Karim Sadjadpour

Iraq pact sets time for U.S. pullout

Iraq's cabinet on Sunday overwhelmingly approved a proposed security agreement that calls for a full withdrawal of American forces from the country by the end of 2011. The cabinet's decision brings a final date for the...

Will America’s Barack Obama talk to Iran?

TEHRAN, Iran - But the differences run so deep - from Iran's nuclear program to Israel's future - that the prospect of a breakthrough or grand bargain is dim, at best. U.S.-led efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program have...

Iran bans news weekly for featuring Obama on front cover

London, Nov 12 (ANI): A smiling photograph of the American President-elect Barack Obama on a Tehran news weekly front cover has resulted in ban of the weekly by Iranian authorities. The closure of the popular reformist weekly...

Friedman: Show me the money

So, I was speaking to an Iranian friend about what a mind-bending thing it must be for people in the Middle East to see Americans, seven years after 9/11, electing someone named Barack Hussein Obama as president. America is...

Friedman: Sleepless in Tehran

I've always been dubious about Barack Obama's offer to negotiate with Iran - not because I didn't believe that it was the right strategy, but because I didn't believe we Americans had enough leverage to succeed. Have you seen...

Bazaar advice

In his column yesterday, Thomas Friedman wrote: Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, compares it to bargaining for a Persian carpet in Tehran. “When you go inside the carpet shop,...

Thomas L. Friedman: Sleepless in Tehran

I've always been dubious about Barack Obama's offer to negotiate with Iran - not because I didn't believe that it was the right strategy, but because I didn't believe we Americans had enough leverage to succeed. Have you seen...