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Protests in Iran

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Is There Business as Usual With Iran?

I truly believe that authoritarianism in Iran is sustained by isolation and, you know, breaking that isolation. So to reverse that, sort of allow Iran back into the world's economy would be transformative. But that seems to not be at all where the geopolitics are, certainly in the region and with the West. I mean, that kind of pressure from Germany, that's another example of an outside force assuming or presuming to be on the side of the protesters but actually not.

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