Economic engagement with the West, combined with firm criticism of his democratic and human-rights abuses at home and abroad, are the best response.
Although the Iranian government deserves firm criticism for incompetence in handling the crisis, poor allocation of scarce foreign currency resources and failing to crack down on corrupt practices, the main culprit are the U.S. and European sanctions that regulate financial transactions with Iran.
Evidence that the International Cricket Council is becoming increasingly irritated by the distraction and expense of the ball-tampering accusations levelled at the Pakistan team mounted yesterday when its chief executive Malcolm Speed issued firm criticism of the way in which the situation at The Oval had been handled by the match referee, Mike Procter.
Mr. Safir, who resigned in August 2000 to work for a private security firm, drew criticism earlier that year.
We're very sensitive to potential conflicts, real and perceived, that could subject both the county and the firm to criticism".
And some people in the chip industry have questioned the propriety of the couple's professional relationship, with Mr. Smith's nonprofit group sending business to Ms. Hawes's firm, a criticism Mr. Smith describes as yet another effort to discredit their work.
Asked whether the firm expected criticism for asking for payment of footage in which a man is depicted being killed, Nissen Gray said she was "not eligible to be quoted".
Mr. Becker, who left the S.E.C. in 2011 and is now a partner at the Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton law firm, faced criticism last year after Mr. Picard's lawsuit was made public, suggesting he might have had a personal financial interest in policies he worked on at the S.E.C. related to how Madoff customers should be compensated.
FedEx's 2004 purchase of Kinko's, the office services firm, drew criticism, and its revenues are flat.
His revelation on CNN that Rapiscan Systems, the manufacturer of those machines, had been a client of his consulting firm sparked criticism that his advocacy was self-serving.
The IG's finding means that the EPA is "finally shutting down an experiment that was based on shoddy science," said Jim Hecker, a lawyer at Public Justice, a public-interest law firm whose criticism dissuaded the EPA from using the shortcut at an abandoned motel in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2004.
