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inspiration and insights​  The Iranian Threat  The Iranian
Threat  Only severe sanctions backed by military threat will
have any impact.   Defying both history and logic, the idea that
the West should diplomatically engage with Tehran still commands
an important following.  Despite the massive waves of
demonstrators across Iran who charged their government with
rigging the June 12 presidential elections, there still are
officials in the Obama administration who seem to believe that
engagement with the Islamic Republic should "remain on the
table," as columnist Roger Cohen put it in the New York Times
Magazine this week. Javier Solana, the European Union foreign
policy chief, agrees: "We would like very much that soon we will
have the possibility to restart multilateral talks with Iran on
the important nuclear issues," he said on June 24.  But they're
wrong, just as they have been from the