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May 18, 2011

Iran Has Been Isolated by the Arab Spring

Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

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The era of cocky Iranian international defiance may be drawing to a close as it deals with the fallout from Middle East uprisings.

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TAGGED: Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ali Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran

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