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Article: Iran and deception modalities: the reach of taqiyya, kitman, khod'eh and taarof.
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- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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This article continues the study and implications of the critical role of Iranian deception modalities (1) in Iranian-Shi'ite political discourse, especially in relation to the 20-year clandestine development of Iran's nuclear programme.
Taqiyya (religiously-sanctioned deception or dissimulation to conceal one's true intentions and beliefs), kitman (deception) and khod'eh (trickery or claiming one's true position by half-truths rather than outright lies or deception) are deception techniques inherent in Iranian statecraft and nuclear negotiations with the Europeans and the United States.
Taarof is a form of deception through diversion of meaning from the ...