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<title><![CDATA[Karim Sadjadpour - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23064.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Karim Sadjadpour]]></description><category domain="23064">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Death of Khamenei and the End of an Era]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/EQvEN</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Karim Sadjadpour</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His life'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s work was to preserve a revolution that is heading for the ash heap.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Autumn of the Ayatollahs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/autumn-ayatollahs</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karim Sadjadpour</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first time in nearly four decades, Iran is on the cusp of a change of leadership'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and maybe even of regime. As Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's reign nears its end, a 12-day war in June laid bare the fragility of the system he built. Israel battered Iranian cities and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Islamic Republic Is Losing Its Grip]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/06/david-frum-show-iran-israel-karim-sadjadpour/683220/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karim Sadjadpour</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Karim Sadjadpour on how the Islamic Republic is losing its grip, and what might come next]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise and Fall of Ahmadinejad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-rise-and-fall-of-irans-ahmadinejad/2011/07/08/gIQACK4ADI_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karim Sadjadpour</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s demagoguery and Holocaust revisionism on the world stage have earned him alarmist comparisons to Adolf Hitler, his recent, ignoble fall from grace reveals the Iranian president for what he really is: the dispensable sword of Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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