Cohen’s Latest Dispatch

June 24, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Iran 

I’m surprised I’m writing this, but Roger Cohen again encapsulates what we have seen so far in Iran and is able to capture the underlying political and social dynamics.

Cohen also poses two important questions, that dare I say should be directed at President Obama as he ponders his next moves:

Thirty years from the revolution, the core question of this election was: Must Iran stand apart from the forces of economic and political globalization in order to preserve its Islamic theocracy?

Or is it confident enough of its Islamic identity, and its now firmly established independence from America, to trash the nest-of-spies vitriol and an ultimately self-defeating isolation?

The answer has been devastating.

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