The latest protests within Iran have come and gone — for the most part — but their impact will endure. Article Continued BelowThe challenge is that, more than any country in the Middle East, the Islamic Republic of Iran is replete with paradoxes. We saw that this on Thursday when Europe’s major powers met with Iran’s foreign minister to defend the nuclear deal so loathed by Trump. At the time, this is what I wrote: “Although the swearing-in at Rideau Hall must have happened in the dead of night, Canada appears to have a new foreign minister. If we truly care about those protesters, the future of Iran should not be left to the extremists on either side.

Source: thestar January 13, 2018 12:11 UTC