Feisty Iran Proving Ever More Exasperating to U.S., World

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WASHINGTON -- Virtually every year, the State Department issues a report fingering state sponsors of international terrorism. Without fail, the name at the top of the list is always the same: Iran.

"It is," said Iran scholar Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations, "sort of an implicit acknowledgement of the failure of U.S. policy."

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Feisty Iran Proving Ever More Exasperating to U.S., World

A generation after Iran's Islamic Revolution, getting Iran to abandon the pursuit of nuclear weapons, stop supporting international terrorism and accept Israel's right to exist is a more pressing -- and dicey -- challenge than ever for the United States and its partners.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has steered his country of 70 million people on a sharply confrontational course...

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