“Iran uses terrorism very instrumentally as an element of foreign policy; they are not just intent on just killing as many people as possible, like al Qaeda. There's no reason to believe that would change.” PeopleBelieveReasonPolicyKillingTerrorismForeign PolicyAl Qaeda Author:Kenneth M. Pollack
“More likely, there were probably some real divisions within the Iranian government - some groups wanted to ally with al Qaeda against us, others didn't want to have anything to do with that. So I think that debate resulted in no decision being made for awhile. The problem was they left the al-Qaeda folks in Iran in the hands of their intelligence services and Revolutionary Guard, who didn't really keep an eye on them - and may not have kept an eye on them on purpose.” ThinkingRealProblemEyePurposeDecisionDebateRevolutionaryAl QaedaIranian Author:Kenneth M. Pollack
