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David Brooks, The Atlantic
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Rick Joe, The Diplomat
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Sanam Vakil, Chatham House
The election of conservative Ebrahim Raisi as president of Iran has driven home a harsh fact for the international community: the Islamic Republic will not be undergoing its long hoped for transformational reform in the near future.
H. French, WPR
Before sitting down to write this week's column, I opened a large and tattered, white, padded envelope that had arrived from Hong Kong late last week to find the final issue of the city's once famously feisty newspaper, the Apple Daily, which was forced by local authorities to shut down for political reasons on June 24.
Jeremy Cliffe, New Statesman
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Michael Mazza, War on the Rocks
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