americans misunderstand persians, even friendly ones.
persian friends of mine in l.a. want respect; theirs is a thousands of years old culture.
and they want world political influence, altho’ they disapprove strongly of the mullahs and ahmadinejad.
As long as the Mullahs and nutjob are in charge, the Persians forfeit any chance at influence in world affairs. If their idea of ‘influence’ is pursuing nuclear weapons, wiping out Israel, arming Hebollah and stirring up trouble in Lebnanon, providing ied components to terrorists in Iraq, sheltering Al Sadr, and providing weapons to the Taliban, how can they expect anything less than scorn form the rest of the world>?
Respect and influence... They had both of them with the Shah.
Thanks to the united effort of the Western and Iranian Left and the Iranian Islamists their once great country now is an isolated rathole of terrorism.
there’s is a thousand year old culture that has some dusty rugs to show for it. Pygmy cultures have been around for thousands of years. So what. These guys as you have so aptly proven, have attitude and it’s not a good idea to let them arm up with nukes. That is all.
Respect is not given but earned.
LLS