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July 10, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.eng.gees.org/articulo/431/

Iran: Pursuing the Apocalypse

[GEES-Strategic Studies Group-Spain] Rafael L. Bardaji - If there was any hope to start a new relation with the Iran of the Ayatollahs, that hope is gone now. Westerners often tend to forget that the Iranian regime, which Khomeini created thirty years ago, is theocratic, fundamentalist, and revolutionary. Its structures are not subject to reform and it is incorrigible in its nature. With a good overdose of good will, it is easy to build one's hopes up over Iran, yet the Islamic Republic of Iran is not your average regime. Ahmadinejad is popular among Iranians due largely to his advocacy of the atomic program and nothing can make him think that he must give it up now. Extending the promise of starting a new relationship with the Iranian regime would be a moral abomination and a political crime. The Western community will also be digging its own grave because the Iranian leaders want the bomb to guarantee the success of its Islamic revolution.

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