There is "that one" and then there is That One, namely an unadulterated bogeyman of the presidential campaign: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. My friends, we tend to throw partisanship to the winds to all agree that he is an evildoer and that we'd best not directly negotiate with him.
And that's why, my friends, you should take a look at "The Latter-Day Sultan: Power and Politics in Iran" in the November-December issue of Foreign Affairs, the ever-elite, but increasingly accessible...
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