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Iran’s Ayatollah On Nuclear Deal

Posted April 10th, 2015 at 10:05 am (UTC-4)
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Just a week after the announcement of the framework nuclear deal between Iran and the United States and the other P+5 countries, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave the world his view of the historic agreement.  American columnists and top media editors responded swiftly.

The Revolution Lives!

David Brooks – The New York Times

Beyond all the talk of centrifuges and enrichment capacities, President Obama’s deal with Iran is really a giant gamble on the nature of the Iranian regime. The core question is: Are the men who control that country more like Lenin or are they more like Gorbachev? Do they still fervently believe in their revolution and would they use their postsanctions wealth to export it and destabilize their region? Or have they lost faith in their revolution? Will they use a deal as a way to rejoin the community of nations?

We got a big piece of evidence on those questions on Thursday. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered his first big response to the sort-of-agreed-upon nuclear framework. What did we learn?

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