1.0 link 53018 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hasdai-westbrook/engaging-the-other-iran_b_53018.html As Iran's scientists busily enrich uranium, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to project defiance against an America that is hopelessly entangled in Iraq and hemorrhaging international prestige. These would seem to be good times for Ahmadinejad and his fellow hardliners in the Islamic Revolutionary government: America has crushed their great Iraqi Baathist rival, losing much of its international credibility and regional influence in the process while contributing to a rise in oil prices that only increases Iran's geostrategic leverage, rich...

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