America does not understand Iran (if the baseline
criteria to qualify a country for U.S. invasion is
"know thy enemy," then Iran is hereby disqualified).
Nor does it fully comprehend Iran's multilayered,
complex leadership. For one, Americans pay far too
much attention to the ranting of its lunatic
president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose anti-U.S. and
anti-Israel screeds, while disturbing, hardly
constitute Iranian foreign policy.
Real power lies with Iran's Supreme Leader, not its
president. Hence, Washington should pay closer
attention to the words of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who
remains the final arbiter of...
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