regime
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BERLIN—After strikes that decimated much of Iran’s leadership, the country’s top diplomat has become the chief messenger of a regime that says it won’t negotiate.
The targeting clearly shows a strategy to degrade the regime’s apparatus of repression, but risks harming the very prisoners it is intended to empower, analysts said.
A decade later, as a senior executive at Coral Capital in Havana, Mr. Purvis seems to have thought his company was in good standing with the regime.
"By changing the distance between the magnetic layers, we could drive the system into a regime of competing interactions where the rotors constantly reorganize as they slide," says Hongri Gu, who carried out the experiments.
From Science Daily
But Tehran’s ability to fire them demonstrated a more-aggressive posture by the regime and progress on the capacity to strike far beyond the Middle East.
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