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President Obama talks with Cuban President Raul Castro before the thaw in US-Cuban relations was announced on December 17, 2014.

Iranians are jealous of the new US-Cuba thaw

December 18, 2014Global Politics

If Washington can bury the hatchet with Havana after more than a half century, why can’t it do the same with Tehran? That’s the question that many Iranians are now asking.

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