Personally I like the Iranians, and Ahmadi-nejad. First the US overthrew their elected Prime Minister in 1953 and gave them an asshole torturing despot for 25 years before the people rose up and tossed him out.
Then they fought Saddam Hussein from 1980 to 1989, and would have defeated him totally if it weren't for the US helping him out to prevent it.
Then in 2001 after everything the US has done to them they get branded part of the "axis of evil" even though they've never done a damn thing to threaten the US.
After that they found themselves completely and totally surrounded by US military forces all around them on every side. US and Israeli covert operators are everywhere in Iran trying to destablize them and killing whoever they want. Then the US and Israel stage pychops against them claiming falsely that they were behind a plan to kill a Saudi diplomat in New York, and to blow up a bus in Bulgaria -- all bullshit.
They've held their own pretty well all things considered.
And everything the US and Israelis have done to them recently has only made the nationalists there all the stronger....and the democatic opposition much weaker.
Originally Posted by theaustinescorts
Eisenhower installed the Shah as a way of preventing the spread of communism. The Iranians were better off under the Shah than the Ayatollah Khomeini and Ahmadinejad.
The Iranians are the biggest source of Islamic terrorism in the world. They support Hamas and Hezbollah. They are an enemy of America's best ally in the world, Israel. That makes them an enemy to America and to every patriotic American.
From Politico.Com:
Iran's trail of terror
Not since the fall of the Soviet Union has any nation so aggressively pursued alliances with bad actors in so many places worldwide, acknowledged Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA officer who focused primarily on Iran. “Their outreach is bolder than it used to be” and is “pretty disturbing” given “their proclivity for nefarious activity.”
Late last month, Rep. Peter King, (R-N.Y.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, told Congress: “Most disturbingly, we learned” that “there are hundreds of Hezbollah operatives already inside this country” including some who were apprehended “with military training and combat experience in Lebanon.”
“The regime, since its earliest days, has been on a mission,” Gerecht said. “They really do see a clash of civilizations, and they see themselves as the cutting edge for one side, the Muslim side. And for them, the first cut for dividing the world is: ‘Are you opposed to the United States? Are you the enemy of the U.S.?’ If so, the Iranians will look upon you fondly.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories...048_Page3.html