Roger Cohen is in pursuit of The Most Irresponsible Columnist award. His take on Iran, its Jewish population, and its pursuit of a nuclear weapon hews close enough to reality to avoid being labeled delusional but constitute more an exercise in fantasizing than critical analysis.
Cohen relates a meeting he had with Iranian Jews, who were furious with him for minimizing the threat of Iran to Israel and for overstating how comfortable life for Jews is in the Islamic Republic.
He prints the statements of several and then departs from the meeting to opine about "the hawks' [whose] case against Iran depends on a vision of an apocalyptic regime." This transition is so quick that the reader is inclined to just move along with him. But the problem here is that he seeks to blend the testimony of Iranian Jews into the viewpoint of "the hawks." Although there may be overlap between the two groups, this merger is a tactical move by Cohen to dismiss the views of the former group.
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