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.
Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program, and Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, to discuss how Iran perceives the current landscape and may act as the crisis unfolds.
A conversation about Iran’s strikes on Israel and Israel’s expected response.
A conversation about the missile attack launched by Iran against Israel.
A discussion of the fallout from Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel, what to expect from Israel in response, next moves for the United States and the region, and more.
A discussion on how Iran’s cyber activities aim to exploit internal polarization, following tactics used by Russia in past elections.
A discussion on Israel’s recent assassinations in Iran and Lebanon, the inner workings of the Iranian regime, and America’s four-front Cold War.
A discussion on where hopes for a ceasefire now stand and why some officials have accused Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of making it more difficult to reach a deal.
Karim Sadjadpour joins The Lead
A conversation about whether the new president of Iran will change Iranian policy toward the United States.
The future of Iran, and its relationship with the United States, will be shaped most profoundly not by what happens after the arrival of a new Iranian president, but what happens after the death or departure of Khamenei.