Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that compromising on revolutionary principles could weaken the Islamic Republic, citing Mikhail Gorbachev’s attempts at perestroika as a factor that hastened the collapse of the USSR.

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• Person: William J. Burns, Michèle Flournoy Organization: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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