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All through the 80s, the Iranians sponsored terrorism. They had terrorist training camps. They were behind the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon.Although the Carter situation is different because Iranians weren't actively engaged in acts of terror at the time.
They bombed our embassy in Kuwait in 1983, killing five people. They bombed our embassy in Beirut in the same year, klling 62 people.
The financed and supplied Hamas and Hezbollah.
They had a long list of terrorist incidents to their credit.
And Reagan still decided to let in over 11,000 Iranian refugees, the largest refugee population of that period.
He didn't ban all Iranians "just to be safe". He didn't have the vetting abilities we have today at his disposal, either.
Reagan had balls. I don't know who these castrated people are today who call themselves Republicans.
Times are different today. Although I am for Trump's call to ban Muslim immigration, Iranians that escaped Iran in 1979 were mostly minorities, and secular and educated who wanted no part of the Islamist revolution. It is now over 30 years and they have all assimilated very well and contributed greatly to American societies.
Yes Iran is a terrorist regime but do not lump the people in with the govt. Over 90% of Iranians want a regime change.