Iran's die-hards will dump democracy - if the US helps

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Washington looks ready to strike a bargain with the rump republic

The tattered double act that has been Iranian politics in recent years is finally shuffling off the stage,...

Iran's political crisis has come at a time when its international isolation is diminishing. In spite of questions over Iranian sincerity on nuclear matters, seen again yesterday in Vienna, a certain convergence of US and Iranian interests is evident. American problems in Iraq and Afghanistan mean that Washington needs Tehran even more than it did before.


What an irony, however, that - if such a bargain is struck - it will not be with the transformed regime many inside and outside Iran once hoped the reformists would eventually create, but with a rump republic that has discarded its democratic aspirations.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1147314,00.html


Dejavue all over again.

The more things change....