Friday, February 23, 2007

Voices of Reason?

Abbas Milani, the director of Iranian studies at Stanford and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, claims that the leading mullahs may be willing to suspend Iran's enrichment program. To me, what is surprising about this article is the fact that the author is affiliated with the right-leaning Hoover Institution, which, you would think, would make him an advocate of attacking Iran. Far from it, Milani believes that an attack would backfire by isolating us and strengthening Iran.

He concludes, "With prudence, backed by power but guided by the wisdom to recognize the new signals coming from Tehran, the United States can today achieve a principled solution to the nuclear crisis."

Oh, he also reports that at least two leading mullahs acknowledge the reality of the Holocaust.

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