Karim Sadjadpour is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. He is a contributing writer at the Atlantic and a frequent guest on media outlets such as the PBS NewsHour, NPR, and CNN. He regularly advises senior U.S., European, and Asian officials, has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress, and is an advisor to the Aspen Institute's Congressional Program on the Middle East.
He has written on Iran and the Middle East through the prism of cybersecurity, neuroscience, cinema, satire, and sexuality, including two front cover stories for Time Magazine (international edition). He is currently writing a book on radicalism scheduled to be published by Random House/Knopf. He was previously an analyst with the International Crisis Group, based in Tehran and Washington.
He has lived in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East (including both Iran and the Arab world) and speaks Persian, Italian, Spanish, and proficient Arabic. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, teaching a class on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East.
Iran is rarely out of the news at the moment: from the death of President Raisi (which we covered in our last Conflicted Community episode), to the rumours of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s illness, and with unrest inside the country ever present, it feels like a country at the precipice.
A conversation on what could be next for Iran following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi’s death may accelerate one of two likely outcomes: Iran’s transition to more of a military dictatorship or the regime’s implosion.
A discussion of what the death of Iran’s president and foreign minister means for the United States, how succession will take place in Iran, and more.
While the death of President Raisi is unlikely to destabilize Iran, given that that the presidency is not a powerful institution there, it will likely introduce great uncertainty when it comes to Iran’s political succession.
A conversation on the potential repercussions of the helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
Sima Shine and Karim Sadjadpour join Aaron David Miller to analyze the escalating tensions between Iran and Israel.
In contrast to other modern conflicts — between Israel and Palestine, Russia and Ukraine, China and Taiwan — Iran and Israel have no bilateral land or resource disputes.
The attacks by Iran and Israel on one another’s territory have taken the strategic rivalry between these adversaries into uncharted territory. Will the escalation lead the parties to greater risk-readiness or aversion? What role can outside parties, especially the U.S., play in reducing tensions?
A discussion on thehe dangers that could come to the Middle East and Europe as Israel plans for a possible retaliation after Iran’s weekend attack
