Sept, 12, 2000 - Iran poll shows strong support for U.S. ties

[Roland99]

Sept, 12, 2000 - Iran poll shows strong support for U.S. ties
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/09/12/iran.usa.reut/index.html

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- An opinion poll carried out by Iran's culture ministry shows that only 8.1 percent of Iranians perceive the United States as an enemy, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

Contrary to the official no-compromise line pushed by establishment hardliners, 55.7 percent said they wanted the restoration of full diplomatic ties with the United States, the daily Entekhab said.

Only 29.7 percent of the 1,839 Tehrani citizens aged over 15 polled said they were against the resumption of ties and 14.6 percent said they had no opinion.

Anyone care to guess what the percentages are today?

[marmar]

1. To quote Janet Jackson:

What have you done for me lately?
Ooh ooh ooh yeah
What have you done for me lately?
Ooh ooh ooh yeah

BushCo has an uncanny ability to drive away allies. :yoiks:

[Roland99]

2. I'm watching "Why We Fight" at the moment and I'm a mix of tears and anger

[marmar]

3. I've never seen it...

Worth watching?

[Roland99]

4. OMG yes! At least as good as The Power of Nightmares

There are plenty of clips of interviews of those orchestrating the crimes (Perle, Kristol, Wolfowitz) and commentary from McCain along with interviews of Defense industry execs and plenty of rebuttal interviews from those who, like us, realize what the neocons and the military-industrial complex are really all about.

Very well-done.

It even gets into that our wars of aggression are about economic colonialism. Good to finally hear that coming out of someone's mouth publicly!

[marmar]

5. Cool. I'll rent it tomorrow....

especially if it's at least as good as The Power of Nightmares.

[Roland99]

6. Well, here's a bit of news re: how America is seen today >>>>

Iranian dissident snubs Bush
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1197259.ece



"Heckuva job, George!"

[mogster]

7. Whoa!

That says something of why we're were we are today.

Is Ahmadinejad genuine?

Good find - K&R!

[Roland99]

8. Well, I'm reminded of this NYTimes article from a while ago...

Those Friendly Iranians
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/opinion/05KRIS.html

Finally, I've found a pro-American country.

Everywhere I've gone in Iran, with one exception, people have been exceptionally friendly and fulsome in their praise for the United States, and often for President Bush as well. Even when I was detained a couple of days ago in the city of Isfahan for asking a group of young people whether they thought the Islamic revolution had been a mistake (they did), the police were courteous and let me go after an apology.

They apologized; I didn't.

On my first day in Tehran, I dropped by the "Den of Spies," as the old U.S. Embassy is now called. It's covered with ferocious murals denouncing America as the "Great Satan" and the "archvillain of nations" and showing the Statue of Liberty as a skull (tour the "Den of Spies" here).

Then I stopped to chat with one of the Revolutionary Guards now based in the complex. He was a young man who quickly confessed that his favorite movie is "Titanic." "If I could manage it, I'd go to America tomorrow," he said wistfully. He paused and added, "To hell with the mullahs."

...

Oh, that one instance when I was treated inhospitably? That was in a teahouse near the Isfahan bazaar, where I was interviewing religious conservatives. They were warm and friendly, but a group of people two tables away went out of their way to be rude, yelling at me for being an American propagandist. So I finally encountered hostility in Iran — from a table full of young Europeans.

[ananda]

11. That was over two years ago..

What I'm wondering is why the USA is painting Iran as so anti-American.

Does Iran have something we want? Like oil...

[Roland99]

12. It's the threat of nucular weapons.Yeah, that's it.Nevermind that Pakistan

which has no control over its ISI is now making waves to produce nuclear weapons with a new plutonium processing plant.

Having terrorists get ahold of nuclear weapons is more feasible there in Pakistan due to the tenuous control Musharaf has. But, then again, there's no oil in Pakistan.


Neocons are fucking up the world with their damn blinders on.

[robcon]

9. I think Iranians are still pro-U.S.

Their government's and their theocrats' only reason for being is to whip up anti-U.S. fervor. Their foreign policy is consumed with the U.S.

[Roland99]

10. But to what degree. How many have changed their sentiments?