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Source: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/06/14/iranian_election_uproar_tests_us/
Iranian Election Outcome Complicates Obama's Plan for Talks
[Boston Globe] Farah Stockman - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory raised fears in Washington that President Obama's attempt to hold talks with the Iranian government will now be far more difficult. "The world just got a lot more complicated for Obama," said Michael Rubin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who tracks and translates Persian-language news reports. Obama has said he will try to engage Iran, regardless of the election results. Now Obama will be making his outreach to a regime that a wide swath of Iranians believe stole the election.