...Another View of Iran...

With the rhetoric of war against Iran and the demonizing being ratcheted up as was done to Iraq, this is a side to consider that is seldom heard. These are the words of an Iranian -

"There is a brilliant article in the Wall Street Journal about Iran’s ongoing hit T.V. series that deals with the plight of Jews during WWII (It’s a sort of an Iranian “Schindler’s List” and is called “Zero Degree Turn”!).

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118912609718220156-

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Clearly, Iran is a very much misunderstood nation, and the neocons/Zionists have done their level best to exaggerate its purported evils so as to prevent the U.S.-Iran ‘rapprochement’ that should have occurred after Iran promptly sent condolences on 9/11 (the first nation globally to do so) and provided invaluable assistance to the U.S. in expelling the Taliban from Afghanistan.

You might also like to read the new book by Chicago professor, Mearsheimer, and Harvard professor, Walt, on the extraordinary and damaging influence of AIPAC on U.S. foreign policy. It’s called “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”.

I personally believe the neocons and Israelis have dug their own grave, because “you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”.

The bitter irony of all this is that if the U.S. and Israel had extended the hand of friendship to Iran the world would have been far more capable of defeating terrorism than by demonizing Iran and praising Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (whose citizens perpetrated 9/11 and danced in the streets on seeing the Twin Towers collapse).

So what about the 1980 hostage crisis?! U.S. spies (every embassy has them!) were denied room service for 444 days. Not a single diplomat was harmed [and the criminal Reagan cabal, purposely conspired to delay their release as a tactic to defeat Pres. Jimmy Carter].

What America had done in 1953 in overthrowing the first ever democratically elected secular government in the region (leading to murder and torture under the U.S.-installed Shah), then encouraging Saddam Hussein to invade Iran (leading to one million deaths), was a lot worse. It is America that should have apologized to Iran for historical atrocities, not vice-versa.

As for Israel, Iran actually provided it with emergency fuel during the 1967 war, so the attitude of both America and Israel has been astonishingly inept and self-destructive. The neocons and Israelis are their own worst enemies. We need more voices of reason, especially among Jewish Americans, if we don’t want global terrorism to get unimaginably worse."