The question that has organized most serious analysis of Iran for the past half-century is: What does the Islamic Republic want? It is a reasonable question, but not the right one. The Islamic Republic is 47 years old. Iran, as a modern coherent political entity, is five centuries old. Conflating the two has produced nearly half a century of failed U.S. policy, collapsed agreements, and a war that few saw coming in its current form. The more useful question is what Iran wants; not this

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