I knew many Iranians when was in college, and when I was in the Navy, I was going to A-School (jets) with scores of Iranians learning how to perform maintenance on their F-14s we were selling them.
I had generally liked and admired the Iranians I have known, even if there were a few who took on quite a different persona when the hostage crisis occurred, and were a-holes. But more than a few did not want to return to Iran after the Shah was betrayed, but they had no choice in the matter.
It has been a source of pain to me to see what a few generations there have become under that Islamic crap. I had a lot of hope for Iran at one time.
I was attending Chattahoochie Community College in 1979 when the Iranian Hostage situation began. That is a community College in Phoenix City Alabama, across the border from Columbus GA. I was attained college on my GI bill. I was enlisted from “73” to “76”.
Anyway, the College Dean told the Iranian students not to return the next Semester after the Hostage situation began. Then Jimmy Carter called and told him he had to let them come back.
I had gotten to know a few Iranian students, and would go over to their dorm and talk about things as I tend to reason with them.
I was ignorant at the time of how our government and media worked, but these guys would tell me stories of how my government lies to me and so does my media lie.
I was defending the government and told them we had the freest and most honest media in the world.
I remember thinking back to those days when I started listening to Rush Limbaugh he was in Sacramento, and then when he went national. (I lived in Chico CA any that time.) Listened to rush until he died.
Going back in my. ind to those debates, and all I can say is they new better about my media and my government than I did.