There?s something Shakespearean about America?s showdown with Iran: high drama, fated tragedy, larger-than-life characters. There is the torrid, decades-long affair with the shah; the confrontation with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his revolution; the horror of the embassy hostages and the melodrama of Iran-contra; and of course, Lebanon, the Beirut hostage-taking and the murders at Khobar Towers. And all along, the endless minuet among Iranian pragmatists, reformists, hard-liners and a succession of American presidents. And, ah, the nuclear weapon hovering unseen over the stage. Now rumors of war signal the coming climactic scene that seems to have been building for so long.
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