Sveta, this is all good, but do you deny that Reagan was driven by self-interest ( or, by the US interest)? The only reason US acted is because they felt threatened by the USSR at that point of history. Nobody helped my grandfather when he vanished in Gulag.
What do we suggest USA did to Iran in response to, admittedly, despicable acts committed there? Constructively?
in a format "If I was a President...."?

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