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all these countries

All these countries have been the victims of economic and diplomatic sanction by US and her friends.
Carter and Clinton wanted to open dialogue with Cuba and Iran and believed that dipolomatic relation between Cuba and US would have benefited both countries but the republicans would have had none of it.
So when you base your essay on these figures try to point out the root cause of malaise as well otherwise it would be a one sided argument.

Anonymous..

Why must you only cater to people with an IQ below 130? Why won't you add more substance and more balance to your writing?

Maybe because Mr. Kashani didn't want you to feel left out. Not only that, but I'm sure he typed slowly, since you can't read fast.

Lastly, I wasn't aware that "illiterate articles attrack illiterate remarks" until you came along to show how illiterate you really are.

wow, anonymous

yes, i caught the "ann... fish" comment.  what a class act you are!  iranians should be soooooo proud right now.

i enjoy debating, discussing and even arguing with many people on iranian.com.  they are gentlemen and civil individuals. 

i'm still waiting for some substantiating evidence of these allegations against me... insulting iranians...racist... etc. but i know it's pointless.  cowards hide everytime.  you'll just come back under another anonymous name and toss your insults. 

as far as speaking german?  hell no, we kicked their ass. remember? 

javadagha... now i remember you.  you're the clever one who insulted iranian women.  how could i expect less...:-)

i'll put my 500 year old country against your 5000 year old one any day of the week.  if you want to pretend that's insulting, fine by me. 

and apparently so will many others who came here to live.

The warmonger's objective (Well said gol-dust)

Gol-dust, regarding ypou AIPAC comment, here is what former speaker of the Israeli Parliament Avraham Burg says:

"I have a feeling that sometimes we’re having three political entities: the United States of America, the sovereign state of Israel, and the independent state of AIPAC, which has its own policy"

Gol-dust, as you correctly said, this war monger's objective is to set us all (Iranains, Americans, and Israelis) against each other.

Hey MRX1

No one gives a damn about the unfair, racist American politics, most people are here because of economic reasons and opportunity. Most will move once the economy shifts. I am not talking about Iranians here, I am talking about people. They go where their kids can go to school and they can provide.
Do you have to be blind to the racism or unjust policies or the Zionists acts because you live somewhere?
Should they stop loving their land? Would an Israeli do that? or An Italian. Just because the Mini me is ruling the US right now, doesn't mean that the US is right.
Actually US is absolutely wrong in supporting Israeli, Fighting an unnecessary war in Iraq, and threatening Iran.
You think Zionists stay? Zionists would be the first to go. That's why they are fighting to have "something" reserved just in case. In case of what you ask?
They'll be gone before this country gets bad. Because they care about America the same as they care about women and children being killed so they can have an spare land just in case. Wherever the money is dude, that's the deal with most people.
You probably would be the first to go.
US policies are unfair and scary.
Man do you even know how many people in how many countries have been killed by the US soldiers? Raped? Take a guess!
I guess I shouldn't say that because the feeling of some racist arrogant individuals gets hurt. So?
It's a matter of principle. When the time comes, those of us who care will protect people like you if needed, not those who are racist and selfish who don't care about the human life.

The best quote of the comments

This is toooooo funny:

"US got the brains and the muscle, but his (little) penis, Israel, directs his body around"

Great analogy, lol

This is the kind of

This is the kind of grotesque anti-americanism that Obama et al are going to confront when they start their glorious talks with the IRI. Obama better be ready to put them in their place.

It's interesting

that all these people with negative view of U.S live in U.S! As if some one is forcing them to live here. Why put yourself through this torture every day? get one way ticket and venture to greener pastures....

Anonymous lady and moftkhor Eye-ranians

Anonymous lady; You keep asking for proof.  Please place your list next to other list(s). Beirut killing soldiers?  I assume you have a proof, if yes, then compare it with downing cowardly a civilian plane killing 290 passengers and crew (most of whom were children).  Just compare your list with others.  I did not know you also speak or write in German then you are one of the few (Beirut-Tötungsoldaten? Ich nehme an, dass Sie einen Beweis, wenn ja haben, dann ihn mit dem Niederwerfen cowardly einer Zivilfläche vergleichen, die 290 Passagiere und Mannschaft (am meisten von, tötet waren wem Kinder). Vergleichen Sie einfach Ihre Liste mit anderen. Ich wusste nicht, dass Sie auch auf Deutsch sprechen oder schreiben, dann, das Sie eins von den wenigen sind.)  For vatanfoorsh Eye-ranians, no one said I do not watch other news channels; how else can I compare? Women or girls have no house to their names in Iran or other countries?  How about betting some money? (10% to go to JJ). Yeh . . . leave America but do not take your money.  Is it because the country is broke?! Or they want to send the money to Israel?

