daveman said —
“And of course, Iran would NEVER lie.”
Is that supposed to be ...
satire?
Of course the Iranian theocratic regime can lie. They lie all the time! So does our government, by the way.
The goal of all my comments is to put what they say and what both sides do into
context. Do you think the Iranian regime is “suicidal” ... as others have said? Or are they desperately trying to survive, to show the U.S. they are really not ”paper tigers” even though they lack nuclear weapons? ... even if they lack dozens of military bases surrounding the USA!
You can’t get over American diplomats and CIA men held by revolutionary students 40 years ago? Well, guess what? They haven’t gotten over the war we encouraged Saddam Hussein to wage against them, and the chemical weapons used against their soldiers, and the bombs that fell on their cities, a war that lasted almost a decade — followed by war sanctions. We are an existential threat to them, as we were to the regimes and peoples of Libya, Syria and Iraq.