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…

- Kenneth M. Pollack

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 …

- Kenneth M. Pollack

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…

- Kenneth M. Pollack

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…

- Kenneth M. Pollack

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'…

- Kenneth M. Pollack

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 …

- Kenneth M. Pollack

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

- Kenneth M. Pollack

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…

- Kenneth M. Pollack

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

- Kenneth M. Pollack