The idea, though understandable and repeatedly perpetrated, couldn't be more wrong.
Each of the challenges Rouhani cites at the outset of his piece: "terrorism, extremism, foreign military interference, drug trafficking, cybercrime, and cultural encroachment" sound like a list of grievances, when in fact the clerical regime currently ruling Iran has been credibly and repeatedly charged with perpetrating each of these misdeeds over the past three decades.
If Halevy and Obama really are right and the Iranian regime won't change its spots, then that means we are dealing with a regime which - as it has repeatedly stated - wants to destroy Israel and perpetrate genocide on all the world's Jews.
Pay money simply to perpetrate a fraud?
Islamic and other fanatics perpetrate merciless violence.
Hartzell wasn't the first to perpetrate this scam.
Armies don't perpetrate genocide anymore.
MSF, NNK and a number of other organisations have repeatedly reported and denounced violence perpetrated by the security forces in the Balkans, but Croatian police deny all the allegations.
Mr Soini repeatedly accused the government of perpetrating a fraud on the Finnish people, above all for, as he saw it, bailing out spendthrift countries of southern Europe.
They manipulate you into pretty much being addicted to them, so you repeatedly forgive whatever transgressions they perpetrated against you.
The Chinese government has repeatedly rejected accusations that it has perpetrated genocide or other widespread human rights abuses in Tibet, which came under the control of Communist Party forces from 1949.
