What kind of people are rushing to join jihadi organisations? Where are they coming from? What is their family and educational background? And most importantly, what motivates them?

Iran believes that West’s attitude towards Iran under the system of Waliat-e Faqih will continue to be so even after the nuclear issue has been resolved. It is not the nuclear issue; it is the regime that’s at stake.

Let’s also take some time to point out the whole David Coleman Headley aka Daood Gilan fiasco. Headley attended LeT training camps in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003. He was in India on five different occasions in 2006, 07 and 08.

Any US withdrawal from Afghanistan would create another delusion. A false conclusion that Islam has won and USA lost. It would boost morale in the Islamists and would lead to far greater chaos.

The distinction between Islamist and non Islamists is being fast transformed into US versus Anti US Forces.

Like most movements of the 20th Century that adopted what is called Political Islam as its calling card, the Kashmir militancy too collapsed under its own weight.