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lost face after a disastrous meeting in Geneva in October 2009, when he tentatively agreed to a nuclear-fuel swap, only to see the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, bat the deal down from Tehran. So no matter how well rehearsed, Jalili would need time for his boss to digest what was demanded and offered. In an
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 →K --- rather than later so that the parties can move toward a mutually acceptable conclusion. Washington must also keep in mind that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has the last word on all matters in Iran, and that negotiations will go only as far as he allows them to go. In years past, he issued a fatwa condemn
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Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028651 →AK --- rather than later so that the parties can move toward a mutually acceptable conclusion. Washington must also keep in mind that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has the last word on all matters in Iran, and that negotiations will go only as far as he allows them to go. In years past, he issued a fatwa condemn
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Barack Obama
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Tehran
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George W. Bush
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
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United States
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Lebanon
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Bill Clinton
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Khamenei
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the Persian Gulf
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Donald Trump
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Jerusalem
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Damascus
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Baghdad
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Sudan
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
PERSON
Middle East
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Saddam Hussein
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Jeffrey Epstein
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