“Tehran will ultimately have to decide, Kissinger has noted, whether the Islamic Republic is a country or a cause.”
“Kissinger’s terms. More and more people see Iran’s interests are best served if we can find a way that Iran as a cause and Iran as a nation-state will be complementary, rather than in conflict, so that we won’t have to choose.”
“He stopped himself. “I gotta be careful,” he said. “I want to take one step at a time. I don’t want to predict a future that, in and of itself, becomes an impediment to achieving it.””