An
Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program will neither completely stop
Teheran’s nuclear march, nor bring down the ayatollahs’ regime,
according to former Swiss ambassador to Iran Tim Guldimann.
Speaking
to The Jerusalem Post on the
sidelines of this week’s Herzliya Conference, Guldimann, who knows the
Iranian way of thinking well, expressed – as a personal opinion – his
deep concern about the military option against Iran.
Guldimann
was Swiss ambassador to Iran and Afghanistan from 1999 to 2004. As
ambassador to Teheran, Guldimann – now senior adviser and head of the
Middle East Project at the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva –
represented US interests in Iran, acting as a go-between. He gained
notoriety for a memorandum he transmitted to the US in 2003, which
posited an alleged Iranian proposal for a broad dialogue with the US,
with everything on the table – including full cooperation on nuclear
programs, acceptance of Israel and the termination of Iranian support
for Palestinian armed groups. The proposal was rejected by the Bush
administration.
According to Guldimann, the position that unless
the international community stops Iran’s nuclear program, Israel would
have to do it alone is based on the unproven assumption th… >>>
