“I drank the cup of poison,” late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini said in June 1988 upon signing the UN truce deal that put an end to eight disastrous years of war with neighbouring Iraq.
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“Iranians will not completely stop enriching uranium. Even if (Iranian President Hassan) Rouhani’s administration wanted to do this, it would be politically damaging,” Geneive Abdo, a fellow at Stimson’s Middle East programme and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, told Ahram Online.
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