Geneive Abdo was quoted in Bloomberg:
“He [Qalibaf] is a rational player,” said Geneive Abdo, a research fellow at the Washington-based Stimson Center, which was set up in 1989 to promote peace. “The U.S. is more comfortable dealing with technocrats and economists who are much less ideological than presidents such as Ahmadinejad.”
Khamenei “had this terrible experience with Ahmadinejad,” said Abdo at the Stimson Center. “This will be a risk free election. No more Ahmadinejad or similar personality types. There’s too much at stake to take risks.”
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