Good people showing their true color

Poor Iranian husband!

Anyways, the fact that American Wanna be Israeli agent PC, who ultimately doesn't give a flying ##&^ about the US the moment US stops her support to Israel, and some culturally hollow individual who just happen to be born in the land of the free tend to agree! shows you the extend of racism that is carved in the culture of some people. WOW

PC argued for years about how his hero messanger stupid Dick and his object were the greates thing ever happened to the US, forgoing the death toll as bunch of Ayrabs getting killed in a region that HE claims is theirs!!!
Red neck indeed.

I guess here goes to show you that nationalism is the core and all the "human rights", Woman rights (besides animal rights!) it's all lies and deception.
That's how Iranians learn from the best. We see that regardless of what's right or wrong, the issue is nationalism and superiority. Then let the 21st century be a lesson for them. It just begun.
I think Iranian inside got it right about the policy makers and their follower of this country. That's how Iran is wrapping the American politicians around their little pinki. They were racist against blacks, Jews, Korean, Indians, and now Iranian is their new topic of interest. The hell with all these arrogant red necks.
And red neck is being nice. The real word I can't say since it won't get published.

Zionism is Terrorism, are you Zionist?

Khaak bar saretun. Dotaa ahmagh baa inkeh baa ham movaafeghat nadaaran, mogheyee keh sobat e keshvareshun mishe, mota'hed mishan. Yaad begirid.

Kashani, Didn't I tell you!!

Here it is again. After reading your essay and the reply posted by some of your followers like kaveh norgireeh and the super defensive ann... fish, one has no choice but to conclude that illiterate articles attrack illiterate remarks. Why must you only cater to people with an IQ below 130? Why won't you add more substance and more balance to your writing?

I really feel for JJ now. He has to pay for diskspace and bandwidth to maintain all this nonsense. He is a bigger man than I gave him credit for.

You guys all fell for Isreli agent "Kashani." He created a war

and disappeared! Now, you are just wasting your time arguing against each other about what that idiot instigated! US would be a much better country if it wasn't for the israeli influene. Look at all those who were bailed out, and media, US congress, and so on, are all AIPACs or controlled by them. Why do you think that Madof ( a russian AIPAC) was put only on house arrest while someone who steals pizza goes to jail! They knew it all along, but couldn't touch the mafia guy since they were afraid of the hit man! SEC was afraid of him! Democracy? How about AIPAC control of US? How could such a little country control US? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Iran is corrupt! That's why those who live abroad cannot go there since they are not used to bribery! US government and Iran are both corrupt! So don't defend any of them! But, americans and iranians, in general, are good people who can live in peace with each other! unfortunately, americans equate iranians with their government, but iranians differentiate the two!

I totally disagree with that guy "Kashani." We love America and Iran, but we hate both governments!

PC

what is it with people calling americans rednecks.  i guess they consider it the ultimate insult...:-)

anonymous

what is YOUR problem... you're jumping on the bandwagon too with nothing to substantiate your allegations.  i'm still waiting on the others.. now i can add YOU to the list of ball-less wonders who hit and run.  cowards.  i can now add that to hypocrites and double standards. 

captain.  you want to review some other facts of life?

yes, lets be thankful for:

korean atrocities against american POWs.  yes, let's thank north korea and the chinese.

killing of 241 soldiers in lebanon. yes, let's thank iran.

hostage taking in iran. yes, let's thank iran.

9-1-1... remember that? yes, let's thank SA.

over 2400 dead at pearl harbor.  yes, let's thank japan.

POW's at malmedy massacred.  yes, let's thank the germans.

there is no doubt that the US has committed crimes.  nor is there any doubt that america is aggressive.  but let me remind you that if it weren't for the US...  you'd be speaking german. 

but no.  maybe not.  maybe you would have gone elsewhere when you left iran.  maybe to another country with freedom of speech.  another country where your wife or your daughter could own a home in her name.  hell, own a home?  another country where your wife and daughter could walk the street without hejab being tossed into prison!

i'm under no illusions that the US is perfect.  NONE.  you want to blame the government for the financial woes of the US... go ahead.  me?  i of the opinion that it was due more by greed.  people who live beyond their means and then expect sympathy. 

