MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Peter S. Goodman @ NYTimes.com, 5 hr. ago
In recent months, public anger over joblessness, economic anxiety and corruption has emerged as a potentially existential threat to Iran’s hard-line regime.
Its leaders are aware that war could worsen national fortunes and appear to be turning inward, pulling back from escalating hostilities with the U.S.