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hanged," said the diplomat, who asked not to be named. "There will be fewer and fewer countries listening to the United States." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has talked in apocalyptic terms about the Arab uprisings. He said in Tehran last week, "changes will be forthcoming and will engulf the whole world

there was now the cult of the rulers, the unbounded power of Saddam Hussein and Muammar el-Qaddafi and Hafez al-Assad in Syria and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia. The traditional restraints on power had been swept away, and no new social contract between ruler and ruled had emerged. Fear was now

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m, typically used to refer to the Supreme Leader] basically decided that we would not have negotiations with America." He also portrayed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as ignorant and naive about the nuclear issue, and implied that Iran had missed opportunities to resolve the nuclear crisis with Washington and it

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hanged," said the diplomat, who asked not to be named. "There will be fewer and fewer countries listening to the United States." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has talked in apocalyptic terms about the Arab uprisings. He said in Tehran last week, "changes will be forthcoming and will engulf the whole world

there was now the cult of the rulers, the unbounded power of Saddam Hussein and Muammar el-Qaddafi and Hafez al-Assad in Syria and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia. The traditional restraints on power had been swept away, and no new social contract between ruler and ruled had emerged. Fear was now

gether. To be sure, Egypt's Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali neither ran police states on the terrifying scale

ith your silence." The words of a wise man. Meir Javedanfar is an Iranian-Israeli Middle East analyst and co- author of The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032185 --- PAGE BREAK --- 16 Article 5. The Financial Time Global oil supplies are healthier than they seem