I'd rather be at peace with Iran then at war with it...We need to spend money on America.
I agree with you ! I'd rather be at peace with IRAN! NO question.
BUT that's going to be hard to do when YOU, I and the rest of the world WANT PEACE with IRAN BUT........
Khamenei told a crowd in Tehran that Iran would not capitulate to Western demands.
When the crowd started shouting,
“Death to America,” the ayatollah responded: “
Of course yes, death to America, because America is the original source of this pressure.
See Iran's religious leaders see the ONLY conclusion regarding the Iran relationship with USA is as they say "apocalyptic mindset"...i.e. it is a foregone, and total objective to fulfill their prophecies that the USA be destroyed....
Professor Bernard Lewis, in 2009,
said on the question of Iran's nuclear weapon, "For most of the Iranian leadership MAD would work as a deterrent, but for Ahmadinejad and his group with their apocalyptic mindset, mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent, it's an inducement."
True, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is no longer the Iranian president, and the current president, Hassan Rouhani is often deemed by the west a pragmatist and a reformer, but he has
openly bragged about hoodwinking the United States in the past.
Further, the apocalyptic mindset is not something unique to Ahmadinejad and his followers
. It has deep roots in Shi'ite belief. That -- plus raw superstition, a large measure of religious fanaticism, and a cult of martyrdom -- makes Iran the most dangerous country on the planet today.
Iran's Supreme Leader: "Death to America"