What Makes Ahmadinejad Smile?

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Author(s)	Fareed Zakaria
Source	Newsweek
Date	January 10, 2009
URL	http://www.newsweek.com/id/178850
Quote	"Men like Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah of Jordan don't have to worry about winning elections, so they can merely stay quiet. If you want to get a sense of where public opinion now stands in the region, listen to the only democratically elected leader in the Arab world. The prime minister of Iraq, America's staunch ally, Nuri al-Maliki, has called on all Arab and Muslim countries to "cancel their diplomatic relations and stop all contacts—public and private—with this murderous regime, which continues its painful aggression against peaceful, unarmed civilians.""

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