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Trita Parsi
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1. Zarif's resignation has mobilized the public and elements of the political establishment favoring moderation behind him, while revealing the common interest between Iran's hardliners and hawks in Israel, DC and Saudi.

If Zarif stays, he'll be in stronger position than before.
2. If Ayatollah Khamenei refuses to accept his resignation, Zarif will be serving BECAUSE of Khamenei's insistence. This will give him an important layer of protection against his hardline critics.
3. The public outcry in support of Zarif will make it all the more difficult for Rouhani and Ayatollah Khamenei to accept his resignation. It's a reminder that while hardliners have stepped up their attacks on Zarif, they enjoy far less public support than he does.
4. Also critical to understand that had Trump not waged a war on the #IranDeal and deprived Iranians of the economic benefits they were promised, it would have been much harder for the hardliners to attack and corner Zarif. Trump enabled the hardliners.
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Shocked to see how some have reacted to revelation that the traffic on their Twitter is largely driven by bots of the MEK terror org.

Instead of taking a step back and assessing why their tweets are so popular with these terrorists, they've chosen to attack the messenger :(
Most peace-loving, pro-democracy people would be horrified to find out at their tweets are being promoted by a terrorist organization.

But these guys are instead teaming up with the terrorist army of bots to attack the independent researcher who revealed this whole thing.
Makes you wonder why they're so comfortable with being operationally on the same side as the MEK terror org.

Difficult to take their slogans in favor of democracy in Iran seriously when they're striking de facto alliances with Saudi-funded terrorists...
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1. Willful blindness is needed to bemoan America's lessened footprint in the MidEast and claim it'll "destabilize" the region. In reality, the US's policy of primacy has encouraged US "allies" to be even more reckless and destabilizing.
Consider the following:
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1. Astonished - but not surprised - by DC pundits outrage and horror over Trump's Syria withdrawal.

"Trump is handing Syria to Russia and Iran"

No, Syria is not America's to begin with. It's not America's to give away or keep.

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No, America getting entangled in endless wars of no strategic significance is a gift to Putin and Khamenei.

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