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From: Shahla Samii <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:57:06 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Iran Nuclear Program: Analysts Argue Nature of Regime Poses
Higher Risk 

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> Iran Nuclear Program: Analysts Argue Nature of Regime Poses Higher Risk
>
> By Ed Warner
>  Washington
> 29 November 2004
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> Listen to Ed Warner's report MP3
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> Ed Warner's report RA
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> Listen to Ed Warner's report RA
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>
> The regime of the mullahs in Iran is ready to fall, says Assad
> Homayoun. Let's give it a timely push.
>

> Assad Homayoun
>
> An Iranian opposition leader in the United States whose sources inside
> Iran may be second to none, Mr. Homayoun has little patience with
> efforts to conciliate or compromise with the government in Tehran.
>
>  Westerners, he insists, are misled by the religiously inclined but
> ineffectual reformists associated with President Khatami. The Iranian
> future does not lie with them, he says, but with the growing coalition
> of secular nationalist forces that favor democracy.
>
> "I believe that the solution is in the hands of the Iranian people,
> but the Iranian people need support," says Mr. Homayoun. "The United
> States should come enthusiastically, vigorously, openly in support of
> the Iranian people. President Bush supported Iranians before, but
> different voices from different branches of the administration
> confused the Iranian people."
>
> Mr. Homayoun writes in the CIPA journal: "What the secular force needs
> is legitimization through recognition - not financial or covert
> assistance but rather the unconditional moral and political support of
> the world democratic community."
>
> Mr. Homayoun traces the spread of Islamic militant fundamentalism to
> the regime in Iran. Remove that, he says, and you may stop the spread
> of terrorism as well.
>
> "Nothing will be peaceful in the Middle East," says Mr. Homayoun,
> "unless the government of Iran changes its position, but change of
> position means change of government from theocracy to secular
> democratic government."
>
> Mr. Homayoun says Tehran seeks nuclear weapons not so much to threaten
> other nations as
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>  
> Iran's nuclear plant
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> to shore up internal support for its own shaky government. In fact,
> citing the work of Washington strategic analyst Yossef Bodansky, he
> believes Iran already has acquired nuclear warheads from the Muslim
> areas of the former Soviet Union and possibly from North Korea.
>
> So the military option is out. An attack on Iran would have
> unfathomable consequences, he says, and besides, change must come from
> within untainted by material help from abroad. He writes in
> WorldTribune.com that if attacked, "Iran is advanced in various fields
> of WMD, and those weapons could fall into the hands of radicals and
> terrorist groups and create problems much more extensive than those
> today in Iraq."
>
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