The people of Iran are more friendly to America than rest of Middle East [View All]

[kentuck]

They are westernized in many ways and have been an ally through the time of the Shah and before. Even after the Islamic Revolution put the ayatollahs in power, the people still respected America and the American people. Many reports out of Iran today suggest that the people of Iran are not happy with their religious leadership. One of the worst mistakes America could make would be to antagonize our friends, the people of Iran, with an attack upon their country. Cries for bombing their nuclear facilites and destroying the invisible threat before it becomes reality, is widespread amongst the mostly right-wing of this nation. They still seem to not have accepted the fact that our country is in Iraq, Iran's neighbor, because our people were lied to about the nuclear capabilities of Saddam Hussein.