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Dagan: Iran attack will only bolster Tehran regime

By JPOST.COM STAFF

MAY 30, 2012 18:50

An Israeli attack on Iran over the latter nation's nuclear program will only bolster the Iranian regime in the eyes of the Iranian people, former Mossad Meir Dagan said Tuesday.

"An attack will only create a reality where all Iranians will stand behind the regime," Dagan said during his address at the Institute for National Security Studies' annual conference, this year focusing on Israeli opportunities in a turbulent region.

Dagan said he supported Amos Yadlin, the former IDF chief of military intelligence who heads the INSS, in his conviction that the best strategy to counter any ambition in Tehran to develop a nuclear bomb is to exert political and economic pressure on Iran.

Such pressure, in the form of sanctions and negotiations that the West has largely adopted as the means to approach the issue of Tehran's nuclear program, will eventually cause a rupture in the wide Iranian support of their government, and could in turn push the ayatollahs "to do something against the worldview," like compromise or become complicit to Western demands.

Dagan cited the end of the Iran-Iraq war - in which Iran lost at least 100,000 soldiers - and Tehran's negotiations with Baghdad, as proof that domestic pressure Iranian regime can push Tehran to make concessions on its policies.

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