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POPSVictorious President Ahmadinejad Showers Obama with Insults
Though going forward the Iranians undoubtedly can expect to find themselves on the receiving end of some stern, carefully parsed lip pro-democracy service. Indeed, the trick will be maintaining clear moral support for Iran’s democrats " plus any other aid that’s useful, including keeping Iranians’ lines of communication open, from Western broadcasts to cellphones to Twitter " in the face of Iranian negotiators’ inevitable complaints. But in skillful hands, negotiations need not strengthen a dying regime. Instead, if the mullahs can be talked into abandoning some of the ideological pillars that have sustained their revolution for three decades, negotiations could undermine their rule in the long run. And that’s not a new challenge for American diplomacy. Twenty years ago, Ronald Reagan sought nuclear arms deals with Moscow even as he denounced the Soviet Union as “an evil empire.” Reagan aimed to undermine Soviet communism, but he also negotiated with its leaders " ----- and he
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