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release of Gilad Shalit
and the arrest of Iranian Quds Force agent Manssor Arbabsiar -- a
connection that demonstrates Iran's fading influence since the
emergence of the Arab Spring.
Seldom ... regime finds itself in a corner, it typically
lashes out. Perhaps that explains why Arbabsiar's Iranian handlers
told him to "just do it quickly. It's late...."
Martin Indyk ... Iranians planned such a sensitive operation, why would they
delegate the job to Mansour Arbabsiar, an Iranian American former
used-car dealer, and a hit team drawn from a Mexican
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