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Tehran selling deal with US as victory – but for Iranians it was necessity
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- Amir Azimi Senior News Editor – Persian Service Reuters Iran's leadership is trying to present its emerging memorandum of understanding (Mo U) with the US not as a retreat, but as the result of resistance and victory.
- The country has just gone through a damaging war, the economy is under severe pressure, and parts of the Islamic Republic's own support base have spent months denouncing any compromise with Washington.
- There are also Iranians, both inside the country and abroad, who see the crisis not as a moment for diplomacy, but as an opportunity for regime change.
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Amir Azimi Senior News Editor – Persian Service Reuters Iran's leadership is trying to present its emerging memorandum of understanding (Mo U) with the US not as a retreat, but as the result of resistance and victory. That is not an easy argument to make.
The country has just gone through a damaging war, the economy is under severe pressure, and parts of the Islamic Republic's own support base have spent months denouncing any compromise with Washington.
There are also Iranians, both inside the country and abroad, who see the crisis not as a moment for diplomacy, but as an opportunity for regime change.
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