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why not? even israel is trusted with 200 nukes and a radical zionist regime.
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Their Radical Zionist Regime™ is contained within a democratic framework. So the Radical Zionist Regime™ cant do anything without the consent of the Israeli people.
The same is not true of Iran. That is why I don't trust them with nukes.
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Him: what suggestions would you have for Obama if he is placed in the position to move forward with those discussions?
I suggest him to see iran as a important power in region, not a weak country full of terrorists. he should discuss at least these issues:
1- letting Iranian people decide about internal affairs.
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I am all in favor of that, and I am sure he is too. Let me know when the Iranian People have control of their internal affairs.
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4- inviting iranian elites to us or us elites to iran and having conferences, seminars, exchange ideas and helping each other.
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By "elites" do you mean elected representatives? Please clarify.
I'm not sure how we can negotiate with the Iranian People if we cant talk to them or their elected representatives. All we can do right now is talk to the oligarchy that currently has power over them.
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5- sanctions. us has almost destroyed iran by sanctions.
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The purpose of the sanctions is to force Iran to cease it's pursuit of nuclear weapons. So they can end the sanctions whenever they want. They have the initiative.
Imposing sanctions is bad. Allowing Iran to gain nukes is worse. I will take "bad" over "worse".
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this will end the enmity.
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Then enmity cannot end at this time.
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iran and us can be good allies.
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Not until their government becomes a democracy. We will never really trust them until that happens.
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everything started from when us supported the dictator Shah and denied people's revolution.
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For which I am openly critical of my government. I fully agree we were wrong to do that. We should have known better than to support a non-democracy.
As a neocon, I can no tolerance for non-democracies. But neocons were not in power at that time. Paleocons were. And they didn't have a problem supporting a friendly dictatorship.
So we are cleaning up the mess they made. But supporting Irans current government will lead to similar problems. It will not clean up the mess, it will make the mess bigger.