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|author=Mark Brzezinski, Ray Takeyh
|source=The Boston Globe
|date=January 11, 2008
|url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/11/forging_ties_with_iran/
|quote="Now that a nuclear threat is not imminent, the US long-range goal for negotiations with Iran ought to be to create a context in which Iran sees it as in its own self-interest to become more closely associated with the West and the international order. The US approach should reflect the mixed nature of shared as well as conflicting interests with Iran. The stabilization of Iraq, Persian Gulf security, nuclear counterproliferation, among others, should be cast as shared interests."
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