The real concern is that Iran would do what Pakistan did. Pakistan wanted nuclear weapons, like Iran, purely for defensive reasons - to defend itself….

Iran uses terrorism very instrumentally as an element of foreign policy; they are not just intent on just killing as many people as possible, like al….

Most Iranians are sick and tired of revolutions. They've had one for the last 25 years, and they don't want another one. Those who've tried to spark ….

Once Iran gets nuclear weapons, they may believe that they are no longer vulnerable to either..

It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribu….

More likely, there were probably some real divisions within the Iranian government - some groups wanted to ally with al Qaeda against us, others didn….

I think if you could remove all of the baggage - all of the ideology, the history, whatever else - and look in purely geostrategic terms, I think it'….

The Iranians are very skilled terrorist, and we'd have to expect that they'd hit at us as hard as they could. Especially in Iraq, where they have a g….

In the United States, Iran is nothing but a whipping-boy. Few Americans have any real use for Iran. Most of us, what we know and remember about Iran ….

Our support for the Shah, the CIA coup in 1953 - has become infused into the Iranian political discourse. The regime that came to power in 1979 durin….

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution..

The Europeans are starting to show that they're finally serious about the Iranian nuclear program, and they appear to be willing to use sticks agains….

The basic problem with the Non-Proliferation Treaty is there's no teeth in it, no penalties for countries that don't comply. Worse, as you say, the v….

The US has just consistently tried to ignore Iran. And this is ironic because the Iranians believe that the United States is as obsessed about them a….