Farhad Kashani

WOW!!!! we (Iran) is so close to Zimbabwe in so many categories. It is unbelievable.
I knew things were bad but these relative rankings are much worse than I had ever expected.

I have checked out some of the sources, they all seem legitimate.

lol

You come across as a redneck when one reads your words.

Knew that one was coming! :D

Do I need to point out that's a racial slur, or did you already know that?

Mr. Kashani

Good article. Unfortunately, it's wasted on the likes of some of these idiots who actually believe the U.S. OWES them something. The title says "Time To Wake Up", but these detractors are all in an irreversible coma.

As for the rest of you, grow the hell up.

You whine about the U.S. so much, yet you live here.

You complain about the government, yet it was the government that allowed you to enter this country in the first place, so that you can get a quality education, a decent standard of living, or because you know that if you stayed in Iran the mollahs were going to hang you by your gonads, so you begged the INS for a visa like a little girl, saying, "I Laav Amrika! I vaant to be Yoo Ess Essitizen! I pelej aleejans to de felag av de Yoonited Esstates of Amreeka. Peleez I don't vaant go back to Iran. Dey kill me."

Talk about sh**ing where you eat!

You don't like what FOX or CNN or MSNBC reports? Change the damn channel. And how would you conclude that it is so biased or Zionist unless you are still watching it in the first place? And if you're watching it, you're a hypocrite!

You clowns have this exaggerated sense of entitlement. This country and no one in it owes you a goddamn thing.

You don't like how things are here? Then get the hell out. Major airlines have flights that depart the United States that you hate so much every single day. Go. Get lost.

Javadagha

Javad Agha,

How can we pack up and move back? The US will allow money to be wired into the US, but not from the US to an Iranian bank. They call banks in Iran are terrorists. It's also illegal to carry more than $10K in cash. Do you have ideas?

Abarmand

Our internal issues in the United States along with the monetary objectives of a hawkish society from within, become dictating factors behind how we pursue foreign policy as a whole. I'm not sure how you can claim they are unrealted.

Some passionately protect our government's action in the name of patriotism, others question why that freedom and justice only apply to a certain class of the population, nor do they remain passive toward the demonization of their culture and race. If all these patriots didn't pay their taxes the way Dashell and other Obama nominees failed to pay, the consequence for their oversight will be substantially more severe. Kind of like 3 strikes and you're out rule that apply to the DVD player thief vs. white color fraud of the Enron's alike which link you can easily link to the families that lost hope and commit suicide.

Are some lives worth more than others? The hawkish relieve themselves of moral objectivity by claming that our educated western society is more important than the uneduated palestineyans that are getting slaughtered. Why? because we've had the opportunity and they haven't? Yet we let them immigrate here (if they can bring in their bundle of cash) and then they are OK. A contributing member to our "free and democratic system", is one whose effort and life time of work can benefit the same elite that endorse the killings abroad.

This is the kind of racism that A/Fish, farhad kashani and programmer craig's alike don't realize their argument is ultimately endorsing.

Anonymous lady . . .

You come across as a redneck when one reads your words.

Anonymous lady it seems that you do not want to read the posts which have listed the Americans atrocities all over the world.

  I also do not live in the U.S. so do not generalize.  

Read the items listed.  No need to repeat them again.

Iranians can survive and do well anywhere in the world.  Many of them don’t know it and are stuck in the U.S.  I suggest to them to come to other countries and see the difference for themselves.

 By the way, AIPAC not only controls your elected officials, but I see it has influenced people such as yourself, yeh right… you have free media.  You do not know what free media is until you listen to sources other than Fox, ABC, and the like.

fisherman

oh lord... you've not been reading me at all, have you?  LOL.  please don't just follow the attack just "because".  i have NO problem acknowledging the "cluster" that our country is in right now.  i dont and won't hide behind blind patriotism.  i've never said or implied that patriotism is turning the other check.  i'm fully aware that the US has it's share of faults.  you say i've never objected to... etc. etc.  say what!!!!  again, go back and read me.  my checking account, my savings account and my retirement are almost non-existent.  i can't tell you how many times i've raged against the bullshit of wall street. 

you're being unfair and judgemental without any sense of who i am or what i've said.  cherry picking a word here and there is simply unfair.

i'm not going to back off anything i've said because i believe it to be true.  i keep asking for proof of your allegations and all i get is MORE talk about how you think i feel.

quite frankly.  it's the least of my concerns.  i'm concerned about my job security.  i'm concerned about my future.  i'm concerned about my son's future. 

there is only ONE iranian whose opinion matters to me.  and that is the opinion of my husband.  he knows me, you don't.  his family and friends know me, you don't.  he knows what efforts i make, you don't. 

he knows the depth of my interest in... respect for... and desire to be part of... the iranian culture.

but hear this.  if you can't back up what you say, don't say anything at all. 

where is dariush... and judge judy and other alter egos?  where is the proof?  why aren't they supporting their claims? 

why aren't you acknowledging the many times i've spoken out against idiots like "goback".  hmmm... is it because it doesn't suit your agenda?

just curious.  :-)

Calm down, please...

