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(admittedly flawed and politicized) terrorism list; why a lack of determined opposition (unlike to, say, Jonathan Pollard\u2019s pardon) will probably get the MEK what it wants; why Americans never seem to catch on even after being lied into war again and again; Rupert Murdoch\u2019s newspaper empire that specializes in printing propaganda about Iran from Israeli and British intelligence agencies; and the best way to get a \u201cPersian summer\u201d after the Arab spring: leave Iran alone and stop giving the regime an external enemy to blame for its problems.<\/p>\n