Brzezinski bears more responsibility for the fact that the Iranian people are subjected to — and everyone else in the world is threatened by — an authoritarian Islamist regime than any single Westerner besides, perhaps, ex-President Carter. Eleven years ago, Brzezinski revealed the gaping breach in his brain through which the mullahs poured in 1979.I suppose he thought that a Shah Abbas type of Iran was better, with Shiite doctrines being able to fend of USSR.