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To: michael97123 who wrote (246454)	10/24/2007 12:21:36 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) of 281500

We need to understand that from Iran's perspective, we have much more Iranian blood on our hands than they have US blood on theirs. The CIA was instrumental in overthrowing the fledgling Iranian democracy in the early 50s and installing the Shah. From an Iranian perspective the Shah's repression was made in the USA: en.wikipedia.org The Islamic republic would never have happened, if Iranian democracy was allowed to develop in the 1950s -- it seems almost all post-WWII US interventions abroad result in disastrous unintended consequences sooner or later. No wonder that even Iranians that hate the Islamic republic, view the US with suspicion, consider the US at least partially responsible for the Khomeini revolution, and support the Islamic republic's pursuit of nuclear power. Saddam's Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s resulted in another Iranian river of blood for which Iranians consider the US partially responsible. Saddam was our good buddy then, and we advanced billions of food credits, which he used to purchase arms and manufacture poison gas that killed 700,000 Iranians. en.wikipedia.org

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