Abstract
This article argues that as long as Iran’s post-election crisis remains unresolved, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s resort to rhetoric centered on treating the US & the West as enemies, which is part of his stance on the nuclear program, cannot be decoupled from a more promising position of insisting on a sovereign right to enrichment. It is contended that the Iranian people are reluctant to back the nuclear program when it seems to be a mere trump card of hardline politicians pursuing a confrontational foreign policy.
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