Paul Pillar
Paul Pillar
Paul R. Pillar is an academic and 28-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, serving from 1977 to 2005. He is now a non-resident senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies, as well as a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution's Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence. He was a visiting professor at Georgetown University from 2005 to 2012. He is a contributor to The National Interest...
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The consensus analytic view was that there was a lot of dissatisfaction but that it didn't translate into a pre-revolutionary situation. Iran doesn't have the appetite for making another revolution. I think there has probably been more faith among the policy-makers in the prospects of true regime change than most of the analysts believe.
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Iran has lots of influence in southern Iraq. And they have not used it nearly as much as they can.
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Every audio or video tape is potentially traceable by intelligence services. We hope they will make a mistake, but they are extra cautious.