Scholar: MAD doctrine does not apply to Iran
JERUSALEM — Iran could welcome a nuclear war with Israel or the United States.
A leading U.S. scholar on the Middle East has asserted that Iran’s leadership does not resemble the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Bernard Lewis, a professor at Princeton University, said the mullah regime in Teheran believes that the Shi’ite messiah would be ushered by a nuclear war.
“It’s not an Arab country, but rather a Muslim country, ruled now by a Muslim theocracy, which calculates its policies not by Iranian national interests, but by what is good for Islam,” Lewis said.