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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011902523.html
Containing Tehran
(Washington Post) David Ignatius - How should the U.S. think about Iran? What explains the fanaticism of President Ahmadinejad, and what can America and its allies do to change it? In crafting their Iran policy, administration officials don't want the nuclear issue to be isolated from the more basic problem of Tehran's erratic and potentially destabilizing role in the Middle East. Unless the Iranian president moderates his line, officials predict that his extremism will be increasingly unpopular with the Iranian people, who want to be more connected with the rest of the world rather than more isolated.