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Iran Follies; Why U.S. policy toward Tehran will only make matters worse.

Newsweek International

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Byline: Nisid Hajari (With Maziar Bahari in Tehran and Zvika Krieger in New York)

On Iranian state TV these days, the appeals to solidarity with Hizbullah are anything but subtle. One slick video collage zips from U.S. President George W. Bush hailing the dawn of a new Middle East to a Beirut apartment tower being obliterated by Israeli missiles. Urgent, martial music pounds through a slide show of further contrasts--Bush and a screaming Palestinian girl; Condoleezza Rice and fear-stricken refugees fleeing southern Lebanon; John Bolton and a dead Lebanese child. Then, a pause: defiant Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah addresses an adoring crowd. When the ...

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