Author Abbas Milani, argues that international sanctions are crippling Iran's economy and that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must be living in a "parallel universe" to speak otherwise. "His sense of reality is very different than everybody else's -- he has this imaginary world," says Milani. "He creates statistics to fit that image."

Author Abbas Milani, argues that international sanctions are crippling Iran's economy and that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must be living in a "parallel universe" to speak otherwise. "His sense of reality is very different than everybody else's -- he has this imaginary world," says Milani. "He creates statistics to fit that image."