Negotiating with the devil

IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re

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IT IS A PERILOUS MOMENT FOR Iran. Israel has gained control of the skies. Much of the regime’s top military command has been taken out, to say nothing of the civilian toll. U.S. President Donald Trump

Jimmy Carter’s abrasive foreign policy adviser and rival to Henry Kissinger

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