I think that iranians new governmwnt and specially their new president are kind and good peoples (you can find out that from their face) I think that us has bad idea about iran \nwhats your idea?
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Assuming your are an American, what government sanctioned child abuse center, aka public school, did you attend?\n\nIran has pledged to wipe Israel off the map and drive them into the sea.  Is this what you call a "kind and good people"?
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I'm glad someone noticed that! Especially about the religious president - although I definitely agree with the list above as well. It's a bit scary, isn't it?\n\nThe main difference, though, is that a lot of your fellow citizens agree with you that it's not a good thing... No, actually, I don't know what Iranians think about it, so what I just said is stupid. Plus, they don't have the same privileges Americans have.\n\nPS: I hope this is not going to come off as anti-American. I'm not. It's just that there are things I don't like in your country - just like there are things that I don't like in mine or in any country!\n\nAs for Europe being a continent of "godless hedonism"... Well, do you even know what hedonism means? Do you say that because we have naked women on TV and on billboards? Come on!
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Wow, kucitizenx! You aren't really that naive, are you? When has Iran EVER told the truth in the past? I'm happy to have a president that doesn't sell nuclear secrets to people who hate America, like the last president we had.\n\nAs to the actual question posed, I don't think there is a true diplomatic solution. They talk, they don't talk, they argue until they're blue in the face, but nobody ever resolves things. The people who talk aren't the ones who suffer. Diplomatic is just another word for aristocratic, isn't it?
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Extremists who hate everything America stands for.  Run by people who want to build and use nuclear weapons. Hotbed of terrorism, which started with the abduction of the American hostages in 1980.  But still, we allow Iranians to come to our country to study, practice medicine and make better lives for themselves.  In gratitude, they want to kill us.  Nice people.  Warm and cuddly, huh?  How do you think we should think about you given your history and attitude toward the United States?
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I saw this same question asked over and over again by different persons at Y!A.... \nWhy???!!!\n\n\nI wonder what is it about Iran that you think we people outside Iran do not know but should know? You tell us...please!
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I am also an iranian like you i always thought why we dont must to have open relation with other countries like US or israel but when i came to this site and i study about them more and more i found that they dont  have good intention toward iran and iranian just look the most Q&A that they write in this site about iran and iranian its not hard to find whats wrong and whats right just read them and compare it with what u see around yourself most of thing they write is just a mere lie u can contact me if u dont believe it i prove u what kind of people are the ones who complain about iran and iranian just know one thing dear iranian are one of the best people in the world with best culture  and i m really proud to be an iranian live with iranian culture \nno matter if some thing goes wrong be sure the one is best for us is our president not bush \nRAISE YOUR HEAD AND TELL I M AN IRANIAN AND BE THE PRIDE OF OUR COUNTRY !!
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Well Iran has been wanting to talk with the US for a while now.  When the Pres of Iran wrote his letter to Bush he said that he would love to talk to the US to discuss options.  Yet we just blew him off and talked about military options.  We make Iran to be this big bad guy but if we were to just listen to what they really say instead of listen to what just the media and our own govt tell us...we'd understand it better.
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The problem in Iran is that the hard liners have power of the government, and have blocked moderates from taking any hold there in. The majority of Iranians do not wish to be governed by the hard liners, but its not uncommon for a minority to have power.
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I assume you're being kind. The Iranian leadership represents the worst aspects of ANY government's international policy in recent memory - and I'm an old geezer. Anyone can (rationally) oppose the anti-palestinian policies of the Israeli right-wing, but the madness coming out of Ahmadinejad's mouth is alarming REGARDLESS of where you find youself on the issue.\n\nResponsible Muslims I know further understand that those policies can easily lead to a conflagration in which the only sure losers will be Muslims, the vast majority of whom do not wish to be the designated martyrs of these zealots.\n\nThank you from bringing up the question.
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I don't think Iran should be invaded by the U.S. because if you notice, this is why the United States is facing so many problems now-they've been trying to invade too many countries and change them into a replica of us!  Have you noticed that ever since Bush came into office our country has been plagued with so many hardships.  Lives are lost unnecessarily and gas prices are ridiculous! The U.S. should leave Iran (and any other country for that matter) alone! Can we please just have some peace and get along?!
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Everybody hates him. The reform minded majority population in Iran hates him. The hardliners think he's a wuss & stupid for bringing the world down on them. Everyone outside Iran thinks he's insane & bringing the world to war. Personally, I think his timing could be better for us, but it's good to have a person that will force us to take action to remove the theocratic govt of Iran & let the reformers take over as they see fit. Unlike Iraq, it would be smashing the hardline military force & most combat power (equipment) then getting out & containing the internal fight that would make Iran & the world a better place when the reformers win.
