Messages to Americans from Tehran University: Part Four

•   "You think we're scary? Look in the mirror!
• "Iran has borders with 14 countries, and we haven't invaded one single other country since 1750. Iran is not a warmonger. We're a lot more stable than your ally Pakistan, and much less of a threat to peace.
• "Since 1974 Iran's policy has been a nuclear-free Middle East. U.S. opposition is what turned nuclear power into a matter of national pride. And even now, we're willing to be monitored. We're just demanding fair and equal treatment, like any other nation on earth.
• "America projected that it would earn $13.2 billion from sales of weapons in 2006, but it went to $$29.1 billion. Who do you sell to? Jordan, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Iraq. Our neighbors. It seems to me that the USA wants to create tensions and mobilize public opinion to sell weapons.
• "America accounts for 50% of the world's arms sales. And it's public knowledge that all those companies have expensive lobbyists in Washington who help drive policy. Look at the connections. Lockheed-Martin, Haliburton, Cheney. There are manipulators behind the scenes. And your president has the nerve to call us an "axis of evil"?
• "The success of your war industry threatens to kill my children. Do you know what my son asked me last week? He was listening to a news broadcast about recent statements by America at the U.N. and whether it was a prelude to war. He's 8 years old. He asked me, "Daddy, are they going to kill all of us?"

Comments

[Ashkan]

Interesting messages. Very useful to hear the voice from other side of the argument as opposed to only the western view which we hear in media in west all the time.

I think the bottom line is that countries like UK and US still feel they are superior to others and have the right to decide for other nations what system of government they should have. And also they do everything it takes to crush any nation that don't agree with their point of view.