I want the US and Iran to get along, NOW, before it's too late.  How can I help make that happen from little ole New Hampshire?
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Well, I think the best step you could take as an individual citizen it to teach tolerance and appreciation for Iranian (and other) cultures.  Iran/Persia has a long and glorious history, not to mention fabulous cuisine!  After this, remind everyone you know that the government of Iran does not represent the feelings of all Iranians, just as the government of the United States does not represent the feelings of all US citizens.  I know tens of wonderful Iranian people who hold absolutely no ill-will toward the United States or citizens of the United States.  In fact, most of my Iranian friends wish only the prosperity of all humankind.  People are more alike than different.
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The Iranian government should be restructured; I'm not sure that an invasion is the best way to do it. But, with their stated goals of wiping out Israel, etc., and their pursuit of nuclear weapons (not nuclear power; they have plenty of oil) they are scary, scary.
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Back, when Jimmy Carter was President, Irananians, who overthrew the Shah,  took our embassy staff hostage.  That is because the Shah was a cruel dictator and the U. S. had kept him propped up for a long time.\n\nSome time later, Sadam decided to go to war with Iran.  Now Iraq was our friend.  The U. S. government supplied Sadam with all manner of potions with which to torment the Iranians, because we didn't like the Iranians because they overthrew our Shah, and held our embassy staff prisoner for a long time.\n\nNow, when Sadam stopped behaving, we knew what we had given him and had every reason to expect to find it there, maybe even new and improved.  After all, a lot of his scientists were educated in major universities right here in the U. S.  Besides which, we had a devil of a time trying to fight the war in Afghanistan.  We needed space for some bases in the middle east, and then, there was that oil....so, what excuse could we come up with???   Oh! Oh! I got it...remember that anthrax we gave him?\n\nUnfortunately, by the time we got there, the cupboard was bare and noone knows what happened to it.  Most folks say Syria.  I wouldn't doubt it.
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Israel is our problem too, if your a Christian especially. Moses led them out of Egypt to the Holy Land. That is our home to live when Jesus comes back. Why would we allow some country to want them blown up? I wish Iran's good people could over throw the evil leadership, then we wouldn't mind if they had nukes. Just get the supporters of terrorism out!! Please
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I hadn't thought about this suggestion before. I think it does leave us in a position to monitor them but stay on their good side, which is key. We don't need to make the situation worse, for sure. Do you think Iran would be open to that? If they weren't, is that sign to the UN that their intentions are malicious?
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We needed Iran then to create an environment for us to sell weapons to Iran and Iraq. We need Iran now as a problem to keep the weapons eceonomy moving again.
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I think there may be a relationship between Iraq and Iran. Iran will eventually step in and take advantage of the chaos.
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You make some very good points - and your question is well thought out and written - but I believe the theory that terrorists can be dealt with successfully using diplomacy, negotiation or reasonable dialog was pretty much discounted when President Carter tried these policies during the Iranian hostage crisis.\n\nBefore reasonable dialog can take place, reasonable people must be involved. We are dealing with Islamic radicals - people who would cut your head off just to make another video. \n\nI do agree that more priority must be placed on training and equipping the Iraqi security forces to try and shorten the time needed to get them in position to take over the peace keeping tasks and routing out the terrorists now performed by American troops.\n\nUltimately, the Iraqi people will either stand up and fight for their freedoms and rights, or all of the humanitarian and military aid we can muster will be in vane - regardless of our strategy in this war.
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consider the politics involved.\nEurope, most of the Americas(  Canada, USA, and south America have means of producing power through nuclear reaction) many "friendly" countries of the middle east and the Asian continent have these means also.\n\npeace may be found if the trouble maker is taken out of negotiations to bring about an agreement between Iran and the EU. along with the UAR.\ni think at this point, Iran poses as much a treat to us as did Iraq had when it's "weapons of mass destruction " were thought to exist.\n we didn't know they didn't. it was a needed excuse to enter a war which we are still "engaged" in.\n how do we know that these allegations aren't false also.\n \n maybe if the accuser is removed so Iran can establish her defense under the eyes of these world unions, we might better understand the exact nature of this situation.\n\nin other words, give Iran a Chance to defend her self without the worry of facing an aggressor while trying to do so.
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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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We tried that before with Iran under the Clinton administration. It didn't work. We need to let the world handle this. If the dictators of N.K. and Iran won't comply, it will be up to the world to take them out.
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Your country's "President" needs to be wiped off the face of this earth and all it's Mullahs stripped of their power and moolah. ;-)\n\nOtherwise, I think we should nuke Iran.
