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… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
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 are things like the hostage crisis in 1980, or they think about… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
Once Iran gets nuclear weapons, they may believe that they are no longer vulnerable to either. — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
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… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
The US has just consistently tried to ignore Iran. And this is ironic because the Iranians believe that the United States is as obsessed… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
Our support for the Shah, the CIA coup in 1953 - has become infused into the Iranian political discourse. The regime that came to… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
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… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution. — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
I think if you could remove all of the baggage - all of the ideology, the history, whatever else - and look in purely… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
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,… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
More likely, there were probably some real divisions within the Iranian government - some groups wanted to ally with al Qaeda against us, others… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
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,… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
The real concern is that Iran would do what Pakistan did. Pakistan wanted nuclear weapons, like Iran, purely for defensive reasons - to defend… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
Iran uses terrorism very instrumentally as an element of foreign policy; they are not just intent on just killing as many people as possible,… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
