Dealing With Iran - Words of wisdom

A warning to the West: Both Iran strategies being debated in Washington would lead to disaster

Excerpted from remarks to the National Security Roundtable in New York on Oct. 9, by Dr. Assad Homayoun, a member of the WorldTribune.com Advisory Board, are reprinted courtesy of Defense & Foreign Affairs.
You all, this past month, heard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak in New York. You implicitly understood from his speeches that he and his clerical colleagues — who now so tenuously control Iran — are the enemy of the West, and that they are also the enemy of the Iranian people. The war which they have begun against the West is designed, first and foremost, to consolidate their illicit control over Iran itself. The clerics do not represent the Iranian people or the historical Persian nation. And my task here today is to ensure that the United States does not commit either of the two great strategic mistakes which are currently being promoted in Washington, DC. Those mistaken paths are, firstly, the desire of one part of Washington to “normalize” relations with Iran by treating the clerical administration as though it were legitimate. This would consolidate the clerics’ power over the people of Iran, who overwhelmingly despise clerical rule, and who overwhelmingly see the United States and the West as their allies. The second mistaken path being advocated by part of the Washington, DC, establishment is that the U.S. should take military action against “Iran”.
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