sup america

iranian here.
please, tell your people not to bomb the stuff we build, we will not harm you or the people in judea.
promise, we won't.

umm... ur done

I think you should concentrate on becoming a 1st world egalitarian democracy instead of a bunch of feudal age screaming mullahs.


Just saying.

I think it's a shame how the Iranian/American relationship has deteriorated. I think that the blame for this lies on both countries shoulders. While I don't claim to know everything about the situation and there's quite a few ins and outs to it here's my understanding of the current state of affairs:

America's involvement with Israel has created a rift in it's relationship to the entire Middle East. While we have been actively trying to encourage Israel for years to make peace with the Palestinians and accept a two-state policy, Israel has repeatedly goes back on its previous agreements and has flaunted any request to halt settlement building in Palestinian communities. All the while, Israel maintains that all of the Middle East, Iran especially, is out to get them in an effort to wrap themselves tighter under our security blanket. Our relationship to Israel is poisoning our attempts to engage in any kind of nuclear nonproliferation agreement with Iran, which is one of our main foreign policy goals. America needs to be stern with Israel and pressure them into making real efforts at peace with Palestine, but if Israel refuses to comply then America needs to discontinue its support of Israel and if need be, be willing to impose economic sanctions.

Iran on the other hand, is one of the most powerful and well developed countries in the Middle East. They have the potential to be a powerful ally or a formidable foe.Their population is well educated and the people are imbued with a strong sense of the democratic ideal. I think their biggest problem at the moment is bad governance. They are stuck with a regime that refuses to yield power and has fixed elections and oppressed its people to further this aim. Their current leader seems to be a radical/fundamentalist despot who claims to enrich uranium with the purpose of developing civilian nuclear power, while it's completely obvious from his fanatical rants that his real aim is obtaining a nuclear weapon. I feel that the people of Iran are suffering for their leader's obduracy and inability to actively engage the international community in meaningful constructive dialog. Thus economic sanctions have been imposed on Iran for not complying with the international laws governing the use and possession of nuclear materials. I fear that Iran is on track to follow North Korea into the dark world of total isolation if this regime is allowed to continue.

American here, I'll tell my government to stop putting sanctions against you in an attempt to try to go to war and expand this faux "war on terror" bullshit. I doubt they'll actually listen though.

i should hope they have enough sense not to listen to you

>>6
Who're you speaking to? You didn't cite any post.

>>5
is cited in
>>6

the sanctions aren't "war on terror" related. the bush years are over so that bullshit is done for. the sanctions are strictly related to their non-compliance with IAEA investigations into their nuclear facilities and their continued enrichment of uranium despite international laws prohibiting nuclear proliferation.
i will admit though, that i did take your words out of context and for that i do apologize. I think that we're probably on the same page.

it would help if you stopped acting all crazy like

>>9
I see. However, if people think that increased sanctions will actually cool down or topple the regime in Iran, they're sadly mistaken. In fact, it will have the opposite effect of uniting the nation with the regime and will give them the incentive to actually build a nuclear weapon.

As for the "war on terror", Obama certainly has inherited it, and expanded upon it by a troop surge in Afghanistan. Perhaps it's not as hyped up as it was during the Bush years, but it's still bullshit and it's still here.

Also, thank you.

We should flood them with McDs and Levis Jeans like we did with the soviet union.

this dude sounds legit

Pedobear calls bullshit. 12/f/Iran?

PEDOBEAR SAYS "FUUUUCK NAH"

>>12
is that you tom friedman?