Iran’s success in winning an end to international sanctions will only intensify a power struggle among the faction-ridden elite, and President Hassan Rouhani cannot count on domestic political support from the supreme leader before two critical elections. However, Tehran’s leadership has now decided on a less confrontational foreign policy than in the past, although a restoration of full ties with the “Great Satan” – the United States – remains out of the question, officials say. The scrapping of most U.S., European Union and United Nations sanctions on Saturday under a nuclear deal with six major powers should strengthen both the economy and Shi’ite Iran’s hand in a Mideast region torn by sectarian strife. Rouhani, a pragmatist whose 2013 election […]