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Madison Schramm says the debate over Iran so far has focused on air strikes, but the real option the United States should be discussing is...
Author: Akbar Ganji
Prepared by: Brian Morris
November/December 2008
"The Latter-Day Sultan" by Akbar Ganji
Foreign Affairs November/December 2008
Much of Iran's opposition and the Western media blame Iran's ills--corruption, a weak economy, the risk of a U.S. attack--on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But that analysis grossly understates the influence of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and inaccurately suggests that Iran's problems will go away when Ahmadinejad does.
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