I'm pretty sure that short-term memory and/or amnesia has erased the fact that Iran was moving toward democratization and reform in 2000 and 2001 and even for a while after the terrorist attacks of September 11 th , 2001 and actually offered assistance against the Taliban and Al Qaeda (Iranians are Shia and Persian, not Sunni and Arab); nonetheless, since Iran has been the obsession of the neocons (see: PNAC /Shah of Iran/CIA/British Petroleum/MI6, ad nausea) for the last 50 years or more, it was no matter. Even with hours and hours of footage of average Iranian citizens offering their heartfelt condolences, and despite back channel offers of help, they were to be lumped in with the 9/11 crazy nut bag fundamentalist nihilists anyway. Which has slowly evolved into one of the greatest strategic fuck ups in human history, perhaps only short of Germany's Eastern Front or Napoleon and the same folly (funny, how warmonger's think they can do the same thing, over and over agai...
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