An Insider View Of Iran -- A Commentary

If You Shoot at a King You Must Kill Him -- Michael J. Totten, Commentary Magazine

Last week I spoke with Reza Kahlili, a man who during the 1980s and 1990s worked for the CIA under the code name "Wally" inside the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. He wrote a terrific book about his experience as an American agent called A Time to Betray, and today he's issuing a serious warning about his former Iranian masters: they mean what they say, and the West had better start taking them seriously.

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My Comment: An ominous and worrisome analysis on what is happening in Iran. A part of me (my intellectual side) says that .... no way .... the Iranian leadership is not that nuts. But my heart sees the opposite .... it sees the Shiite faith telling them that they must continue pursuing a nuclear weapons program that will herald a new age for Iran and for its people. That destiny is on their side .... and to satisfy their own religious convictions they must now fulfill prophecy.

I hope my heart is wrong.