Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Triumph -Bret Stephens
A decade ago, it was former president Rafsanjani [pictured above with Ahmandinejad] who personified the Iranian hard line.
He green-lighted terrorist attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina; he refused to revoke the death sentence on novelist Salman Rushdie; a German court fingered him in the assassinations of Iranian-Kurdish dissidents in a Berlin restaurant.
Now Rafsanjani is often spoken of as a "pragmatist" and a "moderate" compared to Ahmadinejad.
(Wall Street Journal)
A decade ago, it was former president Rafsanjani [pictured above with Ahmandinejad] who personified the Iranian hard line.
He green-lighted terrorist attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina; he refused to revoke the death sentence on novelist Salman Rushdie; a German court fingered him in the assassinations of Iranian-Kurdish dissidents in a Berlin restaurant.
Now Rafsanjani is often spoken of as a "pragmatist" and a "moderate" compared to Ahmadinejad.
(Wall Street Journal)
Remember Iran? -Editorial
We don't know if any mix of sanctions and rewards can persuade Iran's leaders to abandon their nuclear program. But without such an effort, we are certain that Tehran will keep pressing ahead, while the voices arguing for military action will only get louder.
(New York Times)
We don't know if any mix of sanctions and rewards can persuade Iran's leaders to abandon their nuclear program. But without such an effort, we are certain that Tehran will keep pressing ahead, while the voices arguing for military action will only get louder.
(New York Times)
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