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Political scientist and philologist Marina Diaz Sanz Murcia participate this Tuesday, at 19:00 in the Pedre駉 Palace in the series of lectures at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) 'Islamic World' to talk about Iran, about which he is completing a doctoral thesis focused on the image Spaniards have of this Islamic Republic which, following agreement on its nuclear program, is leaving the international ostracism.
路 How much has changed Iran's role on the world stage?
路 When I started the thesis confrontation with Iran was exacerbated, but by adopting a long-term perspective shows that the current situation is not so exceptional.
There have always been many reasons for the international community to approach Iran and vice versa.
路 Although it was part of the so-called Axis of Evil?
路 That the conflict began in 2002. Ironically, it was the US intervention that strengthened Iran, defeating his two neighbors enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
As it is paradoxical that the nuclear program which re-launched the controversial Ahmadinejad began in the 50s with US support.
路 Has detente influenced the Islamic State as a common enemy?
路 Clearly it causes less fear a state like Iran which can reach agreements that a self caliphate that violates all laws and has dynamited international borders between Syria and Iraq, on the other hand, were arbitrary.
路 The Syrian war is a conflict between Sunnis and Shiites and between Iran and Saudi Arabia?
路 There are more fiction than reality in countries split between Shiites and Sunnis.
What counts are the geopolitical alliances, as evidenced by the support of Iran to the Sunni Hamas.
For the Iranians, rather than maintaining Al-Asad, are interested in survival of a regime akin to the balance of power in the region is not disturbed.
What determines recelemos Iran, not Saudi Arabia is its alliance with the United States.
路 How is it that he had not noticed before the stabilizing role of Iran?
路 Europe has always been present but has no power to impose the will of confrontation the United States, which has long exploited conflicts in the collective imagination as the taking of hostages.
An example is the film "Argo", which presents the Iranians as irrational.
路 What vision Spaniards have on Iran?
路 We have many misconceptions.
For starters, to identify it as an Arab country.
We see gray, plunged into the aesthetics of martyrdom, with total absence of democracy and devoted entirely to religion.
It's funny, because Iran evokes fundamentalism while its previous name, Persia, evokes exotic and oriental sensuality.
The truth is that it has an overwhelming cultural wealth, a society tremendously educated and curious, wanting to know them and understand them as we stop terrorists.
Source: UPCT
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