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Trump wants to pick Iran’s next leader. That could backfire

After saying he wants a leader in Tehran who treats the US and Israel well, Donald Trump’s comments revive a long history of foreign powers trying to shape Iran’s leadership from the 1953 coup to the 1979 revolution often with unintended consequences.

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