THE QUESTION

Ahmadinejad's pardon of 15 captured British sailors raises the question: Who's running Iran and how should we deal with them?

Posted by David Ignatius and Fareed Zakaria on April 4, 2007 10:00 AM

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Bashir Goth is a veteran journalist, freelance writer, the first Somali blogger and editor of a leading news website. He is also a regular contributor to major Middle Eastern and African newspapers and online journals.

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Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff is a Senior Director at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a transatlantic public policy and grant-making foundation. He overseas the fund's policy programs. He was previously the Washington bureau chief of the German newsweekly, Die Zeit.

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Shim Jae Hoon is a Seoul-based journalist and commentator writing for a variety of international publications including YaleGlobal Online, The Straits Times of Singapore, The Taipei Times and Korea Herald. He was a correspondent for Far Eastern Economic Review in Seoul, Taipei and Jakarta.

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» BobL-V A | Looking through the clutter, Oh, to the contrary. The Iranians knew exactly whose gun boats those were. It really isn't that difficult to identify ...
» Look through the clutter | I have been discussing this around the office and many of the views that have been posted have been discussed in and about my office too. I think peo...
» daniel | Who is running Iran and how should we deal with them? A good question. But this question can be asked of any Islamic country--and it seems to me this...
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