Cole: Iranian public very friendly towards US
[the first part of this is not what we’ve been hearing from Cde Yoshie]
Well, the Iranian public is very pro-American, and it’s one of the
few publics in the Middle East, I think, that would reform, if it
could, in a way that was friendly to U.S. interests. If the United
States goes into a frontal confrontation with Iran, however, it will
push the Iranian public away. The Iranians are very nationalistic and
they don’t want to be dominated by the U.S.