Iran: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery
March 27, 2007
Emanuel Shahaf
WINSTON Churchill’s 1939 comment about the Soviet Union can aptly be applied to Iran today. Is Iran irrational, pragmatic, crazy pragmatic? Is it on the defensive with the only remaining superpower as its central adversary, wanting to create a credible deterrence against it, or is it on the offensive trying to gain regional dominance through the development of nuclear