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Is This Time Different in Iran?

JL;DR SUMMARY The article by Peter Theroux critiques former President Barack Obama's and current President Joe Biden's responses to Iranian uprisings against the regime. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Biden AdministrationMahsa AminiMiddle EastIranProtestsBarack ObamaDiplomacyNuclear DealGreen MovementU.S. Iran Relations

Places mentioned

Tehran, Fars, Iran
"Here were thousands of young Iranians filling the streets of Tehran to appeal to him, even with a wistful pun on his name: Obama, ba ma bashid! Obama, be with us!"
Baghdad, Iraq
"The battlespace started shaping up six years ago this month under Trump, with the U.S. killing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, the second most powerful man in Iran, by U.S. drones at Baghdad Airport."
South Pars, Hormozgan, Iran
"Something else drove the following events such as the South Pars energy strike and reported military defections."
Damascus, Syria
"He had just arrived from Damascus, where he was briefing former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a plan to attack the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, as had been done in Tehran in 1979."
Israel
"And then after the Tehran-directed atrocity against Israel in October 2023, Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, Muhammed Deif, Hassan Nasrallah, Ibrahim Aqil, Hashem Safieddine, and Ismail Haniyeh in an IRGC safe house in Tehran, and almost a hundred more in Lebanon and Gaza."
Lebanon
"And then after the Tehran-directed atrocity against Israel in October 2023, Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, Muhammed Deif, Hassan Nasrallah, Ibrahim Aqil, Hashem Safieddine, and Ismail Haniyeh in an IRGC safe house in Tehran, and almost a hundred more in Lebanon and Gaza."
Palestinian Territories
"And then after the Tehran-directed atrocity against Israel in October 2023, Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, Muhammed Deif, Hassan Nasrallah, Ibrahim Aqil, Hashem Safieddine, and Ismail Haniyeh in an IRGC safe house in Tehran, and almost a hundred more in Lebanon and Gaza."

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