Via Drum, this seems quite likely right to me:The Revolutionary Guard may also have hoped to sabotage diplomatic negotiations over the nuclear issue. U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said several weeks ago that the United States was getting "pinged all over the world" by...
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There are some things to like in Helmut's discussion of Fukuyama's NYT piece, in particular his point about the Cold War providing ideological cover for any policy the US wanted.