Kenneth M. Pollack

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

— Kenneth M. Pollack

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

— Kenneth M. Pollack

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

— Kenneth M. Pollack

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

— Kenneth M. Pollack

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

— 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.…

— Kenneth M. Pollack

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…

— 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…

— Kenneth M. Pollack

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

— 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…

— Kenneth M. Pollack

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

— Kenneth M. Pollack

I think if you could remove all of the baggage - all of the ideology, the history, whatever else - and look…

— Kenneth M. Pollack

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

— 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…

— Kenneth M. Pollack