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@MISC{Falk_iranand,
author = {Avner Falk},
title = {Iran and the Bomb: A Psychoanalytic Study},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
During the past decade, the entire world has been preoccupied with the Iranian government’s attempts to obtain nuclear bombs. Such weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a fanatical and tyrannical religious regime which considers the “Western” world, and above all Israel and the United States, the embodiment of evil, and that has repeatedly declared its intention of wiping Israel off the map, seem to pose the most serious threat to world peace, if not to the very existence of our species, that exists today (alongside those of North Korea, Al-Qaeda and other fanatical rogue states and terrorist organizations). Nor are these terrible fears unrealistic. The Iranian regime is clearly bent on obtaining nuclear weapons and becoming a world power. It makes no secret of its wish to destroy Israel and punish America. The Italian journalist Arturo Diaconale has published a book about a nuclear holocaust involving a war between Iran and Israel (Diaconale 2006). The Middle East, of which Iran is part (and which it wants to dominate), is considered the most unstable, dangerous and volatile part of the world today. Gilles Keppel, a French scholar of the Arab and Islamic world, saw the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and attempted to interpret “the complex language of war, propaganda, and terrorism that holds the region in its thrall ” (Keppel 2004, 2005). How do we understand the fact that one Muslim regime threatens the security of our world and the existence of our species? There are several avenues to explore this problem: studying the minds of Islamic fanatics and terrorists (Falk 2008), attempting a psychobiography of President
Keyphrases
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