Gordon Crovitz: Iran’s Attention-Span Advantage

Wall Street Journal — Tehran’s goals haven’t wavered since 1979. The U.S. couldn’t even keep track of its concessions.

Dealing effectively with Iran requires understanding the differences between an Islamic theocracy and a democracy. One is a gap in attention spans: The mullahs since their 1979 revolution have patiently built a formidable terrorist state. Their negotiating partners are from an American political culture that has a hard time keeping straight from week to week what the negotiations were supposed to be about.

When the nuclear talks began, President Obama said the goal was to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons without…

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