Iran talks: an idiotic gift to nuclear folly
Il Giornale, may 18, 2012
A petite brunette, with enticing almond eyes, a heart-shaped mouth, and a silky voice, Saba Farzan is an Iranian young intellectual living in Germany. A feminist, a prominent person, founder of the blog Transatlantic Perspectives, she also writes for the Wall Street Journal. Intervening last Monday at a Conference in Rome with a panel of brilliant experts (Ottolenghi, Leeden, Dore Gold, Massari) her childlike voice mesmerized the audience, as she explained quietly yet desperately what the talks on the Iran's nuclear program - which will soon resume in Baghdad on the 23 rd - will result in. Mrs Ashton and whoever, will pretend expectations they do not have, while the Iranian negotiators will profusely smile, determined to buy time and leave the stage with another scheduled appointment.
If you read the novels by the American writer Paul Auster - Saba Farzan explains - they usher you to the end, and when the end falls on the reader, you are left with a thousand unanswered questions. But what about him, and her, and the future … ? Please Paul, don't go, please tell me how will it end up? At each single round of talks with Iran coming to an end we will be left wondering like fools, while the Iranians will go back home and continue to enrich uranium.
On the contrary, a 2005 novel, The Brooklyn Follies, does come to a conclusion. This story ends as a matter of fact with September 11's attack to the Twin Towers.
Violence, relentless ideological hatred, thousands of victims of the Islamic extremist folly. This - says Saba in her childlike voice to a speechless audience - is the conclusion of the talks: after an additional time gain, Ahmadinejad's nuclear bomb. Nothing will be as it used to be. She adds: If you asked average people in Iran whether they would prefer another 30 years of ayatollah's regime or that the nuclear plants be bombed, you would be completely wrong if you reckoned they would prefer the hell of the regime. Keep that in mind - Saba said.