Ex-Mossad chief: Iran protests could tear country apart into chaos

The ongoing protests in Iran could tear the country apart and lead to chaos, former Mossad director Tamir Pardo said Wednesday during a conference at Netanya Academic College.

“When we look at Iran, the nature of man since the dawn of history has been” to seek freedom and equality, he said.

Paraphrasing his paradigm for human beings everywhere, Pardo said, “I am not ready to have fewer rights and obligations than the person sitting next to me. In places where there isn’t freedom and equality, in the end, there is always tumult and the spilling of blood.

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“How does one come out of this? No one knows. It could lead to chaos and the tearing apart of the country.”

“There are situations, like in Libya, where until this day they have not emerged from this [internal civil wars], and the volume of blood spilled in the streets is enormous, and an entire generation has been lost,” he said. “In Syria, a full generation has  made statements against LGBT and other minority groups – may roll back aspects of Israel’s secular democracy in an unprecedented manner.

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