[dixiechick2000]

What's your take on this?

[DoctorZIn]

The vast majority are not just interested in normalization with the US. They want a free, secular and demrocratic government. The Iranian people can see this for waht it is. An attempt to forestall the inevitable.

[freedom44]

"Now that the ruling ayatollahs have realised the danger that looms over their head, that this American Administration is serious in its menaces, they try to get out of the pit in which they had plunged themselves", commented Mr. Ahmad Ahrar, a seasoned political analyst.

"Unites States biggest mistake would be to shake the hands of the Islamic Republic, a regime that has no legitimacy with the Iranian people, a regime that is in a vegetal state. If the Americans fall fool of these statements and buy such lies, they would also loose the sympathy they enjoy with the Iranians", said one students leader speaking on cndition of anonymity.

My take EXACTLY.