The United States and Iran are set to begin peace talks on April 11 in Islamabad, Pakistan. It’s a road to nowhere. Despite President Donald Trump’s claim that he achieved regime change in Iran, the country’s leadership hasn’t fundamentally changed. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, but the system he built remains. The faces may be different, but the ideology is not. Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, who will lead Iran’s negotiating team, was a loyalist of the late supreme leader with deep ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – Iran’s most powerful military force. If Trump sees him as a pragmatic dealmaker,…
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