Brutish and Short: How Iran Learned to Thrive on Conflict
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The life of the Islamic Republic until, say, 1990, had been brutish and short. And this is how the head of the nascent body-politic became so heavily invested in an adversarial identity, so dependent on international tension and the perception of a state under siege.
By Rod Mamudi, ContributorGraduate, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po P..., 2014-07-02