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Source: http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/09/bad-iran-deal-worse-than-no-deal/
Bad Iran Deal Worse than No Deal
(CNN) Michael Rubin - By any Western standard, Tehran has every reason to come in from the cold. The problem is that the Iranian leadership does not operate by Western standards. Seldom does the Iranian government place the wellbeing of its population above its own revolutionary ideology. What the Iranian people may think is beside the point. Iranian officials will certainly say what is needed to relieve sanctions, but the Iranian leadership has no intention of giving up its nuclear ambitions. The author is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.