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Iranian-American here ... I think the days where Americans hold anti-Iran sentiments are long past. At least, amongst educated types. There's a lot of curiosity
by cylinder 9y ago
Iranian-American here ... I think the days where Americans hold anti-Iran sentiments are long past. At least, amongst educated types. There's a lot of curiosity about Iranians and the culture. For example, I just went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas and was surprised to see an exhibit of contemporary Iranian art (i.e., modern art made by young artists recently living in Tehran, NYC, London, etc). The Iranian restaurants, even in Texas, are packed, and half the guests are non-Iranian, American born people.
Probably going through the experience of becoming jaded about our own government helped. We (USA) are now one of those countries where people have to say "don't look at the government, the people are decent." So people here with an ounce of curiosity about the world understand the same as to Iran. And then you have more people who even understand the role the US played in destabilizing Iran which put it on trajectory to its current regime.
- davidf18 9y agoIran supports terrorist organizations: both Hamas (considered by US, EU, and Israel as a terrorist organization) and Hezbollah (considered by US, Arab League, France, Canada, Israel, and the Gulf Cooperative Council as a terrorist organization. The military arm of Hezbollah is a terrorist org according to the entire EU). Iran is developing nuclear weapons that threaten not only Israel (where the govt. has said it will destroy Israel) but also Saudi Arabia, Gulf States, Egypt, Turkey which are Suni Muslim states -- Iran is Shia Muslim).
- davidf18 9y agoWhy down voting a true comment about Iran supporting terrorist organizations. If what I stated is not true, down vote and please correct me. I was a few miles from 9/11 when it happened. Please, never, never minimize terrorism nor state sponsorship of terrorist organizations.
- thr31238893 9y agoThat'd be like the Pilgrims calling the Native warriors 'terrorists' ... well 'barbarian'. I don't condone Hamas, nor do I care for Islam, but no one comes close to contemporary Israel when it comes to inhumane and brutal war-crimes. I mean to drop Phosphorous on armless people ? That should take some cruel heart. It's not just Israel, US used depleted Uranium in Iraq, and before that Napalm in Vietnam. The brutality and the mass silence towards such blatant war crimes is stunning.
- dang 9y agoThrowaway accounts used for political flamewar are particularly not ok here. Would you please not do that?
- danso 9y agoI work just hundreds of feet from Mirzakhani's office. She wasn't a terrorist.
- dang 9y agoThis is appallingly off-topic and you are vandalizing this thread with political flamewar. Please stop.
- aws_ls 9y agoI didn't down vote you, but you may find this[1] long read of how CIA and British Intelligence destabilized Iran in 1953. When its democratically elected President Mosadegh was trying to nationalize the Oil resources. Thereby setting a chain of events which might have set it a few decades back at least. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-...
- majidfn 9y agoTalking about 9/11, it was funded by Saudis and done by Saudis. Iran had nothing to do with it, and yet mr.PRESIDENT's first foreign visit was to Saudi Arabia. Doing all the weird sword dancing. Oil talks over security.
- aaomidi 9y agoSee this is the issue. When looking at the support of terrorist organizations, you need to look at it from both sides. America and NATO have waged wars in basically every neighbour of Iran except a few. They've been directly helping Saudi Arabia with selling them a crazy amount of weapons. Saudi Arabia is a state that has many times threatened Iran. All these support for different factions are a geopolitical game. Criticizing Iran for playing the game doesn't make sense as the second they stop their statehood is threatened. I just would like to add that I hope they stop, but I know why they don't. Now about the nuclear weapons. This is simply not the case anymore. Let's tackle what you said about that one by one. - Iran is developing nuclear weapons. - No they aren't. The agreement they made with 5+1 clearly puts Iran under a magnifying glass of scrutiny. The EU and the white house have said countless times that Iran is keeping their side of the deal up. - Threatening Israel. - This is true, however, Israel is the only country that hasn't signed the NPT. Yes they can technically make nuclear weapons now since they haven't committed to not making it, but at the same time saying Iran threatens them is an understatement. There have been dozens of Israeli officials that have threatened Iran with war. AIPAC has been seriously lobbying in the US to go to war with Iran. So it's not one sided, it's not like Israel is this shining rainbow and Iran is the evil fire nation. Let's stop looking at stuff in black and white.
- cylinder 9y agoAre you able to read with comprehension? It doesn't seem that way. I am talking about Iranian people, not the government. And don't make me pull out a list of atrocities committed by the US government.
- dang 9y ago> Are you able to read with comprehension? Regardless of your political proclivities, personal attacks like this will get you banned here. We've had to warn you about incivility before, so please don't post like this again.
- thr31238893 9y agoLet's hope this translates to on-ground political changes. The current neo-liberal plan for the decapitation of the Middle East does not bode well for the world.