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Backing the Students

Authored by Michael Pate on July 9th, 2003 at 10:57 AM

Some top policymakers in the Bush administration will be watching carefully today to see what, if anything, happens on the streets of Tehran — where rebellious Iranian students may seek to mark the anniversary of their landmark 1999 anti-government demonstrations by trying to revive them. Having largely abandoned previous U.S. efforts to cultivate reformers in the Iranian government, President Bush is openly backing the students, and the administration’s hopes for an Iranian regime change now mostly rest on the bet that the country’s restless youth will succeed in touching off a broader popular upheaval. - Washington Post

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