“What did the Iranians do to warrant such deafening and dramatic saber-rattling? Test a nuclear device? Open a military base in Mexico? No. They voted for moderate Iranian politician, Hasan Rouhani, to be president. To punctuate his expressed desire to open to the West, the English-speaking Rouhani unveiled his cabinet today, which includes a PhD from the University of Denver as his new foreign minister and a PhD from the George Washington University as his chief of staff. Iran watcher and RPI advisor Prof. Flint Leverett observed that ‘Rohani has appointed his A-team to do a deal with the U.S. It shows Iran is serious.'”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/how-dare-the-iranians-elect-a-moderate/
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