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are high, however, that the next session will lead to no diplomatic yellow-brick road. Round two could be a success, and lead to a round three, if Khamenei agreed to do five things: (1) Stop all uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity, which is near bomb-grade; (2) ship abroad the entire stockpile of 2
summer, if they choose to, than to entrap them. Americans, too, need to have an honest debate about whether they are willing to permit Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards—the principal state sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East, whom the Obama administration has increasingly nailed for their operational relations
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 →ening. Rather they entrench dictators, build up siege economies and debilitate the urban middle class from which opposition to dictatorship grows. As Khamenei said in a speech a year ago, sanctions were "painful ... but make us more self-reliant". Indeed, for a regime to be sanctioned 1s to receive an elixi
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Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028651 →ening. Rather they entrench dictators, build up siege economies and debilitate the urban middle class from which opposition to dictatorship grows. As Khamenei said in a speech a year ago, sanctions were "painful ... but make us more self-reliant". Indeed, for a regime to be sanctioned is to receive an elixi
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Barack Obama
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Tehran
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Bashar al-Assad
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bill Clinton
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Lebanon
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Damascus
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Baghdad
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Ali Khamenei
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Marc Rich
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Middle East
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Saddam Hussein
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Muammar Gaddafi
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Jerusalem
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North Korea
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