...So if we look at how do west deal with the nuclear problem with Iran, there really is no amount of economic sanctions or economic inducements that is going to change Iran's calculation that it needs to compensate for its lack of strategic depth in order to protect itself not from Israel but from Pakistan Sunni bomb, and wahhabi threat.
The task before US is now to take stock of the reality in middle-east and to build relationship with middle-east with that reality in mind.
Iran's borders are mostly land borders with countries that are hostile to it. It perceives all of its fifteen neighbors as strategic threats. Even its relationship with Syria is looked at as tactical, not strategic. To give it the strategic depth that it otherwise doesn't have, Iran pursues an asymmetric national security strategy. Ironically, the majority of Irans enemies are Arab and Muslim Sunni rulers surrounding her from all directions nervous of Iran's influence in the region.
It's interesting how his name is SO fitting...Mr. Sick is an opportunist and a pimp.
PlanetIran 7 months ago
...So if we look at how do west deal with the nuclear problem with Iran, there really is no amount of economic sanctions or economic inducements that is going to change Iran's calculation that it needs to compensate for its lack of strategic depth in order to protect itself not from Israel but from Pakistan Sunni bomb, and wahhabi threat.
The task before US is now to take stock of the reality in middle-east and to build relationship with middle-east with that reality in mind.
talk2u2c 3 years ago
Iran's borders are mostly land borders with countries that are hostile to it. It perceives all of its fifteen neighbors as strategic threats. Even its relationship with Syria is looked at as tactical, not strategic. To give it the strategic depth that it otherwise doesn't have, Iran pursues an asymmetric national security strategy. Ironically, the majority of Irans enemies are Arab and Muslim Sunni rulers surrounding her from all directions nervous of Iran's influence in the region.
talk2u2c 3 years ago