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My two cents worth:\n\nI totally agree. You get it - however, apparently, a lot of people don't.\n\nMahmoud Ahmadinejad is a fanatical religous hardliner who supports his own terror organization, the revolutionary guards, along with Hezbollah, Humas and the whole concept of Jihad.\n\nHe has made it clear that Israel is "the little devil" and must be anninilated. You can only guess who the "big devil" is.\n\nHis country practically floats on oil, yet he wants "nuclear fuel for peaseful purposes."\n\nHis rise to power also means that the real power in Iran will lie more than ever in the hands of the Shiite clergy and their supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Nice.\n\nTheir demented ideology has made their objectives very clear and their tactics of murder and maiming thousands of innocent victims, for the most part, have not been met with the responce they deserve.\n\nThe civilized nations apparently don't rise up because of internal pressure and discontent from the "idiots" you allude to in your question.\nI suspect most of them were skipping history classes and decorating their VW busses with flower decals while the United States was bleeding in Viet Nam.\n\nLook at the hatred and unwarrented critisim leveled at Bush in America for FINNALLY responding to the acts of war that these Islamic dirt bags have perpretrated against the United States since 1979.\n\nThe United States and its allies are the Islamic terrorists' last hurdle. Iraq is the center of this war on terror. Iran knows this. Syria knows this. The terrorists know this. All of the Muslim nations know this - why don't we know this?\n\nNegotiations is not an option with these psychos.\nLeast we forget that Carter tried diplomacy and negotiations with these radicals for fourteen months while they held American hostages - and, during WWII, France was still debating and still looking for proof that Hitler was actually a threat to Europe - when their proof came marching into Paris wearing swazika arm bands. And, then, there's Chamberlain with his "peace in our time" rhetoric after his negotiations with Hitler. \nGreat Britain remembers - apparently, France does not. For all intent and purpose, Spain was defeated when they withdrew their troops after the terrorist train bombings.\n\nThese people want world denomination under Islamic rule - they woud cut you head off just to make another video - all the while, we debate their "rights" as detainees, cut and run policies and somehow think this threat will disappear if we just stop antagonizing them.\n\nWake up, people - America is not the bad guy here. \n\n"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."   Albert Einstein\n\nArgue with Albert Einstein's logic - if you feel up to the task.
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we will never know.  the iranian government is one of many (too many) that pretty much says what its citizens will believe.  they have no alternative.  oh there is the occasional protest, but nothing like what we enjoy in america (i am assuming that you are in america too).  So even if they do not agree with their president, they have no real opportunity to do anything about it.\n\nps- i'm sorry, i just read the part about you only wanting opinions from iranians.  hope it's ok if i just leave this here...
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Truth be told I don't think they are pushing their luck.  Truth is while Bush is trying, he isn't a very fast thinker on his feet.  He has the intelligence, but not the speed of mind that the leader of Iran has.  Ahmadenijad is very quick and very intelligent.  He is probably faster than anyone in our current presidential administration (though Cheney is probably as fast on his feet his arguments are so illogical and to a point dictatorial that he has trouble convincing others that Ahmadenijad is the more dangerous between the two of them), and so he can embarass America quite well.\n\nIt makes me wish for Colin Powell back.  I think he was probably the only one ever associated with this adminstration that could hold his own with Ahmadenijad and win.\n\nYou also asked if they are pushing their luck.  I assume this means that you feel they are taking on someone (in America) that may be too big for them.  I don't think so.  America has too many troops in Iraq, and has to hold back too many in reserve against the possibility of attack by Venezuela or North Korea for sure, and maybe even Russia or China (though these two have enough problems of their own to keep them busy I think) to present any real threat of attack against Iran.\n\nAbout the only available force to attack Iran would be the Navy, which while not impossible is highly unlikely to produce any real chance of taking out the Iranian government and therefore to win the war.  Bush also would have no support from anyone in America if he tried to do anything other than diplomacy with Iran (at least until after he has gotten out of Iraq).  Even then he'd have some serious problems raising any real support for himself in that one (though if we were out of Iraq he could do a better job of doing so).  \n\nI believe Iran is playing their hand very well, and America not so much.  That's why they do so much better on the world political scene right now.
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I think Iranian government(which is separate from its people) is developing Nuke Weapons (in their own words) to promote Islam in other countries. This is one of their goals. I think U.S and other countries must be aware that this regime doesn't care about it's own people, and so they don't care about anyone in the world. \nIran is one of the richest oil nations, but look how their citizens are living!!!! all the money form oil exports are in their own bank accounts in foreign countries.\nDo you know how many political prisoners are in prisons in Iran!!! They kill, torture and do lots of stuff that you can't imagine. \nI think the first thing U.S and other countries can do is to freeze their assets and money in banks.  some of them(people in Iran Regime) has Green card and travel to U.S. if Bush means what he says how they can travel to his country so easily.\nIranian people has nothing to do with all this. Why they should pay the price. All these things you see in T.V that some people are supporting them, these are their own people and they are paid to be there. \nBut in my opinion they should try to resolve the problem in a way that Iranian people pay the least price.
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i think i speak for all irish people when i say ireland doesnt think american people are brainwashed. we think americans are good people with big hearts. i am actually engaged to an american. i have to be honest though, i do not like your president. i do not know what he does for the american people, but from what i can see, he is sending young men to war for a reason i dont understand. it was good that saddam was taken down from power, but why are your men still there and being killed. bring them home!!!
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I would say that the Iranians do finally the "proper thing" and send Sistani and the likes in the basement of their masques where they reallyy belong. Vote a NEW reall Democratic or Republican Government, quit "chanting" Death to US and the West, "out of fear and stupidity", get A GRIP on their Country/Economy/Social issues, and then they may have a better life. They are polluting they-selves to death, while their miserable uneducated clericks are taking them down the path to Hell.\nTheir present "unwashed/unsaved" (MAYBE THERE IS REALL SHORTAGE OF SOAP and BLADES?) "I drive an old car" moron, is not the answer. He drives an old car because he does not like the Russian and Chinese models that's all.\nBTW they really should take a good look on his "overseas" accounts in other peoples names/....that would be a good start to find out just how much integrity this person really has.\nGet a grip Iran, or soon it maybe more late then ever to come out of it. They eat steak, while you and your empty belly can only "chant"....PATHETIC...just .....PATHETIC