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the patient queueing of Egyptian voters or, perhaps, the self-immolation of Tunisia's Mohammad Bouazizi? Or will it be something less heroic, like Gaddafi hounded like a rat out of his drainage pipe in Libya? Or something profoundly cruel, such as the YouTube video of a Syrian man buried alive by shov
le" are either led by radical Islamists or headed in that direction. The periphery boasts Islamic Iran under the deepening military dictatorship of the Revolutionary Guards, and an AK-controlled Turkey that has jailed fully one-third of the nation's generals and admirals, the historic allies of a strategic partnership
iped out a few scientists and scrambled a few computers. What sanctions have not done is weakened the power of the ayatollahs or their private army, the Revolutionary Guards. Both seem as secure as ever, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018200 --- PAGE BREAK --- while (relatively) moderate civilian politicians are reduced to feuding an
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018200 →year ago, sanctions were "painful ... but make us more self-reliant". Indeed, for a regime to be sanctioned 1s to receive an elixir: witness Castro, Gaddafi, the ayatollahs and the ruling cliques of Burma, Afghanistan and North Korea. That sanctioned regimes sometimes come to an end is not proof that sanc
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018201 →wiped out a few scientists and scrambled a few computers. What sanctions have not done is weakened the power of the ayatollahs or their private army, the Revolutionary Guards. Both seem as secure as ever, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028651 --- PAGE BREAK --- while (relatively) moderate civilian politicians are reduced to feuding and
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028651 →year ago, sanctions were "painful ... but make us more self-reliant". Indeed, for a regime to be sanctioned is to receive an elixir: witness Castro, Gaddafi, the ayatollahs and the ruling cliques of Burma, Afghanistan and North Korea. That sanctioned regimes sometimes come to an end is not proof that sanc
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Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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United States
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Tehran
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Saddam Hussein
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Lebanon
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Damascus
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Marc Rich
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Donald Trump
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Bahrain
LOCATIONMediterranean
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the Persian Gulf
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Jerusalem
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Middle East
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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