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October 30, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102803804.html

Time for Sanctions on Iran

[Washington Post] Robert Kagan - The Tehran regime is now desperately trying to buy time so it can regain full control of the country in the face of widespread anger after the fraudulent presidential elections in June and a still-vibrant Iranian opposition. For the clerics, an endless negotiating process is not merely a means of putting off any real concessions on its nuclear program. It is also, and more important, a way of putting off any Western sanctions that could produce new and potentially explosive unrest in their already unstable country. That is the best card in Obama's hand right now. It's time for him to play it. The writer is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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