Iran

Iran

Psychological Profile of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

June 2009

Research report

Immelman, A. (2009, June). The personality profile of Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Unpublished research report). Collegeville and St. Joseph, MN: St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict, Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics. Retrieved from Digital Commons website: http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_pubs/106/

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The Shadow Commander

Profile of Qassem Suleimani, the Iranian spymaster and military leader, by Dexter Filkins, published in The New Yorker, September 23, 2013.

Qassim Suleimani built a Shiite axis of power in the Mideast

Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani in 2016. He led the powerful Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani. (Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP / NYT)

The commander helped direct wars in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, and he became the face of Iran’s efforts to build a regional bloc of Shiite power. (Tim Arango, Ronen Bergman, and Ben Hubbard, New York Times, Jan. 4, 2020)