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April 26, 2007

Peter Hitchens in Iran

Peter Hitchens recently took a ten-day trip to Iran, and has written down his observations in three articles which are worth reading:

      Persian Diary Part 1 (April 23)
      Persian Diary Part 2 (April 25)
      Mail on Sunday article on Iran (April 21)

Hitchens is sympathetic to most of the Iranians, as distinguished from their régime, seeing them as "our natural ally in the Middle East" (possibly forgetting about the existence of Israel here). He believes the régime may fall provided that Iran is not attacked from outside. He may, however, be so anxious to avoid war with Iran that he evades the question of what to do in the event that Iran does succeed in acquiring nuclear weapons.

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