Mr. Kashani can speak for himself and defend his position, but this is my take from his article. There are basically two points in his post:

1-      Blind anti-americanism

I see this as demonization of American’s system of government because of certain policies of a given administration, without elaborating on the circumstances or environment that has led to those policies. This anti-americanism is blind to the foundation of American democracy and its constitution. The constitution that grants humans of every race, religion, age and gender anywhere around the globe the dignity of freedom and protection of their god given rights. That same constitution provides for defense of those freedoms and rights.

It is blind anti-americanism if you refer to Hiroshima without reference to Purl-harbor, or talk about torture, secret prison or war in Afghanestan without referring to the horror of 9/11.

Criticizing actions of a government is entirely different from being anti-government. The constitution provides for free criticism of the government’s actions. After all, a true democratic government is by the people, for the people and should represent the will of the people.  However, IMHO, a criticism is only legitimate when it’s accompanied by and offers alternative action(s).

2-      IRI’s neglect of democratic values

The second point of Mr. Kashani’s article (IMHO) was to document IRI’s ignorance of democratic values cherished by the constitution of US. Values such as Human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of relgion, equal rights, etc….whether we agree or disagree with how he tries to measure the degree of such violations (i.e. using rankings by some biased or unbiased group) is irrelevant. The fact is that violations of those values by IRI is undeniable.

The opinion that the liberal media (directly or indirectly) has helped fuel the anti-american sentiment and make it more fashionable, is an opinion that I also share. I also find it dishonest, demonizing (not criticizing), the system of government that I, on my own free will have chosen to take advantage of all the positives it has to offer. I find it disgraceful.

I don't see problems with the article

Perhaps the misconception is that some people think that governments actions are direct result of the people's feelings. It is not so.

Iran is ranked low in all those areas and we need to realize and work on it. Does the US have many internal issues? Yes, but that's not related to Iran. Mutually exclusive events.

We can link the foreign policies and the results, and conclude that therefore this is not an isolated incident and needs to be studied based on the linkage.

I think some people have been way out of line to attack some of the users of this site. It's illogical and useless.

My understanding is that the article is not saying the people of those countries hate the US, which I am certain it's not the case, but the government. That's not invalid.

Whatever the reason, there are many differences with ideologies forming around the globe.Perhaps the more useful and informative approach would be to analyze why that is.

Anonymous Fish

You say: "what DOES piss me off is hypocrisy and double standards"

Then why aren't you objecting to our government's double standards? They trample our consititution, yet you never object to things like:

-Maydoff under house arrest for stealing 50 billion dollars of american tax payers money
-Our social security and medicare funds got routed to fund a war designed to fill the pockets of Texas / wall street elite. Then when mullah's got in the way to protect their region, they automatically get labeled as terrorists.
-Tax payers paying for wall street bankers country club memberships and stripper shows doesn't bother you?
-People's retirement money vanishing is simply OK? (do you realize that money just doesn't evaporate. A dollar spend is a dollar gained) Why don't ever ask where that money went?

Are you aware that over 37 million americans live in poverty? How come you don't question Bush's killing of a million innocent people under the notion of "Be free or we'll kill you so you can have freedom"? Why DON'T you get pissed off of our government's hipocracy? What about the gencides in Africa or Olmert slaughtering of 1300 innocent civilisan in Palestine for the sole purpose of rallying naive constituents in inorder to prop up Netenyahoo standing in the political race as a sole measure to promote and maintain a hawkish control there. Are they less human than you and I?

You talk about women's rights in Iran, yet I doubt you've really gaged the aptitute and political minset of a persian woman. Rest assured, they are the mothers of their son's and they'll know how to protect their right far better than you and I ever will.

I don't see you object to hipocracy of our society. Do you think it's unamerican for us to hold our officials accountable? Is it unamerican to demand for change and integrity to be restored back to the constitution that our nations founding fathers intended for us.

