Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

Popular Topics
Movie Love, Leadership, English, Things In Life, Pregnancy, Lifetime, Culture, Value Of Life, Enthusiast, Fitness, Path Of Love, Thing, Gossip, Angry, Peace And Love, Feelings, Curiosity, Life Is Good, Home, Kind, Hope, Faith, Passive, Inspire, Perfect Love, Humbly, Philosophy, Wonder, Heart, Alien, Once Upon A Time, Like, Motor, Dance, Reality, Kindness, Creative, Children, I Like You, Technical, Life Is Like, Achievement, Involve, Relationships, Goodbye, Poor, Thank You, Impossible, Food, Education
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 during the Iranian revolution actually defined itself as anti-American, and that's now a critical ingredient in the Iranian domestic political debate. That really is the source of our problems - the regime in Tehran continues to see itself as opposing the US. In their eyes, everything the US does is directed at them in a very malevolent way, and therefore they have to fight back against it.

Become, Continues, Eye, Fighting, Support, Tehran
Same Author Quotes

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

Constitution, Good, Having, Immediate, Important

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

Billions, Contribute, Hundreds, States, Tens, United

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's hard to figure out why the US and Iran would necessarily be in conflict. In fact during the shah's era, before 1979 - recognizing that there were all kinds of other problems - the US and Iran worked together splendidly at the strategic level.

1979, Era, Kind, Level, Thinking, Together

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

Believe, Nuclear Weapons, Vulnerable, Weapons

The real concern is that Iran would do what Pakistan did. Pakistan wanted nuclear weapons, like Iran, purely for defensive reasons - to defend itself against India. The problem was that once Pakistan acquired the weapons, it allowed the country to be more aggressive. So they stepped up their support for the Kashmiri terrorists, and it led very quickly to the Kargil crisis in 2000, which almost sparked a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.

Against, Country, Real, Stepped, Support, War
Similar Quotes