I too have Persian friends, and as much as I love and respect them, (A diplomat at the Iranian embassy in Paris GAVE us 4 great location, impossible-to-get tickets to the World Cup a few years ago simply because was asked politely if he knew where we could get tickets! Scalpers would have gotten $5,000 apiece for these seats.) they must do something to remove the psychotics that run their government.
Even the late Ayatollah Khomeini was afraid of this Ahmadinejad when he was with the Revolutionary Guards.
“Even the late Ayatollah Khomeini was afraid of this Ahmadinejad when he was with the Revolutionary Guards.”
I can’t for the life of me even understand how he got elected in the first place. He almost seemed to come out of nowhere. I was sure that Rafsanjani was a definite. I have always gotten the impression that the Iranian people were rather non hard line and, as this story shows, not necessarily hostile to the US, so who voted him in? Did he perhaps proport himself to be one thing before the election, and then show another agenda after the fact?