https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/02/01/good-cops-and-bad-cops-in-iran-and-the-enviornment/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 14:15:30 -0400<![CDATA[Ahmadinejad, considered the Iranian bad cop, is said to be in (partial) eclipse these days. I don&#8217;t know if those rumors are true, but I suspect they don&#8217;t matter that much. The Iranian president seems to be doing his job and, more importantly, their nuclear program continues whether hardliners or &#8220;traditional conservatives&#8221; are running the show. A recent article in the NYT Magazine, apparently endorsing the Ahmadinejad-in-trouble line, curiously didn&#8217;t mention that nation&#8217;s nukes at all. Perhaps, like Chirac, they wanted to assure us that all is well and that even if the Iranians obtain nuclear weapons they wouldn&#8217;t use them. The mullahs are reasonable folks, we are to assume, and all this Twelfth Imam talk is just a side show. The writer of the NYT piece, Laura Secor, went her merry hijab-clad way across Iran (no Fallaci she), taking down notes from mullahs and regurgitating them as if the vevak and taqqiya did not exist.]]>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:27:37 -0500<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2007/02/01/good-cops-and-bad-cops-in-iran-and-the-enviornment-n213554