WSJ
If you were a 21-year-old Iranian college student who helped storm the American Embassy and hold diplomats hostage in 1979, you would be 57 years old now. And in 10 years, when a nuclear deal now being negotiated with the U.S. and other world powers has run its course, you’d be 67.
In other words, the generation that shaped the revolutionary policies of today’s Iran will, over the course of the proposed nuclear deal, increasingly be replaced by a new set of younger Iranians. The leaders of this new generation will have less personal investment in the anger and paranoia of the Islamic revolution and, presumably, fewer of the hang-ups about the Great Satan in Washington. Perhaps they will bring a new attitude.
This is one of the more intriguing arguments for the proposed nuclear deal with Iran, which negotiators are trying to finish up this week or next.
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