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Revolutionary Guards Push Back Against Economic Engagement with Outside World

(Wall Street Journal) Gerald F. Seib - Implicit in the nuclear deal with Iran was the hope that economic engagement with the outside world would begin to moderate Iranian behavior. The answer emerging from Iran's security apparatus is that Iranian hard-liners are not only uninterested in deeper economic engagement with the outside world, they may have set out to stop it. Iranian security forces arrested recently an Iranian-American businessman, Siamak Namazi. Iran also has arrested Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese information-technology specialist who lives in Washington. At the same time, Iranian businessmen with ties to foreign firms are being harassed by Iran's state-security apparatus.

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