This was inevitable. The Harvard Crimson reports on what the so-far suppressed Iranian revolt means to nuke negotiations. And of course the arrow points one way for an ideologue:
History Professor Roy P. Mottahedeh, who specializes in Middle Eastern
intellectual history and is of Iranian descent, said he believes a
revolution may occur, and added that it is important to remember that
since martyrs sanctify any cause in the Iranian context, the more
people the regime kills, the more the opposition will feel
“sanctified.”
Mottahedeh also suggested that the West may not have as much to fear from the threat of a nuclear Iran as it thinks.
“The Iranian government is so disorganized that God knows if
they even know where [the nuclear program] is,” he said. “It’s
fractured, I should say—not disorganized. So fractured that one part
doesn’t know what the other part’s doing.”
But Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said that the United
States must take whatever steps necessary to ensure that Iran does not
procure a nuclear bomb.
“This is a suicidal nation,” he said. “It’s a terrorist nation.”
