ARTICLE: 'The Iranian Spectacle: An Istanbul Dispatch,' By Afshin Molavi, New America Foundation, Journal of International Affairs, Spring/Summer 2007

Good article, showing that it's a bit simple to say that high energy prices reward dictators and insulate them from the need to reform.

Bad economics is bad economics.

The question is, How to enable good economics? By focusing so much on the nuke issue or by engaging Iran more broadly?

We did that with nuke-heavy, terrorist-bankrolling USSR and what did that get us?

Eventually, no more USSR.

Thanks to Lexington Green for sending this.