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be expected to attempt to seize the moment by trying to create a rift between the rest of the P5+1 and Russia and China. Indeed, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will likely have used his meetings with Putin and senior Chinese officials on the sidelines of this week's Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit
ers into their own hands. Raghuram Rajan is a professor of finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He previously served as the International Monetary Fund's youngest-ever chief economist, and was Chairman of India's Committee on Financial Sector Reforms. He is the author of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fract
mber of the Iranian nuclear negotiating team from 2003 to 2005, Mousavian was later arrested and tried for espionage by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Today, Mousavian is a research scholar at Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security. Everyone recalls that regime change was
e of the restrictive terms. Borrowing from international organizations may not come easy either. For the past six months, Egypt has negotiated with the International Monetary Fund for a $3.2 billion loan without being able to close the deal. Lack of internal political consensus over the loan (a condition set by the IMF) is sa
among them—and undermines important Western foreign-policy interests. This September, New York will be forced once again to host Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will undoubtedly use his speech before the U.N. General Assembly to spew anti- U.S. and anti-Semitic rhetoric. It is time for individual countr
force that the "international community" has been unwilling to take is ostracizing Iran from international organizations, such as the U.N. and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This needs to change. Iran's participation in these organizations undermines their foundational principles. The U.N. Charter provides that
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Barack Obama
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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Bill Clinton
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Lebanon
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Middle East
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Saddam Hussein
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Marc Rich
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Hosni Mubarak
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Cairo
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Hillary Clinton
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Damascus
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Samantha Power
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Bahrain
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Bloomberg L.P.
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