Conflicted Community: Karim Sadjadpour Interview Pt.1 – Iran’s Global Strategy

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. So this week, we again look to Persia to
make sense of what Iran’s global strategy actually is. And this
week, in a Conflicted Community first, we welcome a guest onto the
show to help Thomas and Aimen on their way. Karim Sadjadpour is an
Iranian-American who has focused on Iranian foreign policy and the
region’s geopolitics throughout his career. After spending time in
Iran (and evading arrest), he is now a senior fellow at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a contributing
writer at the Atlantic and the New York Times, as well as an
adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign
Service. In our first of two episodes with Karim, we discuss Iran’s
global strategy towards foreign policy, how it intersects with the
new multipolar world, and what they actually get from their axis
with Russia and China. This first part is going out to all
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13th) is exclusively for Conflicted Community subscribers. To
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