Reaching any deal with Iran will be harder than Trump thinks
President Donald Trump keeps promising a “deal” with Iran. But the theological and historical perspective of the Iranian mullahs may make any permanent treaty with Iran unreachable. The Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 was not merely the overthrow of a government. It was a rejection of some 60 years of attempted modernization and westernization, which […]
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President Donald Trump keeps promising a “deal” with Iran. But the theological and historical perspective of the Iranian mullahs may make any permanent treaty with Iran unreachable. The Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 was not merely the overthrow of a government. It was a rejection of some 60 years of attempted modernization and westernization, which had the effect of weakening the authority of Iran’s traditional Shia religious leaders. Recommended Stories There’s only one way out of Congress’s FISA quagmire Why Iran’s non-Persian nationalities matter for US strategy The anxiety behind Xi Jinping’s Pyongyang visit When Ruhollah Khomeini seized power, he did not just overthrow a monarchy.
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