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Democracy around the world looking healthier
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 19, 2022
More than a decade ago, scholars began pointing to a troubling global trend: a “democratic recession.” Dozens of countries were drifting away from dem...
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Lessons for Joe Biden on Iran
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 28, 2022
With dozens of protesters now killed in Iran as unrest sparked by the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the country’s morality police...
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Nobody said nuclear deal with Iran would be easy
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 07, 2021
Diplomats from Iran, the United States and five other powers gathered in Vienna last week to try to revive President Barack Obama’s 2015 deal limiting...
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Russian and Iranian proxy forces are baffling the US
Local Columnists, Nation World
HAL BRANDS Tribune News Service 
Jul 28, 2021
What do rocket strikes by Shiite militias in Iraq, ransomware attacks on targets in the U.S., and Russia’s use of mercenaries on battlefields in the M...
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Russian and Iranian proxy forces are baffling the US
Local Columnists, Nation World
HAL BRANDS Tribune News Service 
Jul 28, 2021
What do rocket strikes by Shiite militias in Iraq, ransomware attacks on targets in the U.S., and Russia’s use of mercenaries on battlefields in the M...
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Don’t play softball with Iran
Local Columnists, Nation World
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Feb 26, 2021
President Joe Biden says he’s ready to resuscitate the Iran deal former President Barack Obama disastrously gave us if Iran quits its advanced uranium...
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Troubled history of US-Iran relations
Commentary, Nation World
LAWRENCE J. KORB Tribune News Service 
Jan 09, 2020
As President Donald Trump and his advisers contemplate the next steps to take in the conflict he instigated with Iran, they are focused primarily on t...
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From the Right: Is Trump ‘the grown-up in the room’?
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NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to The Olean TImes Herald 
Aug 13, 2018
It is a truism on the left that Donald Trump is the epitome of a braggart and a bully: prickly, juvenile and keen on smearing his enemies. While no on...
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Why Iran needs reform before a revolution
Commentary, Nation World
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Bloomberg News 
Jul 23, 2018
(TNS) Those who advocate regime change in Iran are of varied political persuasions — some are monarchists, some are Marxists, and some are just fed up...
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Will Trump turn out to be right about Iran deal?
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JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
May 15, 2018
(TNS) So, so many are quick to say President Donald Trump made a horrible error in withdrawing from the 2015 Iranian nuclear accord, and some doubts a...
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