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| The Tears of Iran |
| 2005-03-01 |
| Frontpage Interview's guests today are Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi and her husband Elio Bonazzi. Both are writers, activists and Middle East pundits. Excerpt: FP: In what ways do you think that the West fails to understand Iran? BZB & EB: ... In many occasions, Westerners assume that everybody in the world shares their standard behavior; basically they project their mentality onto all counterparts. And here is where, in the case of Iran, they dramatically fail. The Islamist establishment that unfortunately today governs that country is not interested in making the best possible deal with the West. Its only interest is the destruction of the infidels and their corrupt world. While in the West the act of engagement is absolutely neutral, and doesn't imply giving in, but simply to sit down and negotiate, in the mentality of the mullahs to engage basically means that the counterpart proposing engagement feels weak, and tries to beg for a deal from an inferior position. Key for the EU3 to learn this. ... Another sad example is the recent book by Ken Pollack titled "The Persian Puzzle." Mr. Pollack shows an encyclopedic knowledge of Iran and its history, definitely he knows more than even many of the well-educated Iranians. Yet, in spite of all his knowledge, he fails to grasp the basic concept that the only way to deal with the Islamist threat is to actively pursue regime change in Tehran; anything short of that is simply postponing the inevitable showdown, which will occur sooner or later. The sooner the better for the West, which would confront a regime that doesn't have yet a nuclear arsenal at his disposal. Rest at link. |
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