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Let me help.  I received this info this morning: \n\n"TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has said it would offer cash incentives to travel agencies to encourage Western tourists to visit the country, giving a premium for Americans, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday.\nThe proposal is Iran's latest bid to reach out to ordinary Americans in an attempt by the Islamic Republic's political leadership to show that its quarrel is with the U.S. administration — not U.S. citizens.\n\nIt came as the United Nations Security Council deliberates a draft resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran for its disputed nuclear program.\n\n"Iran's tourism department will pay $20 per person to those who attract European or American tourists to the country," the agency quoted Mohammed Sharif Malakzadeh, deputy head of the department, as saying.\n\nVisitors from other countries would earn travel agents $10 a tourist, Malakzadeh said."\n\nIf you could persuade your travel agent to split this powerful financial incentive with you, I'm sure that it would go a long way to helping pay for the trip!
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Dear friend \nThey never answer you without hostile as vessels leak what they hold before this i always thought American people are very nice , kind and respectable as my bf was so but when i came here in this hell i saw he was just an exception most of the American or west people are not the same they dont seem to be fair enough even they are not respectable \nthey lie insult and cheat ...just read their Q&A in here tell me could a respectable person talk so? I wonder what a culture they have ? What kind of human  they are ?\napart of all nonsense about iran and iranian that they have written in here apart of politics and ... i m sure you know well as a member of iranian people that how much our people respect to foreign when they are coming to our country u might see over and over the way they treat with foreign in our country  you know well about their hospitablity...now just read their words toward our people what do you think about them? what do you expect from them? ohh even i feel shame instead of them when i read their statement about iran and iranian people what we must expect from such a people ?\ngenerosity ?fair ?humanity ?\nthey let to themselves to take decision instead of us even they let to themselves to talk about changing our government or president its funny !!\ni m not saying that i m agree with all happened in our country maybe there are some wrongs but its not their business\neven if some thing went wrong its us who must take decsion for ourselves not any one from another country i dont think the people who intervene in internal affairs of a country are respectable \n\nyou see even in here some of them trying to decline the certain right of Iran for use of nuclear technology with illegal reason like this one :\nThe IAEA has ordered Iran to stop.Have they?\n\nwhy they think we must stop our peaceful nuclear activites ?\nOfcourse Iranian scientist managed to achieve nuclear technology while the country was under sanctions iran still ready to respect the decision of the international bodies if they respect irans legal right for the peaceful use of nuclear technology \nHOW EVER WE WILL NOT REGARD THESE DECISION S AS VAILD IF THEY DENY US OUR RIGHT \nhow you can complain of peaceful nuclear activities just for scientific research when your owen country have weapon nuclear ? how you can base your reason just on a statement of our president that Israel must wipe from map and say Iranian are terroist yet he doesnt committed to it but \nWhat a bout the killing of so much innocence people in Iraq and Afghanistan due to your government actions? Do you approve it? Why don’t you prevent that? Could I scold all American people for that? Could I call all of them as a terrorist? \nthey cant decline the certain right of Iran for use of nuclear technology base on ( Iranian president words about Israel )So what about the April 22 edition of the Israel daily Harretz quoted saying that the Mossad is plotting to assassinate Irainian president Mohmud Ahmadinejad?\nObviously , when both united states and its western allies encourage Israel to commit such crimes and to intensify its sponsored terrorism , we can not expect to see global terrorism eradicated . violence alwasys begets violence.\nRight now you see they are nt agree that a country like Iran have nuclear technology for providing fuel electricity plants medical and agricultural usage only.\nthe answer is obvious Well dont you think if they hadnt distorted the standard of peacful purposes before or they had the standard of good and bad now they hadnt problem with peacful nuclear activities of Iran ? \nif you read American history books you will note that America dropped atomics bombs on Japons two cities\nHiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 for ending the war and brining peace to the that war torn country so as claimed by Harry s. truman , the u.s. president , nuclear weapons could be used for peacful purposes too !!\nWest can not impose wrong decisions on Iran under UN cov
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I sympathize with your country's situation. But you have to understand that you have been taken control under a theocracy that is ruled by an anti-semitic radical muslim. We can't trust Iran's word to say that they will only use it for nuclear power giving the history of disagreement with Israel. Ahmanidejad has said he will blow up Israel and he doens't believe the Holocaust ever happened. The Iran-Iraq war was horrible and innocent lives were lost. The U.S. at that time did help Saddam because we viewed Iran as a bigger threat. I apologize on my country's behalf. But we were nervous of a potential Middle East crisis and we tried to salvage it. It's because of this history that we can't trust Ahmanidejad because we can't run the risk of him blowing up Israel or take over a weak Iraq. If this occurs, it will expand the war in the Middle East and possibly create a WWIII which will hurt everybody. This is why we don't support nuclear development in Iran. If you can guarantee us that Iran won't blow up Israel then who knows? Until then, try to see this from our point of view.
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Iraq will need us for a long time still. When we are finished there, though, North Korea is in need of an overhaul in a big, big way. For insight on that, rent the documentary "State of Mind". If we don't go to North Korea first, I'm sure we'll go to Iran. YIKES!
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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.