Henry Kissinger: Iran Is a Bigger Threat than ISIS

See Who Henry Kissinger Believes Is A Bigger Threat Than ISIL (Washington Free Beacon)

Before Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger weighed in on the ISIL threat, he stressed that the more dangerous enemy is Iran to an interview with NPR over the weekend.

There have come into being a kind of a Shia-belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire, this time under a Shia label. From a geo-strategic point of view, I consider Iran a bigger problem than ISIS. ISIS is a group of adventurers with a very aggressive ideology. But they have to conquer more and more territory before they can become a geo-strategic, permanent reality. I think a conflict with ISIS – important as it is – is more manageable than a confrontation with Iran.

Kissinger still cautioned that the United States still needs to plan a “a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American” and then to “set strategic objectives where we thwart any goal they set themselves.”