source: http://www1.irna.ir/en/news/view/lin...0432163709.htm

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They are not supporting a candidate b/c as he rightly pointed out it is not their place to push forward a candidate. They also know whoever they openly support will lose.

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Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too
You may bury my body, down by the highway side,
so my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride.

then they should actively and openly support McCain!

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Just out of curiousity what are your opinions on your government's policy towards the West & Israel and also your domestic Nuclear program?

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I'll tell you this no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too
You may bury my body, down by the highway side,
so my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride.

Nuclear Program:

I think we need to get our rights here. just because if we don't, we can't have the other rights and we'll be forced to depend on powerful nations' ideas about Iran, simply we lose our independence. nuclear program is not an important issue here, but independence is.

Western Countries:

I support communicating and being friendly with western countries, including USA. this situation we're in, only harms both sides. I also support open high-level talks with US to solve the issues. I never got harmed by communicating, personally.

Israel:

I believe they can live somewhere else in the world peacefully. being in totally islamic area like middle east with radical muslim population is just ridiculous for radical jews. they're cats and dogs. they won't ever stop. I don't agree with my government in this issue, and I vote for my idea next elections.
I try to avoid buying stuff from companies that support israel by their money. I think this is the peaceful way, and I act like I think.

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Very interesting, but I disagree with you on the Israeli issue. I think like you say all problems can be sorted out if everyone talks, because ignorance leads to fear, fear to anger and anger to people dieing.

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I'll tell you this no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too
You may bury my body, down by the highway side,
so my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride.

I would like to jump in for a second. Does anyone here know what the Iran-Contra Affair is?
Look up some background on it and you will find a few questions the middle east has toward the US.

While the hostage situation in Iran from 1979 was looming and the US had severed ties with Iran, we continued to indirectly sell them weapons used against Iraq. We supplied Israel with weapons and relations. Israel, in turn, sold weapons to Iran...

Now we want to disarm Iran, see the pattern developing...

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Welcome Perham

As for "not picking a candidate" statements in there lean away from one candidate. I suppose the point of the article is that they don't have a preference between Hillary and Obama?

And sorry about the nuclear thing. In times past the US supported an Iranian nuke program. But currently we're pretty sure you'd misuse nukes. Either handing them off to terrorists, nuking Israel, or sending in ground forces or flagrantly Iranian guerrillas to Iraq/Israel/whatever and then using the threat of nukes to try and keep the rest of the world from stopping you.

Obviously I can understand why you want them, but the West would be fools to let you have them.

On that note does anybody in Iran actually believe that your nuke program isn't going to be used to produce nuclear weapons? Or is it understood there as here that you government has to say that, but in reality it's about the warheads.

thanks.

sure it isn't going to produce weapons. almost all of us are against such thing. we are accusing other nations for having nukes. for example pakistan, if a radical islamic government overthrow mosharaf, you can't stand consequences.

what I meant was peaceful nuclear devices to produce energy for our country. if we have incomplete cycle to produce power, it's a great chance that we can't do it. because all the world will decline to give Iran what he needs when he needs the most. as they did before, and they're doing now by sanctions.

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Seriously? What is the line for why you need nuclear power plants when you're sitting on top of so much oil? Is it really worth the sanctions much of the world will place on you if your reasons were purely economic?


And yes we worry about Pakistan, but they aren't as major a player.