One of the allegations made constantly against Iran, and in order to raise the hype against Iran, is this constant harping on the fact that Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, but the reality is the world is not concerned with the largest state sponsor of terrorism, because the biggest worry, the biggest menace in the area of terrorism comes not from states but non-state actors like ISIS and Al Qaeda.

Mehrdad Khonsari

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Iran has over a trillion dollars-worth of projects that require external investment, so it’s a huge market, and given an opportunity to participate in this, it would be difficult for someone like Trump to refuse.

Mehrdad Khonsari

President Trump made an overt gesture to the current leaders of Iran for them to come and make an offer to him to start negotiating a new deal, so if you were hopeful that as a consequence of Trump’s actions you would be seeing the back of the regime, you were disappointed.

Mehrdad Khonsari

The regime in Iran seems bent on wanting to secure the election of a hardliner and in particular Mr. Raisi.

Mehrdad Khonsari

This assures that the leadership in the 'deep state,' that were something to happen to Ayatollah Khamenei in the next four to eight years, elements supportive of their interests will be in key places to control the future of Iran.

Mehrdad Khonsari

I think the most important thing to point out is the fact that there was a tendency on the part of the Rouhani government, figures such as Foreign Minister Zarif, to want to improve ties with Western Europe or with the United States.

Mehrdad Khonsari