I think what Bill Clinton was trying to say there is that the Iranian people want reform. There really are 2 different Irans, one is the government of old Islamofascists, and the other is the people of Iran, most of whom are young and progressive and want better ties with the west. Bill Clinton was praising the younger more progressive Iran.
That is my understanding.I think what Bill Clinton was trying to say there is that the Iranian people want reform . . . Bill Clinton was praising the younger more progressive Iran.
That would be logical - but it's Bill Clinton we're talking about. Reread the article; your take is backwards. He explicitly promotes the mullahocracy and slanders the US. His speech is remenescent of nothing so much as Jane Fonda touring a North Vietnamese prison camp and putting prisoners in a bind where they had to either seem to agree with their captors - or get themselves tortured.