TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Reza Pahlavi is Negative . Reza Pahlavi  concentrates intently on the little cellphone in  his  hand  scrolling through clips of chanting Iranians and explaining why the protests unsettling  his  homeland are different this time. Even as the latest reports suggest the unrest may be ebbing  the scion of Persia's 2 500-year-old monarchy believes Iran's people are writing a new future for themselves  and perhaps for their exiled son.
More than want   he  believes they may succeed.
Iranian officials say they've arrested some 3 700 people since Dec. 28. Some protesters have called for the government's overthrow  and videos show some vocal support for Pahlavi  who left Iran at 17 for military flight school in the United States just before  his cancer-stricken father Mohammad Reza Pahlavi  abandoned the throne for exile. Revolution meant neither  Pahlavi  ever returned.
 Pahlavi  is staying abreast of developments in Iran through what  his  aides describe as a vast network of contacts  inside and outside of the government   he  has maintained for decades. An equally important source: normal Iranians reaching out to  him  directly via social media.
But  Pahlavi  may not be the credible voice for change in a country that  he  hasn't seen in 38 years. Iranian officials accuse  him  of exploiting the instability to advance  his  personal aspirations for power in a part of the world replete with cautionary tales about long-estranged exiles believing they know what's best for their homelands. And Pahlavi's father was hardly a paragon of democracy  ruling lavishly and repressively  and benefiting from a CIA-supported 1953 coup of Iran's prime minster.
While many of the young faces in today's crowds of protesters couldn't conceivably have been born when the last shah still ruled   Pahlavi  believes the support  he  is seeing in text messages and Telegram files is genuine.
"It is not a matter of coincidence or  if you will  nostalgia " said  Pahlavi   57  insisting that a young  scrutinizing Iranian generation is expressing "rapport" with  his  message of inclusion  and rejecting the Islamic Republic's "brainwashing" and exclusion.
 He  outlined a vision of how to achieve democratic change: Intensifying "the struggle" until Iran's government implodes; initiating a transition process; holding popular elections for a constitutional assembly; enshrining secularism and democracy; free and fair voting for a first parliament and government.
But these are broad ideas that would each entail incredibly difficult processes. For example   Pahlavi  said that whatever form Iran's future government takes  it should offer amnesty to military and paramilitary forces such as those in the Revolutionary Guard Corps so they abandon the camp of Khamenei and other hardliners. Such a promise wouldn't resolve their massive stakes in Iran's economy  a source of significant popular disgruntlement.
And what of  Pahlavi 's path in this new Iran? Does it end with him sitting upon the Peacock Throne? Or does he aspire for something akin to the "Baba" role played by Mohammed Zahir Shah  Afghanistan's deposed king who returned after the fall of the Taliban as a symbolic but powerless figure of national unity?
"I don't know  to be honest with you. I know what I need to do now "  Pahlavi  answered. "I've never been preoccupied with my personal role or destiny " he said  describing fair elections in Iran as his "only mission in life " replacing the current votes for presidents and parliamentarians among pre-approved candidates.
"Of course  I stand ready to serve my country  " Pahlavi  said  noncommittally. "I have no idea in what capacity it may or may not be. I may end up just being a regular citizen living the rest of my days  or I may be called upon to play a bigger role."

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rand Paul is Positive . The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan spending bill Friday morning  but not before the federal government shut down when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delayed the vote past midnight to complain about the budget deficit. It was the second government shutdown in less than three weeks.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Feb. 8 spoke on the Senate floor against a bipartisan budget deal and delayed a vote on the measure. (U.S. Senate)
Then  as an expected vote approached in the Senate   Paul  began to throw up roadblocks  demanding a vote on  his  amendment that would demonstrate how the two-year budget deal breaks past pledges to rein in federal spending.
GOP leaders refused to allow  him  to offer the amendment  arguing that if  Paul  got an amendment vote  many other senators might want one  too.  Paul   in turn  refused to allow the vote to go forward  making use of Senate rules that allow individual senators to slow down proceedings that require the consent of all.
“I can’t in all good honesty  in all good faith  just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits ”  Paul  said on the Senate floor as evening pushed into night.
 Paul  objected after a visibly irritated McConnell tried to move to a vote. Then  Paul  launched into a lengthy floor speech deriding bipartisan complicity on deficit spending while the country goes “on and on and on  finding new wars to fight that make no sense.” The senator direly predicted a “day of reckoning ” possibly in the form of the collapse of the stock market.
As the hours ticked on   Paul  repeatedly refused to consent to allowing the vote to happen  as lawmakers and aides of both parties grew increasingly annoyed at  him . Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.)  leaving the floor after an unsuccessful attempt to curtail  Paul ’s standoff  called the gambit “grossly irresponsible” and said that leaders would not entertain  his  demand for a vote.
Senators of both parties were left fuming  with most of their ire directed toward  Paul .
“ He  has mastered the art of ticking off  his  colleagues ” said Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.).
“It’s a colossal waste of everybody’s time ” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). Of  Paul   Thune said  “He never gets a result.”
 Paul himself  made no apologies as  he  delivered one floor speech after another  casting  himself  as a lone defender of fiscal austerity  despite having voted in December for a tax bill that added at least $1 trillion to the debt.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Wayne R. LaPierre is Neutral . Contrast that with the God invoked by  Wayne R. LaPierre   CEO of the National Rifle Association  at CPAC.
âThere is no greater personal  individual freedom than the right to keep and bear arms  the right to protect yourself  and the right to survive â  LaPierre  said. âItâs not bestowed by man but granted by God to all Americans as our American birthright.â
Trump and  LaPierre  played to the fears. And even as  LaPierre  calls on God  he seems to put more faith in guns.
 LaPierre  reminded the audience of  his  solution to stop school shootings â arming teachers. Or  as  he  likes to say: âTo stop a bad guy with a gun  it takes a good guy with a gun.â
âI said five years ago  after that horrible tragedy in Newtown  and I wish . . . â  LaPierre  paused. âOh  God â  he  started up again  âI wish more had heeded my words.â

SOLUTION:
yes