the second major problem is mistrust. but mistrust is mutual. americans and the western countries, they need to understand why iran cannot trust the west. they have their own legitimate reasons. like americans and western countries, they cannot trust iran, iranians also they should understand why. being here i thought maybe that the most important job i can do to write a book on the nuclear issue as far as the nuclear issue is the issue number one. for the u.s. and the international community to present it the way the prospective and point of view of the iranians for american public opinion and politicians. to facilitate a possible peaceful solution for iranian nuclear crisis. there are a number of other questions, and you allude to this, related to trust. what do you say to those americans who argue that iran a deal with iran is really useless? that the iranian government cannot be trusted, cannot be relied upon to fulfill its promises? and other people say a deal with i
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something that is repeated also in these captured document and elsewhere. the high command of something they hoped would be bigger. and which since about 2005/2006, has begun to live up to these aspirations of the 1990s. they set out to create, which you call franchises, but they actually call branches of their organization. they believe that those branches are an integral part of their organization, are carrying out their orders. they re not off there on their own, they believe. simply conquering territory and doing all kinds of things they shouldn t do. at least that s what they thoug thought until zarqawi came along and suddenly they couldn t count on these guys to agree with them in a sort of general way about objectives, to agree with them about the strategies to go about achieving these, because zarqawi was a huge lesson to them in what happens if you don t have tighter command and control. so before about 2005, 2006, they were slowly creating something. and then zarqaw
the one thing i couldn t answer is how is he going to do this from a cave in northern werestan. as soon as i heard there were these fiber optic connections, that answer an awful lot, too. you don t have to depend, perhaps, on some kind of courier system. there could be other methods for this. i d like to finish by saying this is not a terrorist group but the headquarters are high command of something that is attempting to become or is in the process of becoming a global insurgency has an awful lot of policy implications, some of which are tremendously unpalatable. i don t believe you should ignore what reality is telling you because, one, you can t afford it or, two, you just don t like what reality is telling you. the fact that we can t afford to carry out a global counterinsurgency should not make us aflinch from recognizing at least the scope of the problem we re dealing with. so i understand that there are tremendous policy implications from everything iemg saying and tha
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