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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
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028652 →hey had hidden 15 kg of the military explosive RDX under bushes on a Mombasa golf course. Created to advance Iran's interests clandestinely overseas, the Quds Force has lately provided mostly embarrassment, stumbling in Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Kenya and most spectacularly in Thailand, where before accidentall
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028659 →omb slapped on his car during his morning commute. By then, Iran was trying to strike back. The task of avenging the scientists fell to the sprawling Quds Force's own covert-operations division, known as Unit 400. It took a shotgun approach, targeting Israeli diplomatic missions in a variety of countries, mostl
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028662 →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
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018201 →ey had hidden 15 kg of the military explosive RDX under bushes on a Mombasa golf course. Created to advance Iran’s interests clandestinely overseas, the Quds Force has lately provided mostly embarrassment, stumbling in Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Kenya and most spectacularly in Thailand, where before accidentall
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018208 →The U.S. is pointing a gun at Iran and wants us to talk to them," he said. "Direct talks will not solve any problems." This isn't the first time Mr. Khamenei has played chaste Daphne to President Obama's infatuated Apollo. Just after becoming President in 2009, Mr. Obama sent the Ayatollah two private lett
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027102 →a compromise on its nuclear programme. Maybe Egypt could help. Both Egypt and Iran have denied a report that General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds force, a division of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the man responsible for Iran's military operations in Syria, visited Cairo in Janua
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027110 →"The U.S. is pointing a gun at Iran and wants us to talk to them," he said. "Direct talks will not solve any problems." This isn't the first time Mr. Khamenei has played chaste Daphne to President Obama's infatuated Apollo. Just after becoming President in 2009, Mr. Obama sent the Ayatollah two private lett
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028728 →e a compromise on its nuclear programme. Maybe Egypt could help. Both Egypt and Iran have denied a report that General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds force, a division of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the man responsible for Iran's military operations in Syria, visited Cairo in Janua
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028736 →Entities connected to both Khamenei and the Quds Force

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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United States
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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George W. Bush
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Lebanon
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Damascus
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Bill Clinton
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Tunisia
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Hosni Mubarak
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Marc Rich
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Baghdad
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Muammar Gaddafi
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Ali Khamenei
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Yemen
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Fatah
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Saddam Hussein
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Ahmadinejad
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