Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, expert on Iran at the European Foundation For Democracy, about consequenses of interreligious warfare in Iran.
A war will have internal consequences too. As you know the Bahai Community, this is a religious minority in Iran, is suppressed in a very extreme way. And the war would have the consequence that the political system of Iran could eliminate, and I think they would do it, eliminate the whole Bahai Community in the first three or four weeks of the war. The whole community is identified through the years and they would bring them to the prisons and eliminate them. And for sure the Jewish community in Iran is in danger too.
And from the point of view of this totalitarian dictatorship, if we analyze it, they would deal and answer in the same way as they did with the Iranian people for the last 33 years. They eliminated the whole secular potential of Iran, from socialist to nationalist. Even the national religious opposition was eliminated. They are now refugees or they were executed in Iran, or they went underground. We have not to forget that the system will answer in a way that will not only have consequences for Europe but even for the Iranian society. And this would mean that for sure they will get much more suppressive as we know it after these 33 years.
This does not mean, as I said, that it would be wise to stop the sanctions. I think the sanctions have to go on. And in the question of war, I think nobody in this world knows how an attack on Iran could end but there are options which are very pessimistic.
(The Voice of Russia)
