Pollack said he often heard Sunni Arab leaders express this as a metaphor.
"They would say, 'What is wrong with you people? You have this good, loving, loyal wife in us, and this crazy mistress in Iran. You don't understand how bad she is for you, and yet you endlessly run off to her the moment that she winks at you,'" he recounted.
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