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Iran’s poisoned chalice: can economic pressure end the regime? - opinion

· By MIKE EVANS
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Ayatollah Khomeini referred to his 1988 decision to accept a ceasefire ending the eight-year Iran-Iraq War as “drinking the poisoned chalice.”

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