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2018-07-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Why Iran returned empty-handed from Vienna
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Posted by Fred 2018-07-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 provide verifiable and applicable commitments, instead of confusing and deceiving pledges

Right. Commitments - that's the European's job. Deceiving pledges are the Iranian's job.
Posted by Bobby 2018-07-11 09:36||   2018-07-11 09:36|| Front Page Top

#2 It is sad. I remember the Shah's Iran of 1969. Happy people, throngs in the markets, apparently wealthy enough, well dressed, beautiful, polite and friendly. I neither saw nor heard of any strife or unhappiness. It is sad.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-07-11 14:29||   2018-07-11 14:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Ref #2: I recall similar reporting from Army mobile training teams deployed to Iran.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-11 15:21||   2018-07-11 15:21|| Front Page Top

#4 The Ayatollahs rule wasn't imposed from outside ==> not all Iranians were happy.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-11 15:32||   2018-07-11 15:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Knew a few Iranians in '67-'68. Upper middle-class / upperclass American college students.

Nice guys who had too much money for their owwn good, Didn't think highly of the Savak however.
Posted by AlanC 2018-07-11 16:41||   2018-07-11 16:41|| Front Page Top

#6 #4: True.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-07-11 17:21||   2018-07-11 17:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Outside Tehran and other population centers, the rubes were easily recruited
Posted by Frank G 2018-07-11 20:15||   2018-07-11 20:15|| Front Page Top

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