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Who Is Helping Iran's Hard-Liners?
(Washington Post) Charles Krauthammer - Everyone now knows that "anytime, anywhere" inspections - indispensable for a clandestine nuclear program in a country twice the size of Texas with a long history of hiding and cheating - has been changed to "You've got 24 days and then we're coming in for a surprise visit." Snapback sanctions? Everyone knows that once the international sanctions are lifted, they are never coming back. The Death-to-America Iranian hard-liners are the government, for God's sake - the entire state apparatus of the Islamic Republic from the Revolutionary Guards to supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei - who for decades have propagated, encouraged and applauded those "Death to America" chants. With this agreement, this repressive, intolerant, aggressive, supremely anti-American regime - the chief exporter of terror in the world - is stronger and more entrenched than it has ever been.