Western analysts and negotiators posit a split in Tehran between President Rouhani (moderate) and Supreme Leader Khamenei (hardline). In reality, the latter is firmly in control. 

Through his long career, the president of Iran has frequently shown a “pragmatic” face to foreigners—always in pursuit of revolutionary goals. 

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Deluding Western leaders about a “new openness,” the rulers in Tehran hope not to reform but to preserve their hard-line Islamist regime. 

The big question is not how Washington will handle Tehran’s inevitable violations of the nuclear agreement struck over the weekend, but how it will. . .

The U.S. must intensify sanctions, initiate new military deployments, and make clear its support for Israeli military action if conducted—because a bad deal is worse. . .

“If we have to choose between the ‘bomb’ or the ‘bombing,’ I’m for the ‘bombing.’” And Israel doesn’t need America. “It can do it alone.”. . .

America can be wrong about Hassan Rouhani without lethal consequences. Israel has no such margin of error.

Alarmed by American overtures toward the Rouhani regime, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are increasingly cooperating with Israel in hopes of combating Iran.

Western leaders believe that Hassan Rouhani, like Mikhail Gorbachev, is a leader they can do business with. He isn’t even a leader.