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If you think Iran is a difficult country to understand, you're absolutely right. It is a place, after all, that has inspired books entitled "Who Runs Iran?", where Western diplomats hold cocktail parties to discuss how baffled they are, where no one conducts opinion polls (the last person who...
The Iranian establishment is convinced that the United States cannot simply not stomach an Islamic regime in Tehran, and will seek to dislodge it with time, no matter what it may say to the contrary. You can call this paranoia if you like, but it is a fixed perspective held...
Iran's president is fond of folksy mysticism, but that doesn't drive his policies. Since his election last year, many have argued that Ahmadinejad's religious beliefs are apocalyptic, and that he seeks to hasten the end of time by acquiring and using nuclear weapons. The paranoia is so...
A more popular reference to Iranians' loose relationship with the truth is the Islamic and especially Shi'ite principle of taqiyya, the practice of hiding one's religious faith under life threatening circumstances. Taqiyya evolved during the early centuries of Islam, when Shi'ite Muslims faced persecution for their minority...
If Iran's main ambition is a nationalistic drive for regional prominence, it is natural to ask why it cannot pursue this goal by aligning its interests with the West, and normalizing relations with the United States. After all, the strategy Iran pursues today - backing Islamic militant groups, keeping Iraq...