THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Jude Russo) - Iran’s Grand Tragedy
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Iran Iran’s Grand Tragedy Things are more complicated than they appear. Credit: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History, by Vali Nasr. Princeton University Press, 408 pages. Imagine a nation whose national security doctrine demands that it take on an ever-expanding sphere of interests and obligations to needy clients. The pursuit of this doctrine, which is conditioned by ideological commitments to lead and expand a particular bloc, has engendered a variety of internal economic and political distortions; the leadership that is invested in the doctrine and its ideological impedimenta is aging, largely corrupt, and often unpopular. Diplomatic rigidity and artlessness make the nation unpopular abroad, forcing…Open