You’re still backing a guy who says he’s willing to meet Mojtaba Khamenei but thinks meeting Reza Pahlavi is inappropriate? Trump is on track to be remembered as Jimmy Carter 2.0 or even worse by many Iranians. It’s time to jump off the Trump train; you’re riding on the wrong side of history.
@MahyarTousi I mean, I’ve been reading your posts for the last few months, and you’ve largely backed Trump from the beginning because you thought he would bomb Iran into political change.
Popular to whom? Those “students” were hardliners who had the backing of the clergy—specifically Khomeini’s camp—from the beginning. The takeover of the U.S. Embassy was a calculated move to remove the more liberal Republic faction from the Islamic government. And it worked; most of them resigned in protest .
@_animal_spirits@tparsi Also here you again a non-Iranian who knows little about Iran putting Iranians in different political camps because of being uninformed . I’m neither in the shah camp or the current Iranian regime camp . I’m an Iranian who understands the reality and history of Iran .
@_animal_spirits@tparsi The “Iranian student group” was given permission by Khomeini to occupy and keep the Americans hostage. Most of those students are now high ranking officials which @tparsi routinely meets and greets .
@Thebigsoll Damnnnn 319 likes, that was unexpected. I guess people agree that Nigerians are known for scams. Also, 48 teams in this World Cup, Nigeria, with a population of 242 million, still didn’t qualify? Lol. Cape Verde, with a population of about 530,000 qualified. Pathetic.
@_animal_spirits@tparsi I think you should differentiate between the Iranian people and the Iranian regime; you’re putting them in the same basket. The Iranian regime’s decision to take American diplomats hostage resulted in decades of sanctions and conflict. Justifying it makes you look uninformed.
You don’t have to post videos of Iran to prove that the Iranian people like Westerners—I’m Iranian, I already know that. When the Islamic Republic was established, one of its first acts was to seize the U.S. Embassy and take Americans hostage. The idea that the IRI hates the U.S. government because it was attacked doesn’t hold up, since its hostility toward the United States predates both this war and the sanctions.
@_animal_spirits@tparsi That’s wishful thinking. The current Iranian and American political systems are incapable of normalizing relations. For that to happen, one of the two systems would have to undergo a fundamental change. Iran’s political system is built on an anti-American, anti-Western ideology.
@DanFmTo@tparsi Doesn’t ban but it requires him to register with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and publicly disclose. He routinely meets Iranian officials in Europe , in New York ((UN) which is a violation of this act. He is not a US citizen so his also deportation valid .
@_animal_spirits@tparsi No one is scared of any chant . It’s hypothetical to be a permanent resident of the US and wine and dine with officials of an enemy state . Do you think the Iranian government would allow one of their residents to meet and greet American government officials?
Iran is my country of birth, and I’ve spent 3/4 of my life in the United States. I’ll always root for both. In 2022, I considered myself lucky because I was happy with either outcome. Iran is where I was born—it’s where my roots and blood are from. The U.S. is my adopted country, and it has been gracious to me. I could never root against either one.