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Busy Iranians. Worried Iranians?

Maybe it is just because I check the Iranian “Islamic Republic News Agency” every day, but it seems to me that the Iranians are conducting an awful lot of high-level diplomacy these days. They’ve had various Iraqis in town recently. Then Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul that the Americans ...

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Maybe it is just because I check the Iranian “Islamic Republic News Agency” every day, but it seems to me that the Iranians are conducting an awful lot of high-level diplomacy these days. They’ve had various Iraqis in town recently. Then Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul that the Americans are still bad. Next up, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. My guess is that President Obama has the Iranian government worried.

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1
Tags: Barack Obama, Iran, Iraq, U.S. Foreign Policy

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