[rodguy911]

I think there may be hope for Iran. They were ot always broke and muslim. They had lives under the shah.

[rodguy911]

HUngry Howie just showed how mad Nicole wall=ass got at Sarah Huckabee,pathetic.

I feel like waterboarding Nicole until she gets some religon.

I just had to waterboard 6 squirrels that kept eating my birdfood,they just don't get it,a lot like Nicole.

[kabar]

They were Muslim but secular. The Mullahs' power base was the poor and uneducated. I remember you could buy Playboy in Tehran along with alcohol. The women were not dressed in chadors. At the time I was there, there were more women in the Iranian parliament than there were in the US Congress.

Our embassy in Tehran was the largest in the world (over 1,000) counting the many "advisors" stationed along the Caspian monitoring the Soviet nuclear program. There were over than 80,000 private Americans in Tehran including defense contractors like Bell Helicopter. Israel had a significant trade mission in Tehran and there was a vibrant Jewish community. I attended a Jewish wedding at the time. There were 50,000 Iranian students in the US, the largest contingent of any country in the world.

It all came to a screeching halt with the removal of the Shah and the entrance of Khomeini. The transformation was immediate and permanent.