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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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