How the NIE changed the discussion

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Notice how the NIE changed not just our dialogue on Iran but reoriented Iranian discussion toward the domestic non-performance of the Ahmadinejad administration?

(Thanks: Rob Johnson, Michael Griffin)

Comments

[Louis Heberlein]

It certainly seems the NIE had that impact.

[farhad]

hopefully,more attention is directed internally by Iranians,and thestudent and other various (speacially oil) union and movements getmore organized,and possibly with more strikes,paralize this 10thcentury Government, bring about a secular and more democratic one.can America realize that and support it for its own good too?! of course,after Bush(the word bush means smell in farsi. i say stink)