Patrotism doesn't mean you put your head in the sand (like farhad kashani) and follow the guy behind the mic without using your talent and judgement. What's unamerican is to randomly follow whatever they put in front you or blow the horn of bunch of pirates that have dragged our economy for the benefit of their own waistful and lavish lifestyles.

pissed off?

no my friend.  not hardly.  it would take much more than babbling on iranian.com to piss me off.  what DOES piss me off is hypocrisy and double standards.  and you've done absolutely nothing to disprove anything i've said.

i keep asking... what... where... when... and to whom?  you keep coming back with more useless ranting.  you seem to think you know how i feel... about what?  iran?  you know nothing.  you think because i see her faults and comment on them, that i'm racist?  i've seen iranians say worse things...lol. 

again, double standards.  do as i say, not as i do...

dude... you can't read THE lines, much less between them. 

hate monger?  again, HOW. 

there's a saying... your lion's mouth is overloading your hummingbird ass.  in other words... you talk big but when push comes to shove, you've got nothing to back it up.

i'm still waiting for some reasonable discussion... some justification for your claims. 

anonymous fish See how pissed you get

When you feel that you have been represented unfairly. That's Iranians on the US media on a daily basis. And sites like this that you feed your superiority on.

I thought your husband is Iranian? With that level of information that you seem to have about Iran, and the way that I have read between the lines about your feeling towards Iran, something is not right. I knew it the moment I read some of your comments that how exactly you feel. Glad we got that established, so no masks.

You are as nationalistic, hate monger and righteous against Iranians and Muslims that you claim they are against you. So tit for tat. I don't live in your country and don't owe you or anyone anything. So I am free as a bird.

Speaking of bird, it might be good for you to get out of your southern cage and travel the lands where you seem to have a totally wrong view about.

You and some other foreigners don't seem to have come here to exchange, but to impose. Good luck with that.

Iranians certainly have much better view and understanding about the US than the US citizens have to Iran and the region. Do people get the difference between Iran and Iraq yet? Or what's the f*$Ing difference, right? they are all same.

Your first concern seemed to have been the state of Israel? Have you thought about why is that?

**Brainwashin**media

How many Iranian regime has killed in the last 30 years, and how many Americans have killed in the same period. Human life, not nationality! Get it? What's evil?

So don't act pure and put something down when there are faults all around the globe. It's like a white man goes to a black neighborhood and makes the "N" word jokes. Black can do it but not a white, why? Same reason here. You don't know enough about the culture.

The only hope that you can have is that within your life time, Israelis leave their grip from the American affairs. So maybe you need to go to your "friendly" sites, where these guys feed from, where you think they "love" the Americans and figure the truth for yourself.

Free: I didn't know JJ was a

Free:

I didn't know JJ was a Congressman or a Senator who could legislate American laws?

What am I missing?

alter egos...

exactly WHAT is the argument? 

what "position" am i supposed to state and explain?

what insult and to whom?  please be specific and not "generalize" as you pointed out to me.

show a little grace?  you're joking, right?  be greatful?  for what?  for the innuendos that you and your alter egos continue to spread, on and behind the scenes?  do you think i'm not aware of YOUR agenda? 

also, if i may... since when did it become a one-way street where YOU get to point out my flaws?  and yet, i'm "insulting" you when i point out yours.

look up hypocrisy and double standards in the dictionary.  it should be very enlightening.

i'm very open and receptive to a civil discussion on this matter.  if you can come back and make any sense... or prove your point in any way.  i look forward to hearing more.  thanks.

Hmmm?

And programmer Craig, if some of these guys disclose their identity,
you'll be intimitated and over shadowed by their stature

I'm not easily intimidated, and I don't react well to threats.

so just
reduce the rehtoric and stick with the argument. It will eventually
enlighten your point of view.

Argument? There's no argument going on in here, just a bunch of biotted ranting, which I made a conscious decision not to particpate in. But thanks for trying to drag me into it anyway... I appreciate your concern for my well being :D

undamentalist islamists,

undamentalist islamists, like Daryush, Xerxes, Dr. M.d. (i.e.,supporters of the blood soaked IRI) while taking advantage of lawfulness of
democratic societies, have expanded their propaganda network to promote their own cause by talking about humanitarian values in general terms and ignoring the fact that those values can never be implemented under religious laws. Living Conditions in islamic nations and the treatment of citizens in those countries where laws are taken or linked with religion, is the most obvious reason for incompatibility of values in
modern society and islamic or any other religious laws