Such propaganda that AmeriKans are fed.
And CUI BONO, readers?
WHOSE AGENDA gets advanced?
"Letter: Welcomed in Iran"
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To the Editor:
Thank you for “Warmth for Americans in Once Hostile Tehran” (news article, Feb. 13).
Having recently returned from a two-week, five-city tour of Iran, I can attest to the fact that the Iranian people are warm to Americans, not only in Tehran, but also in Shiraz, Esfahan, Kashan and even in the conservative religious city of Qom.
I was often approached by strangers asking me where I was from. When I replied the United States, there was usually a look of surprise — which was always followed immediately by “You are welcomed here,” which was often followed by “We don’t like your president, or his policies, but we do like the American people.”
I find it ironic that having traveled extensively in Muslim countries, it was in the “axis of evil” that I found myself most welcomed as an American.
Doug Hostetter
Cottage, N.Y., Feb. 13, 2008"
"Warmth for Americans in Once Hostile Tehran"
".... America’s image in the Middle East is as low as it has ever been. With the occupation of Iraq; the Israeli bombing of Lebanon; and Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, the United States has been cited in polls as the gravest threat to peace in the region. But Iran is different....
Generally speaking, Iranians like Americans — not just American products, which remain very popular, but Americans. That is not entirely new: Iranians on an individual level have long expressed a desire to restore relations between the countries. But the sentiment seems much more out in the open now....
That's a repressive society that chants "Death to America?"
WTF?!
That change of tone... seems to have given Iranians license to express their frustration with their current situation and their longing for normal relations.
They do not necessarily see themselves as having any connection to the extreme radical ideas of their leaders, whether in religious or geopolitical terms, and calculate that Americans are equally disconnected from their leaders’ decisions, political and social analysts said.
Oh, the Iranians are SO PERCEPTIVE and INTELLIGENT!!!
So much SMARTER than shit-chewing, piss-swilling propaganda shit-suckers of 'murka!!!
Abolfazl Emami, owner of the ice cream shop in Mohseni Square.... with a smile and his hand raised, said: “I like American goods, and I prefer American people. It’s just the government I don’t like.”
Neither do us Americans, sir!!!!
Mehdi Mortazavi, who is helping create Friday’s, a restaurant in Tehran:
“Iranian people respect American business, American mentality, Americans’ demand to always have the best.”
.... Nothing symbolizes the state more than the Paradise of Zahara cemetery, lined with the graves of young men who died in the war with Iraq, which raged from 1980 to 1988. “National Unity and Islamic Consolidation,” reads the banner at the entrance to the sprawling cemetery.
One day in late January, Zahra Ahgangram pulled her black chador around herself as she visited the grave of a nephew, Mohsen Yazdani, 20, who died so many years ago. Her son, Amir Ali Muhamadalipour, stood by her side, and when he realized she was speaking to an American, asked that his message be delivered: “Iranian people like American people. We don’t get fooled by governments on both sides.”
And the fucking stink New York Times wants us to bomb these people for Israel!
Pfffffftttt!
