SOURCES and NOTES - Narration - Pt.4, So What? Thoughts

And surely you wouldn’t want anything to happen to her!!

COMMENT: This Iranian university student we met in Tehran was not only a charmer, but not-at-all pro-regime. The most pro-reform and pro-democracy demographic in Iran is women, young, and educated. North Tehran is also ground zero anti-regime territory. This was filmed in far north Tehran.

Issue of the Hostage Crisis

So what can you say to the neocon who argues that
If the issue is the injustice of the 1953 coup and Shah’s dictatorship,
then the solution to bad relations is justice. But if the issue is spite, hatred, domination … then fair play can’t really help better relations with Iran.
How can anything - except maybe force?

COMMENT: According to Middle East Expert William R.Polk: “One is the hostage issue at the American embassy [in Tehran] which has left a very deep and still raw scar on American public opinion. Throughout America people still mention that.”

SOURCE: Middle East Expert William R.Polk on United States foreign policy toward Iran interviewed by Ali Fathollah-Nejad at http://www.juancole.com/]