Iran: You Don’t Negotiate with a Snake
The fall of the Islamic Republic would constitute the most significant geopolitical transformation since the collapse of the Berlin Wall - writes Rouzy Vafaie
You don’t reason with something whose incentives are fixed. You don’t compromise with a force that survives by your submission - or calls for your death, as political leaders in the Islamic Republic of Iran have done for forty-seven years.
Sir Winston Churchill famously said, “you cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.” Because negotiation assumes common ground, and there is none between the Islamic Republic, the United States of America and in fact the entire free world.
This reality becomes even more relevant after the month-long joint US-Israeli onslaught on the Islamic Republic.
Many inside Iran were shocked, sad and worried what would happen to them if the Islamic Republic continues to control Iran and there is a permanent peace with the United States.
The reasons are long, terrifying and seemingly changing by the hour.
