Gary Sick of Columbia University responds to a question from Carnegie Council Senior Fellow David Speedie on the attention given to Iran during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign by Dennis Ross and others. Ross was appointed Special Adviser on the Gulf region, including Iran and Southwest Asia, on February 24, 2009.
This Carnegie Council interview took place on November 5, 2009. For the complete video, audio, and transcript, go to http://www.cceia.org
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