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Iran Likely to Act More Aggressively after a Nuclear Deal
(Washington Post) Steven Mufson and Greg Jaffe - President Obama has repeatedly voiced the hope that an Iran free of sanctions and open to Western investment would change, spending more money on improving living standards and less on destabilizing proxy militias and terrorist groups. Yet some critics doubt that will be the case. "It's an authoritarian regime," said Tamara Cofman Wittes, a former top Obama administration State Department official and director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. "It has never focused on its people and sanctions relief won't change it....It is much more likely that Iran will react to a nuclear deal by acting more aggressively in other domains."