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"heroic flexibility." And while the outcome of the election was greeted with joyous celebrations in the streets, Rouhani has powerful enemies, the Revolutionary Guard among them, who have made no secret of their hope that he will fail. He has to deliver results reasonably soon, or he will be ousted. His first st
nd the destruction of an Iranian civilian airliner and its passengers in 1988. Iranians called the US the Great Satan. The US named Iran as part of the Axis of Evil. For most of these decades, even a EFTA00651266 handshake between officials was taboo and an Iranian who advocated improving the relationship cou
"heroic flexibility." And while the outcome of the election was greeted with joyous celebrations in the streets, Rouhani has powerful enemies, the Revolutionary Guard among them, who EFTA_R1_02206869 EFTA02722173 have made no secret of their hope that he will fail. He has to deliver results reasonably soon, or
d the destruction of an Iranian civilian airliner and its passengers in 1988. Iranians called the US the Great Satan. The US named Iran as part of the Axis of Evil. For most of these decades, even a handshake between officials was taboo and an Iranian who advocated improving the relationship could find himself
rder who was given leeway by the regime's powers that be. He couldn't defy the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or run afoul of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The case is now being made that Rohani is no freelancer, that he is a player of standing in the regime, and that the olive branch he carries with
ere is no time like the present for a reformist to meet and greet the Great Satan. Likewise, a face-to-face meeting with a card-carrying member of the Axis of Evil could be a Nixonian moment for President Barack Obama. Groundbreaking political discourse and a thawing of relations might be the first step toward
Entities connected to both Revolutionary Guard and the Axis of Evil

Barack Obama
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Department of Justice
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Lebanon
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Middle East
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Joe Biden
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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Prince Andrew
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Prince Charles
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Belgium
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Damascus
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Capitol Hill
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Cairo
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Eric Trump
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Marc Rich
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Tunisia
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