political protest nor the nothing-to-lose desperation and rage that result from penury...