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299 | Reza Aslan: How Should Americans React to Iran's Revolution(s)?

The Realignment

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I Think the United States Played an Important Role in the Dashed Optimism of 2011

Reuben: As a post-Arab spring i am incredibly skeptical that democratic change revolutions etc will abound in the name of democracy look at you know egypt or to us national interest we would be giving up both sorry. How should folks who are suffering to hang over not really from the iraq war but from the dashed optimism of 2011 how should they think of what you're describing? Reuben: I don't think that we should ignore the role that the united states played in the the dashed Optimism of 2011 or in iran in 2009 and it's precisely what we're seeing now is because the morality police more or less went away under rohani.

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