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"You can't bomb knowledge," said Robert Litwak, Director of the Division of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars bombing Iran's nuclear sites will not deter future technological developments US military action would only trigger major responses worldwide, a worsening of the fragile state of Iraq and "a rally around the flag effect in Iran." Washington will need to recognize that "what is politically serious in Washington is politically insignificant in Tehran." What the US has previously viewed as a big step toward normalization, such as allowing the importation of pistachios and carpets, has little weight political figures have not recognized the need to use sensitive language Iran has expressed its disdain for phrases such as "carrots and sticks," that the US has repeatedly used this mistranslates to say that the US plans to deal with Iran as a donkey, either reward it with carrots or beat it into submission. "This will backfire on us," |
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