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Article: US stumbles on Iran.
- Article from:
- Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2009
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Byline: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Twitter can now revert to the plan to shut down its Iran services and attend to maintenance work. Twitter goes into recess pleased that it probably embarrassed a resurgent regional power. The US government owes Twitter a grand salute for having done something where other stratagems of war and peace failed in the past three decades.
However, Persian stories have long endings. The Iranian regime shows every sign of closing ranks and pulling its act together in the face of what it assessed to be an existential threat to the Vilayat-e-Faqih system. This was to have been expected. Clearly, the leading opposition candidate, Mir ...