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August 17, 1790, found U.S. President George Washington traveling the country, in Newport, Rhode Island. Washington met with “the Hebrew Congregation” (Jewish group), and congregation leader (Rabbi?) Moses Seixas presented Washington with an address extolling Washington’s virtues, and the virtues of the new nation.  Seixas noted past persecutions of Jews, and signalled a hopeful note: Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free citizens, we now (with a

Iran's Failed Revolution by Doug Bandow Iran's Guardian Council has affirmed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory and demonstrations have ebbed. Repression appears to have worked. Washington is likely to face an Iranian government even less open to political reform and more committed to a nuclear program—with "a more decisive and powerful approach toward the West," in Ahmadinejad's words. America's options are limited: restrained engagement, with no illusions about the nature of the Iranian regime, is the best practical choice.