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Article: Uneasy neighbors, unresolved history Iran and the United States ratchet up disputes at uncomfortably close range
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- June 20, 2003
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The jokes crop up all over town. Since the Americans could arrive any
day, muses the corner grocer, he had better start improving his English.
A demonstrator running from riot policemen wielding riot sticks yells,
''We need the Americans to come here to give us freedom!''A taxi
driver, no friend of the regime, frets that North Korea is too belligerent
about acquiring nuclear weapons and might well prompt the U.S. Army
to skip Tehran and head for Pyongyang. Ever since the 1979 Islamic
revolution, tensions have fluctuated between the United States and