The West's blindness regarding Iran

Commenting on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran being celebrated today, Thursday, the left-liberal daily La Repubblica hopes that the US has learned its lesson on how to handle Iran: "The constant factor in the three decades in which the world has changed and the new threat of extremism and Islamist terrorism has taken the place of the Cold War has been the difficulties of the US and its allies in understanding Iran's moves. The great Persian nation has become an uncontrollable and destabilising factor on the international chessboard. ... Documents from the archives of the British secret service reveal [at the beginning of the Revolution] an insecure and divided US government in which the military didn't speak to the politicians and even took the initiative without consulting them. This is how the superpower tackled the Iran crisis back then and this is how it lost it. Let us hope that since then it has learned how to better master the challenges from Tehran."

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