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Superior inferior

From Kenneth M. Pollack's The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict between Iran and America (Random House, 2004). CHAPTER 1 From Persepolis to the Pahlavis To understand

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All but spent

Reprinted from The New York Times Twenty-four years ago today, a 78-year-old ayatollah with fierce eyes named Ruhollah Khomeini landed in an Air France plane

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The twelve rules

From Elaine Sciolino's “Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran” (2000, Free Press). No American reporter has more experience covering Iran or more access to

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