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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i'm going to converse with you because i am killing time, but the point is this-
i've visited iran. i went with my ex to meet her family. THEY were not impressed with their own government. they and their friends that i met went out of their way to let me know that they do not approve of how their government acts. according to each and every one of them i met, it's why they refer to themselves as persian and not iranian.
it's the government that is the problem, not *iran* and certainly not the people of iran.
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That's fair, they didn't like their government but if you haven't realized the majority of people in the US don't like THEIR government either. Does that give another country the right to start saying they're going to come in and put someone of their choosing as head of the country? OH PLEASE...
Also they are called Persians because for all of the history of the country it was called Persia up until 1935 which is still pretty recent. It has NOTHING to do with them not liking their government.
Just because people don't like their government it doesn't mean that the government needs to be overthrown. The point is there are elections, someone is voted in and they become head of the government only through those democratic means. It only becomes a bad government when they don't side with the US, then they are 'terrorists'.
Look at Hamas in Palestine, for years people called for a fair and free election in Palestine and when it happened, Hamas won. So what does the US and Israel do? They declare Hamas a terrorist organization and give the election to someone of their choosing. How is that democracy? The whole idea of it is a joke, the people don't decide anything and when the people do decide they ALWAYS decide for their best interests which often happens to be not the best interest of the US.