On the streets of Tehran, citizens fear becoming world pariah

Chicago Tribune ^ | August 31 2006 | Christine Spolar

[stm]

Too late, they already are. Once again innocent people suffer the consequences of the guilty.

[samadams2000]

Here we go with the ole..."The Iranian people are good" pablum. They get the government they deserve! Theyve has plenty of time to get their sh*t together as a civilized country and cant. Im tired of being threatened and targeted by these Koranimals. Catch the MOABs I say, good people of Iran.

[popdonnelly]

Not to worry, the UN will not vote any but the mildest of sanctions. What the Iranians should fear is the consequences of their fanatical President building a bomb.

[stm]

No country is totally evil. We thought the same thing about the Iraqi people, even I fell for the propaganda. But when I got over there I found them to be some of the warmest, generous and accomodating people I ever met. You cannot judge a entire population by the actions of some.

[Parley Baer]

Nothing that a little revolution won't cure.

[stm]

I don't think one is too far off. The Iranian people just have to come to grips with the fact that together they can bring an end to the Ayatollah's reign of terror. Ahmedinajad is a loud mouthed buffoon of a puppet but the Ayatollah is pulling the strings

[potlatch]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Few said they doubted that the United States, at odds with Iran since its Islamic revolution more than 27 years ago, would seek to inflict economic pain on the country.

Umm, it wasn't the revolution per se. It was the fact that they held 66 American hostages for 444 days during the Carter Administration. The majority were not released until Ronald Reagan was sworn in. Coincidence?

[Moonman62]

Maybe we should be doing massive airdrops of assassination kits into the country.

[Moonman62]

The majority were not released until Ronald Reagan was sworn in. Coincidence?

Nope. Once Reagan was president-elect, he did some major trash talking that scared the crap out of them

[eclectic]

The Iranians need not worry - the Russians and the Chinese will protect them from the e-e-evil Americans!

[blam]

"Umm, it wasn't the revolution per se. It was the fact that they held 66 American hostages for 444 days during the Carter Administration. The majority were not released until Ronald Reagan was sworn in. Coincidence?"

Yup. That was when George H W Bush flew an SR-71 Blackbird to Teheran to arrange the release of the hostages just to embarass Carter.

Remember that Democrat investigation?

[Rembrandt]

There's an easy way for the Iranians to deal with the discomfort of sanctions. All they need to do is to ask Joe Wilson to come and investigate; he'll give the country a clean bill of health, then it's business as usual. Complete the heavy water reactor (only used for flashlight battery power, after all) and it's off to the races.

[toomanylaws]

"Maybe we should be doing massive airdrops of assassination kits into the country."

Great Idea. Instead of one shot one kill we could have many shots many kills.

[kabar]

Here we go with the ole..."The Iranian people are good" pablum. They get the government they deserve! Theyve has plenty of time to get their sh*t together as a civilized country and cant. Im tired of being threatened and targeted by these Koranimals. Catch the MOABs I say, good people of Iran.

BS. Did the people of Eastern Europe deserve Communist rule for 45 years?

[Tench_Coxe]

""Everyone's worried," jeweler Bahram Mehraban said in his small Tehran storefront, contemplating the possibility of UN sanctions. "Only the common people will be hurt. . . . All the important people here will have prepared and (will) still have a luxurious life.""

Well, Mr. Mehraban has realized at least half of the equation. The other half is how long is the average Iranian going to sit around and let this continue--in other words, the only reason the important people sit on their thrones is because the rest of the Iranians sit down and let the important people run roughshod.

Here's another clue for Mr. Mehraban: It's not really the U.S. that the 'important people' consider the true enemy, but those within Iran who would resist the current regime.

[Anomaly in Illinois]

"On the streets of Tehran, citizens fear becoming world pariah"

Bummer! What they should be afraid of is the AMERICANS dropping big fat BOMBS on their heads if they don't toss out the Kool Aid Drinkers in charge!!

9/11 did not help OUR economy, it did not help MY pocketbook. Boo hoo to them! We warned them five years ago. Can you hear us now?! /rant off

[Eagle74]

As John Stuart Mill once observed: "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is worse."

[msnimje]

"Could?"

Obviously the destruction of their satellite dishes has kept them in the dark (ages?).