Aww did your feelings get hurt. Are you a left wing nazi or a muslim terrorist (Animal)
If it wasn't for the west the middles east would still be trying to figure how to get the oil out of the goround let alone use it. Futhermoe they would still be urinating in the same creek they drink out of. So actually they should thank the jews for adding some civilization to their worhtl;es sand hole
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"No one is going to ask you to go over there!" says Precht, laughing.
But that's not what Limbert's got on his mind. "Can you imagine what our colleagues would have been subjected to during all this Gaza business?" he asks. "[The government] had a hard time containing the mobs in Tehran who wanted to attack the British and the Egyptians!"
Still, "there are relatively cost-free things we can do, like giving visas and then asking for reciprocity," says Precht.
"But then you get a kick in the teeth: they become suspicious that we're recruiting spies," says Limbert. He's not keen on a gesture like unfreezing Iran's assets abroad either. "I'm sure they would say, 'That's very nice. What else can you do for us?' "
Yet Precht maintains that the United States must "find a way to relieve Iranians of their insecurities. We have to stop talking about regime change," says Precht. "Obama should tell his envoy to tell Iran that we accept Iran and we're not interested" in changing its leadership. Indeed, an assurance not to meddle in Iran's internal affairs was part of the agreement that won the freedom of the hostages, at last, in January 1981.
As this suggests, nothing is likely to change before the rhetoric does. "Iran is the only country in the world that gathers thousands of people every week to shout 'Death to America!' " says Gary Sick, who served on the National Security Council in 1979. "It's foolish and no one takes it seriously. But what if we had a rally in Washington every week and we all shouted, 'Death to Iran!'? What would they think about that?"
"The language has to change," says Sick. "If Iranians want to be treated with respect, they have to behave respectfully themselves."
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