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Old 06-24-2009, 12:11 AM   #164
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Originally Posted by jammies View Post
Iranians in general don't like America and it has nothing to do with anything an Ayatollah tells them. They have the history of the US supporting a tyrant that oppressed them, plus the recent invasion of a neighboring country with little justification to give them real and understandable reasons to distrust American foreign policy.
It also didn't help that the U.S. armed and supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran/Iraq war... including supplying him with intelligence for using chemical warfare on Iran.
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