Author Archive: Navid Hassibi
Navid Hassibi is a Director and Senior Fellow at the Council on International Policy. He tweets @navidhassibi. The opinions expressed here represent his own.
Canada’s Role vs. ISIS

The Council on International Policy’s Navid Hassibi and Wisam Salih recently published a piece in Embassy News and in the Canadian International Council’s opencanada.org about Canada’s role in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Hassan Rouhani: Supreme Leader Khamenei’s Choice for President?

Of course, nobody knows except for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself, but what if he did implicitly support Hassan Rouhani, the lone moderate candidate in Iran’s presidential race, would it be a complete surprise? Perhaps not, it might actually make sense.