Opinion | Iran Should Become Another Vietnam

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From WSJopinion: Vietnam decided to be neither a revisionist power nor a regional threat. Iran should make the same choice, writes todlindberg

Global View: Iran has been boxed into a corner as the Trump Administration's strategy toward the economically-embattled nation enters a new phase. Image: Reuters/Getty Composite: Brad HowardThe U.S. suffered two brutal humiliations during the 1970s—the fall of Saigon to Communist North Vietnam in 1975 and Iran’s invasion of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

There’s a lesson for Iran in Vietnam’s experience. The latter remains a dictatorship, and Saigon is officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, named...

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