What Suzanne Maloney thinks about optimism
American scholar of Iran, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution; earlier a member of the US State Department's policy planning staff and author of Iran's Political Economy since the Revolution (2015).
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Their wordsI'm profoundly skeptical of @VP 's 'cautious optimism.' Much like the calculus that drove @POTUS ' decision to launch the war, the case betrays a simplistic understanding of the Islamic Republic & the forces that have sustained its aggression vs the US, its neighbors & its people.