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The victory of the obscure Ayatollah Mohammed Khatami delighted the administration struggling to fashion a viable Iran policy. In spite of the fact that Washington had little knowledge of this so-called Cinderella candidate, there was a profound sense of relief; as one administration insider confessed, “in the end American policy on Iran turned out to be fine” because of the “deus ex machina of Mohammed Khatami.”1 However, once again the negotiated political order had confounded Iran watchers in Washington.
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Seliktar, O. (2012). The Clinton Administration and Khatami’s Iran. In: Navigating Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010889_7
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