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October 5, 2012

How Politics Nuked Iran's Economy

Meir Javedanfar, The Diplomat

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Iran is facing a threat even more severe than the Stuxnet computer virus, a sophisticated line of code which was reportedly sponsored by the U.S. and Israel, and which destroyed some of Iran’s uranium centrifuges in 2010. In Persian, this affliction is called Siyasat Bazee – in English, playing politics.

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TAGGED: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran

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