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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

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Rouzy
May 01, 2026
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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 …

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