The bogey of Pax Iranica
Husain Haqqani, whose byline always emphasises that he was Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US, recently wrote an article for The Huffington Post where he sounded the alarm against what he calls the “Pax Iranica” or the Iranian Empire, playing deliberately on ancient prejudices of both the Arabs and the west. He chose to do so at a time when the Iran deal promises to change the very nature of US-Muslim engagement. One does not defend the theocratic regime in the Islamic Republic of Iran to recognise that the comparison that Haqqani draws ...
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